Forestry

Five years after it was mothballed, EACOM’s sawmill in Ear Falls in northwestern Ontario fired up for production in early August. “Now is the time to start producing some wood,” said general manager Harrison Wicks.

Mat Leitch is applying some mining industry-like analytics to determine the real value of the wood resource base in northwestern Ontario.

Budding wood pellet producer Rentech Inc. is counting on a new Quebec City marine terminal to be an important logistical cornerstone of its Wawa operation.

Shuniah Forest Products of Thunder Bay was named a two-time winner at the Workplace Safety North awards dinner and annual general meeting held in North Bay, Sept. 17.

A shuttered former Tembec sawmill in Mattawa has been sold to a southern Ontario green-tech startup company.

The provincial government and Ontario Power Generation announced Sept. 10 that the former coal-burning Atikokan Generating Station is now producing electricity using wood pellet fuel.

Unifor has reached a long-term contract with Kenora Forests Products to restart sawmill operations by the beginning of 2015.

Resolute Forest Products has been fined $55,000 after a worker was injured at its Fort Frances paper mill in 2012. The company pleaded guilty in a Provincial Offences Court in Fort Frances, July 25.

A British Columbia entrepreneur, who makes award-winning compostable wooden cutlery, said he wants to expand his presence in northwestern Ontario.

Eacom's sawmill in Timmins is operational once again after a 2012 fire caused $20 million in damage and the company was forced to rebuild.