With Longview-area employment totaling 1,800, the pulp and paper company is believed to be the largest private employer in southwest Washington. Reid Carter, a managing partner of Brookfield who handles forest products, said the company plans to keep Longview's employment and assets stable for the foreseeable future. The company followed the trajectory of the Northwest forest products industry. Rising costs and low prices for its commodity paper products frustrated investors, fueled...

The demand for materials like softwood at the mills is way down. Loggers pay property owners for the stumpage, harvest it and sell it to pulp and paper mills and wood processing plants. A majority of those responding said they are in danger of downsizing or going out of business because of the current business climate in the logging sector, Gene Francisco, GLTPA executive director, stated in a press release. In the past few years fuel prices increased 100 percent, stumpage prices are up 75...

Now, memories are all that remain of many of the water-powered grist mills and sawmills that were found along the banks of nearly every stream. Mary Sue Shaw has spent the last two years researching mills in southeastern York County and will tell the tale of many of the 18th- and 19th-century mills that used water power to saw, grind and mill lumber and grain to meet the needs of the local population, during a presentation April 18 at the Stewartstown Presbyterian Church fellowship hall....

Marie forest product industry. Marys a formality means the immediate termination of the final three-dozen workers still employed at the 380-worker speciality paper mill but no disruption to the capital assets sale process. Our frustration is that we have met the industry challenges of recent years. What we are frustrated about is that the ministry continues to take money at a time when they recognize the industry is facing a challenge, he said. They were assisting the company in...

The maturity of the European ACS market in pulp and paper suggests that automation and control solution manufacturers should rethink their growth strategies in this sector in order to maintain profitability. If you are interested in a virtual brochure, which provides manufacturers, end users, and other industry participants with an overview of the latest analysis of the European ACS Market in Pulp and Paper, send an e-mail to Michael Banks - Corporate Communications at michael. If you are...

KALAMAZOO--A retired Western Michigan University administrator has made a cash gift to establish a permanent endowment fund for scholarships to students enrolled in the paper science and paper engineering programs. Flores, who worked in the paper industry for 43 years and served as director of the WMU Paper Technology Foundation from 1983 until his retirement in 1993, has donated money for scholarships that will be awarded to full-time undergraduate students. Retiree gift establishes...

In this battle, three factions - including Great Pacific Industries inc. led by Jim Pattison, Matthew Cartier Holdings controlled by the Bentley and Prentice families, and Third Avenue Management LLC, a New York based hedge fund - have formed an alliance that is pitted against the Jarislowsky Fraser ltd. faction, which is a Montreal based investment firm led by Stephen Jarislowsky. In this battle, three factions - including Great Pacific Industries inc. led by Jim Pattison, Matthew Cartier...

The platform, on which Labor's more detailed federal election policy will be built, calls for a sustainable forest industry in the state, with no overall job losses, and further protection of some forests. He vowed to end logging in the "overwhelming majority" of Tasmania's old-growth forests - 240,000 hectares of forests with disputed high conservation values, offering an $800 million package. And on some of the valley's upper slopes, logging is under way as it has been in more accessible...

The demand for materials like softwood at the mills is way down. A majority of those responding said they are in danger of downsizing or going out of business because of the current business climate in the logging sector, said Gene Francisco, GLTPA executive director, in a press release. In the past few years fuel prices increased 100 percent, stumpage prices are up 75 to 100 percent and the costs of doing business are all on the rise. Nearly all of today s logging contractors are...