Forestry

Eacom Timber's Ear Falls sawmill in northwestern Ontario will restart next spring with a new long-term labour in hand. Unifor announced Oct.

The Olav Haavaldsrud Timber Company has opened a 10-megawatt cogeneration plant in Hornepayne .

In the fall of 2010, KBM Resources had a boneyard of forestry equipment sitting in the weeds behind its Mooney Avenue offices in Thunder Bay .

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.