Forestry

Almost five years into his tenure as chairman of Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation (NFMC), Daryl Skworchinski still maintains it’s the right concept to manage the flow of Crown fibre on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

Columbia Forest Products announced that the installation of a new $15-million lathe line at its Hearst mill is now complete.

A forestry workers union head said there’s a plethora of well-paying mill jobs to be had in northwestern Ontario, but many employers are struggling to find skilled jobs to fill them.

When True North Hardwood Plywood closed in 2013, 240 people lost their jobs and Cochrane lost one of its biggest economic generators.

A New Liskeard-headquartered forest management company is close to commercializing a proprietary remote sensing technology to calculate forest inventories.

The operators of a Sioux Lookout area sawmill were fined $48,000 after a worker’s arm was crushed in a 2013 industrial accident.

The long-awaited restart of Kenora Forest Products received a cash injection courtesy from Ottawa.

Frank Dottori has lofty expectations for White River Forest Products. The sawmill, located halfway between Sault Ste.

The long-awaited restart of Kenora Forest Products received a cash injection courtesy of the federal government.

By the time it’s completed in early 2016, the second phase of Laurentian University’s School of Architecture will serve as a solid example for students of what can be achieved with wood.