Forestry

Ever the workaholic, Frank Dottori spent no more than two years in retirement from Tembec before vaulting into the position of managing director of GreenField Ethanol’s cellulosic ethanol division.

With promises of a new hotel and lumber mill on the horizon, Smooth Rock Falls officials are diversifying further with a new focus the green energy development.

A Sault Ste. Marie forest management company is finally going to market with an environmentally-friendly injectable insecticide to save ash trees in southwestern Ontario.

While some voices of dissent emerged from northwestern Ontario following the recent release of Dr. Robert Rosehart’s economic solutions report, the general consensus was one of support.

A Sault Ste. Marie mill operator calls the Ontario government's decision to appeal an Ontario Superior Court judge's ruling "obscene" and accuses Queen's Park of trying to put him out of business.

A Wawa entrepreneur who developed an innovative wood pelletizing machine has sold his technology to a southern Ontario manufacturer who is taking his invention to a world market.

Results from the wrapped-up biomass estimation study indicates Opasatika has the potential to be “the biomass capital of Canada.

The long-awaited plan to re-start the shuttered Cascades mill in Thunder Bay under new ownership has been finalized.

A recent Ontario government decision to change its paper procurement policy does little more than threaten an already volatile forestry industry, according to Jamie Lim, president of the Ontario Forest Industries Association (OFIA).

While stories of closures continue, many companies are examining ways to reinvent themselves to be part of the new forestry sector.