Forestry

St. Marys Paper Corp. has emerged one of the Northern Ontario's forest industry survivors. With new local ownership in place, the once-bankrupt Sault Ste. Marie super calender mill resumed full production on all three paper machines in early August.

A northeastern Ontario mill town will be the epi-centre of a movement to commercially harvest the wealth of Northern Ontario’s alternative bio-products on a regional scale. With $1.

Plantation-grown willow and poplar crops may be the future feedstock for 'green' power generation in the North.

Though the 2005 withdrawal of Tembec from the local economy is still a fresh wound for many in Smooth Rock Falls, a Quebec-based company’s plans for an independent $7.2 million value-added cedar facility are a healing salve, the mayor says.

Superior Laminated Lumber Corp. (SLLCS) is now on its way to building a $70 million laminated veneer lumber (LVL) mill in Atikokan, after the province announced the conditional allocation of 168,000-cubic metres of Crown white birch to the company.

What better place to brainstorm on value-added forestry opportunities than in the thick of Northern Ontario’s woods.

Sault Ste. Marie hardwood producer Boniferro Mill Works resumed full production in late May after cash flow problems and weak markets forced management into a three-week shutdown. With slumping U. S.

The new local owners of St. Marys Paper have secured $43 million in private financing and were expecting production of super calendar paper to resume by late June. After a two-month shutdown at the 100-year-old Sault Ste.

With the forestry industry reeling from the high cost of energy, fibre and a strong dollar, a hidden cost of remaining competitive is the need to upgrade operational infrastructure.

As one of many forestry communities seeking to emerge from the pall hanging over the pulp and paper industry, Hearst has taken its first step towards a new economy with the first stage of its Bio-Com project.