Forestry

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.

A July 4 fire caused damage to Eacom ’s Timmins sawmill. Firefighters responded to a call about a blaze at the property just before 2 p.m. on Friday.

Resolute Forest Products announced on June 23 of the launch of a new research and development joint venture with Germany’s Mercer International, the world’s largest maker of NBSK market pulp.

Montreal’s Resolute Forest Products are delighted with employee support for the renewal of collective agreements in Canada.

A new frontrunner has emerged as a potential purchaser of the former Marathon Pulp mill in northwestern Ontario. Reliance Developments Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Tembec to acquire the shuttered mill and its lakeside property.

The Ontario Forest Industries Association (OFIA) intends to make an election issue out of the Wynne government’s decision to make drastic cuts to a Crown forest roads funding program.

Montreal’s Resolute Forest Products made a not-so-shocking decision this week to permanently close its mothballed Fort Frances pulp and paper mill.

The Ontario Forest Industries Association (OFIA) is congratulating Thunder Bay -Atikokan MPP Bill Mauro on his cabinet appointment as the new minister of municipal affairs.