Forestry

An applied research project being undertaken at Collège Boréal could enhance the way regreening is done in Sudbury , while creating opportunities for value-added products for the North’s forestry companies.

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Louisiana-Pacific (LP), a leading U.S. wood products giant, has acquired Ainsworth Lumber in a $1.1-billion deal. Vancouver-based Ainsworth runs an oriented strand board (OSB) mill in Barwick, near Fort Frances in northwestern Ontario.

While Ken Doupe felt the effects of the decline in the forest industry five years ago on his logging company, he wasn’t quite ready to throw in the towel.

The Ontario government has introduced more industry-friendly rules coming from the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) to “simplify” and “streamline” provincial protection for species at risk.

Construction crews are rebuilding what fire destroyed 18 months ago at a Timmins sawmill.

All signs look positive for a U.S. brownfield redeveloper to take over an abandoned pulp mill in northwestern Ontario. The sale of the former Marathon Pulp mill from Tembec to Illinois-based Green Investment Group Inc.

Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) announced it has reached a deal with Resolute Forest Products to restart a Fort Frances paper machine this summer. A CEP news release said Locals 92 and 306 reached an agreement to man the mill's No.

Collège Boréal and EACOM Timber Corp. ’s Nairn Centre sawmill are collaborating on the school’s first applied research project on the analysis and use of wooden ash produced by the forest industry as charcoal for agricultural use (biochar).

Forestry icon Frank Dottori is getting into the lumber business by reopening a former Domtar sawmill in White River.