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“PowerWood’s expansion is a great example of how the B.C. forest industry is transforming from a sector focused on high volume to a sector focused on high value,” said B.C. Minister of Forests Katrine Conroy at the grand opening.
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The new FireFringe app detects and maps forest fires and hotspots across the country. It is now available for free to Canadian firefighters, forestry managers, emergency managers, municipalities, the media and the public to see – in near real time – where fires are blazing.
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Teal Jones announced on Monday, July 12, that it will donate 500,000 board feet of lumber to Lytton, B.C., and Lytton First Nation to help with rebuilding efforts, after the community was destroyed by a wildfire.
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Some big changes are happening in Bolton, Ont. In August 2020, Weston Forest acquired Monterra Lumber Mills, a remanufacturing facility that has been a staple in the community for more than 30 years. Since then, the company has been modernizing the mill to boost production capacity in order to meet increased demand.
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The Camp Assault Mitigation Project (CAMP), has been giving presentations to tree planting companies on sexual harassment and assault, and conducting anonymous surveys to ask members of the industry about their experience with sexual harassment and assault. Britt White explains what has been done so far to address this issue.
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Dale Paterson, chair of Northern Pulp’s environmental liaison committee (ELC), presented the company’s roadmap to the forestry industry during a webinar that drew over 200 registrants. He unveiled a $350-million plan for the shuttered kraft pulp mill – a considerably higher investment than the company’s rejected 2019 proposal for a $150-million treatment facility.
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Canfor is curtailing approximately 115 million board feet of production capacity at its Canadian sawmills during the third quarter of 2021 due to the significant supply chain challenges and transportation backlog in Western Canada as a result of the extreme wildfire conditions.
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The new operation will incorporate the full spectrum of BID’s best-in-class wood processing technologies including equipment, software, automation systems, Artificial Intelligence-enabled optimization, and plant-wide Industry 4.0 solution, Oper8.
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Date: Sept. 16, 2021
Location: www.woodbusiness.ca
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Date: June 2-4, 2022
Location: Jonkoping, Sweden
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Date: Sept. 22-24, 2022
Location: Ottawa/Gatineau
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