Forestry

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is supporting the free trade agreement reached between Canada and Korea.

A Thunder Bay natural resource consulting firm is taking to the skies with the purchase of its first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for aerial imaging and mapping applications.

The potential American buyers of the former Marathon Pulp mill have missed a critical deadline to close the sale of the contaminated property from Tembec. A final Jan.

Close to a million hectares of the Lake Nipigon Forest in northwestern Ontario is now certified to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standard.

Federal funding of $54.5 million will go to six projects in Northern Ontario, which the government says will help sustain jobs and advance the transformation of the forest sector.

The Ministry of Natural Resources has issued a forest resource processing facility licence to Rentech, to support the company in its conversion of a former oriented strandboard in Wawa to pellet production.

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is calling on Ottawa to “renew and replenish” the Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) program to help the struggling sector develop innovative technologies.

Resolute Forest Products will permanently shutting down a paper machine in Iroquois Falls in six months. The machine shutdown will impact 70 workers, but the northeastern Ontario mill will continue to make newsprint on its remaining machine.

The new owners of Terrace Bay's pulp mill say the conversion of the northwestern Ontario plant appears to remain on schedule to begin next year.

The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) have raised concerns about the lack of progress on agreements between environmental groups and Northern Ontario's forestry sector.