Tembec has suffered reduced production because of a reduced work week, both at its Elko sawmill and its corresponding planer mill.The company will tolerate a similar situation at its Canal Flats sawmill and corresponding planer mill starting next week. Over the next three months, Tembec will take the equivalent of three weeks of production downtime,[…]
With the first edition of International Forest Industries landing on the desks of the global forestry community early this month, the IFI editorial team has started putting together stories and information for the first edition of the New Year. The launch edition of the magazine included a general overview of current industry issues through the[…]
Tembec has successfully started a new tertiary refiner line at its high yield pulp mill in Chetwynd, British Columbia, which it says will increase production by 10,000 air dry metric tonnes/y (ADMT). The capital cost of the project was less than $1 million. Executive Vice President and President of the Pulp Group, Yvon Pelletier: “The[…]
Indonesia’s climate change credentials have suffered a serious set back after a key player in the country’s illegal logging business was acquitted of criminal charges over the destruction of 58,000 ha of virgin Sumatran forest, according to a report in The Australian newspaper. Businessman Adelin Lis was the subject of an international manhunt and what[…]