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The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) unveiled what it’s calling an “industry-led vision” that outlines a strategy to stimulate and foster innovation in the Canadian forestry sector. “Canada's forest products industry has already made significant progress in becoming more competitive, in tackling new markets, in developing innovative new bio-products from wood fibre and in greening our operations,” said the president and C...

In the 2012 budget unveiled last week in Ottawa, Canada’s federal government detailed plans to continue support for forestry innovation projects across the country. The budget earmarked $105 million over two years for market development and forestry innovation – an effort applauded by groups such as FPInnovations and the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC). “The 2012 federal budget renews a partnership that has delivered valu...

The forestry sector has traditionally been known for it’s lumber, pulp, and paper opportunities but forestry experts say that Canadian forests could be key to developing a strong renewable energy sector.   Earlier this month, Avrim Lazar, president and CEO appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources and said that with the right government support the Canadian forest industry could produce a ...

Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, announced earlier this month that the federal government would invest $53.5 million to “advance the transformation and evolution of Canada’s forest industry.” The investment – which will be divvied up among 24 companies representing 28 pulp and paper mills across Canada – is part of a program the federal government introduced in 2009 called the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation ...

Some call it an “industry in transition,” others have said it is an industry “under the gun,” but the forestry sector is finding new life in innovative and creative solutions that are not only helping the once struggling industry turn around, but also helping to usher in what the Edmonton Journal calls a "green breeze." After two years of work by the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), FPInnovations and the Canadian Forest Se...

With the Canadian forestry sector in decline, pulp mills are feeling the pangs of an industry that is seeing some of its biggest outputs – such as newsprint – fall to the wayside. But all hope is not lost, says Thomas Beckley, a professor at the University of New Brunswick’s Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management. The key to a modern successful forestry sector is diversity, he says. “There is strength and resilience in di...