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Dr. Derek Gray, holder of the NSERC/FPInnovations Industrial Research Chair at McGill University, is the 2013 Marcus Wallenberg Prize (MWP) recipient, it was announced at the FIBRE Network research conference. Dr. Gray receives the...
May 21, 2013
The genome of the mountain pine beetle – the insect that has devastated B.C.’s lodgepole pine forests – has been decoded by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences...
Apr 2, 2013
Alain Lemaire has announced that he will be passing the position of president and CEO of Cascades to Mario Plourde, now chief operating officer of the company. The transfer will take place on May 9.
Mar 28, 2013
The expansion of Cascades’ Tissue Group plant in Lachute, Québec, has received LEED® Gold certification, a standard which recognizes the construction and operation of green buildings. The plant is the first paper manufacturing...
Mar 5, 2013
Spread the word among all young people you know: A short video could land them a four-month paid internship at a forest products company. The Forest Products Association of Canada has launched the Green Dream internship contest.
Feb 26, 2013
PAPTAC presented the Mill Manager of the Year award to Domtar’s Jim Blight during the annual PaperWeek Canada conference in Montreal in February. Blight is general manager of the Domtar mill in Dryden, Ont. The award recognizes...
Feb 26, 2013
Cascades has announced that Xerium Technologies is the winner of the company’s Sustainable Supplier Award. Created by the company's corporate procurement department, the award enables Cascades to publicly acknowledge the efforts of its...
Feb 12, 2013
The Ontario government will continue a program to help large northern industrial companies improve energy efficiency, reduce costs, sustain jobs and maintain competitiveness. The province announced in December that it intends to extend and...
Dec 24, 2012
Domtar will permanently shut down one pulp machine at its Kamloops, B.C., facility, putting 125 employees out of work and curtailing Domtar's annual pulp production by approximately 120,000 air-dried metric tons of sawdust softwood pulp.
Dec 18, 2012
BC Hydro is burning most of the timber cut to make way for its Northwest Transmission Line, according to the Vancouver Sun. The utility says the quality of the wood and the remoteness of the site mean it is not economical to harvest and sell...
Nov 20, 2012
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