wood products

Northern Ontario Business - Vol. 24 Nbr. 6, April 2004

China's wood products flooding market.

News - Timwood AB

Northern Ontario Business - Vol. 23 Nbr. 13, November 2003

Lacasse Fine Wood Products Inc. Company of the year (1-15 employees).

Celebrating Excellence - Lacasse Fine Wood Products Inc.

Canadian-American Public Policy - Nbr. 2000, July 2000

Should the log and wood products trade be regulated in the (U.S.) northeastern borderlands?

I. INTRODUCTION With its periodic trade disputes over potatoes, fishery products, logs and lumber, and woods labor, the ......(5) Wood from northeastern U.S. forests provides a ...... wood. Some U.S. paper mills and biomass power plants ...

Canada Law Articles in English - (October 22, 2009)

Credits For Long Lived Wood Products? Will They Be Available To A Forestry Producer Near You?

Mr Marc Babinski - Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Over the last few weeks a new publicity campaign by the Coalition Bois Québec has been promoting the environmental benefits of the use of wood in construction, specifically for its ...... Essentially, using wood in construction is a way of sequestering carbon which would otherwise have released carbon into the atmosphere when the wood is burned. Moreover, the greenhouse gases that ...

Winnipeg Free Press - July 08, 2007

Some Wood Products Greener Than Others

The home goods industry has become just as enamoured with green buzzwords as the food and fashion worlds have, and "sustainable wood" is one of the most common marketing cries. (Crate and Barrel makes that particular sofa for Earth out of not just wood that is certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative but also from "revolutionary, bio-based materials that are environmentally renewable.") "Whether it's a whole building or parts of a building, or wood is used from one piece of furniture ...

Winnipeg Free Press - March 14, 2008

Business Watch

Leaders in the troubled North American forestry industry gathered Thursday to push for wood products as a more environmentally friendly way to build homes and said as long as people buy carbon-neutral products from regulated markets the industry can thrive. OTTAWA -- With the subprime contagion spreading around the world, Canadians who hoped their homes would be immune from the carnage are wrong, says financial author and MP Garth Turner. Once a green-technology darling but relegated to penny...

Winnipeg Free Press - November 30, 2007

Abitibibowater to Close Mills

"Over the next three months, the company will also be conducting an indepth review of its wood products business with the objective of selling non-core assets, consolidating facilities where appropriate and curtailing or closing non-contributing operations," added chairman John Weaver. On Thursday, the company said it is now targeting $375 million in "synergies" and plans to raise $500 million from the sale of assets. Dividends to shareholders are also suspended to conserve cash. There will b...

Winnipeg Free Press - October 12, 2006

Domtar Closing Four Mills, Laying Off 950 Workers

"Substantially higher procurement and processing costs for sawlogs have impacted the competitive position of our sawmills in recent years... (and) the slowdown in demand has exerted considerable downward pressure on selling prices of wood products in recent months," Domtar executive vice-president Richard Garneau said in a statement. "We know there is a crisis in the forestry industry," [Raymond Bachand] said. "We have seen the temporary closings of plants come one after another. Yet it's cle...

Canada Gazette, May 13, 1998

Quebec Wood Produders' Levies (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order

Part II - Official regulations

Vol. 132, No. 10 — May 13, 1998 Registration SOR/98-277 1 May, 1998 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING Quebec Wood Producers' Levies (...... 1983-2885 of September 22, 1983 , hereby makes the annexed Quebec Wood Producers' Levies (Interprovincial and Export ...