Saint Petersburg, 2019 - While AFT has been active in Russia for about 30 years, strong growth in recent years led to the decision to open our own sales representative office in order to better meet the needs of our clients.

New investment in plant modernization and new goods heading to market mean the industry is back on the rise.

HALIFAX—Nova Scotia’s lands and forestry minister has appointed 14 people to an advisory committee on ecological forest management.

Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against an ex-finance manager from timber company Weyerhaeuser who is accused of stealing at least $4.5 million from the business.

Western Forest Products and the United Steel Workers Local 1-1937 (USW) are back at the table trying to hammer out an agreement that will hopefully end the workers’ strike that has been going on since the beginning of July.

Hartsville, S.C., U.S. – Sonoco-Alocre (S.a.r.l.) today announced it will raise prices for paper-based tubes and cores supplied in the United Kingdom between 8 and 10 percent, depending on product category, effective for shipments beginning on November 1, 2019.

The Province is providing $6.5 million over three years for caribou habitat restoration in British Columbia.

Forestry is important to the region and a CNC student originally from Vanderhoof has recently won a scholarship from the Council of Forest Industries (COFI).

WASHINGTON (CN) – Aiming to open up the country’s largest national forest to logging operations, the Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to roll back federal protections on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.

SYDNEY, N.S. — The provincial regulator has approved on an interim basis a proposed new power rate for Port Hawkesbury Paper and set dates for a hearing where a final determination on the tariff will be made.

Two local area companies that rely heavily on rail have contingency plans in place if the Huron Central Railway is shut down next year.

Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A possible trade deal with China announced last week might not be broad enough to save U.S. hardwood timber companies from layoffs, cutbacks and closings, industry representatives say.

An early-morning fire at West Fraser’s West Pine MDF Plant was extinguished without much difficulty on Wednesday (Oct 16).

SURREY, B.C., Canada, October 16, 2019 – Kadant Carmanah Design, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc. (NYSE: KAI), announced the appointment of Mendes Máquinas Ltda. as the exclusive agent for Kadant Carmanah’s chipping and screening products for Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, effective August 21, 2019.

DELAWARE, Ohio - Oct. 15, 2019 – Greif, Inc. (NYSE: GEF, GEF.B), a global leader in industrial packaging products and services, today announced that it is ceasing operations at its Number 1 paperboard machine at the Mobile Paperboard Mill in Mobile, Alabama.

In this edition of Remember This, the Timmins Museum and National Exhibition Center takes  a closer look and the pulp and paper industry and how this humble product created prosperity in the North.

Nova Scotia Environment Minister Gordon Wilson is not considering a request to extend the public comment period on the Northern Pulp focus report or the amount of time his department staff has to review people's submissions.

APPLETON, Wis. (WLUK) -- Some say the paper making business is a dying industry.

The Town of Fort Frances now has a little less than three months to find a new owner for the idle pulp and paper mill here.

Tolko Industries announced an indefinite closure in mid-September putting more than 120 workers out of a job.

The Canfor/Tembec/Terminal cases (all brought against the United States) provided an early analysis of issues arising from parallel claims under NAFTA, both in respect of the varying dispute settlement mechanisms contained in NAFTA, and in respect of multiple parties attempting to use the same one of those dispute settlement mechanisms – namely, Chapter 11 investor-state arbitration – in relation to the same facts.