[Richmond, BC] – Paper Excellence is pleased to announce the creation of a new scholarship for Métis students who live in the communities where we operate.

PRINCE GEORGE-Two of the country’s largest pulp and paper unions, Unifor and the Public and Private Workers of Canada (PPWC), have agreed to continue to work together in the next round of pulp and paper bargaining for members across Western Canada.

Earlier today, Resolute was named an organization of the year (large company) in the Business Intelligence Group’s (BIG) 2021 Excellence in Customer Service Awards for product innovation and customer service in our tissue business.

Officials with Vernon-based Tolko appreciates concerns over planned logging near the Duteau Creek watershed, but said it can be done safely and within required guidelines.

WASHINGTON – The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Heidi Brock released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate held virtually today and tomorrow with world leaders: 

Earth Day is a global day of action to protect and restore our environment. 

Since 2008, the Carbon Balanced Paper initiative has been responsible for balancing 190,000 tonnes of CO₂ and preserving 19,000 acres of high conservation value land.

Montreal, April 15, 2021 – EACOM Timber Corporation is pleased to announce an investment of $8.9M to equip its Elk Lake sawmill with a new, state-of-the art continuous dry kiln (CDK).

(April 20, 2021) VANCOUVER, BC – The First Nations Forestry Council has announced three new partnerships with Mosaic Forest Management, Tolko Industries Ltd. (Tolko), and Western Forest Products Inc. through the Indigenous Forestry Scholarship Program (IFSP).

GreenFirst to Acquire Forest and Paper Products Assets in Ontario and Québec with expectation to become top-ten lumber producer in Canada and Announces proposed Debt and Equity Financings

An article titled “Modern paper use is wildly unsustainable” recently appeared in Popular Science. Two Sides responded to the publication to set the record straight.

New Brunswick is receiving no extra royalties from forestry companies for trees cut on crown land this year, even though prices for lumber made from those trees are at record highs.

KINGSEY FALLS, QC, April 16, 2021 - Cascades (CAS: TSX), a recovery, green packaging and hygiene solutions leader, invites you to its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, to be held in virtual form on Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 2 p.m. 

Across British Columbia, important discussions are happening about the future of our provincial forest sector.

Canada’s biggest toilet paper manufacturer aims to make some of its tissue from bamboo as an environmentally sustainable option for consumers.

The closure of the Paper Excellence pulp mill in Mackenzie comes as a disappointing, but not entirely unexpected, blow to the forestry dependent community.

KAMLOOPS — One of 24 projects who received funding from the B.C. government’s Supply Chain Resiliency Grant program is centred in Kamloops.

FORT MILL, S.C. – Apr. 13, 2021 – Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) will release its first quarter 2021 financial results before markets open on Thursday, May 6^th, 2021.

[Richmond, BC] – Paper Excellence announced today the permanent closure of the Mackenzie Pulp Mill located in Mackenzie, BC. Production at the mill was originally curtailed in June 2020 due to market impacts caused by COVID-19 and lack of local economic fibre.

The B.C. government’s plan to break up large forest harvest licences and share the resource with secondary manufacturers and Indigenous communities hasn’t worked, so Crown timber rights will be redistributed by the government, Premier John Horgan has warned industry executives.

At this time of the year, rivers and ponds in western Newfoundland are usually awash with the spring runoff, meaning high water levels and steady power generation for the Deer Lake hydroelectric station.