Fortress Paper Ltd.

With the recent acquisition of a pulp mill in Lebel-sur-Quévillon, Fortress Paper will add a second dissolving pulp facility to its production line. The mill was previously owned by Domtar but had been closed since 2005. The Northern Québec town has a long history of pulp and paper manufacturing. In fact, it was founded in the mid 1940s by loggers who arrived in the remote area to send logs down the Bell River. The industry really began to...

Following a recent certification of a section of forestlands in Québec, Resolute Forest Products became the largest manager of FSC certified forests in North America this week. Under the new agreement, Resolute now manages a total of 10.3 million hectares (25.6 million acres) on the continent, an area twice the size of Nova Scotia and larger than Portugal, Hungary or South, Korea reported Pulp And Paper Canada. “Becoming the world's larg...

Several forest industry and conservation groups have developed a plan that would encourage sustainable harvesting and ecological protection in Ontario. According to the Globe & Mail, the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CFBA) outlines a plan in which “some 835,000 hectares in the Abitibi River forest – an area roughly the size of Yellowstone Park in the U.S. – will be excluded from timber harvesting in order to protect the threatene...

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...

Last month CelluForce launched the world’s first large-scale nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) plant on site at a Domtar pulp and paper mill in Windsor, Quebec. “Today we celebrate a milestone that enables us to be the first in the world on the path to creating a significant market for NCC,” said Jean Moreau, president and CEO of CelluForce, at the plant’s opening in January. “There is an exciting future ahead for NCC and CelluForce." ...

A new government program introduced last week will inject money into Atlantic Canada’s forestry sector in an attempt to diversify the region’s struggling industry. The initiative sees the Maritime Lumber Bureau partnering with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador to invest in a program called Atlantic WoodWorks. According to an article published in the Am...

by CHAD WASILENKOFF Push aside dated notions of our global forestry sector as dominated by lumberjacks focused solely on logging trees and processing the wood. Today’s forests are increasingly high-tech with employees skilled in biochemistry, genetics, computer modeling, satellite imagery, and digital processing. Today’s bio-economy is a dynamic global market that mirrors a paradigm shift to products that originate from natural renew...

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...