The availability of chips from sawmills has dried up in recent months as lumber companies have temporarily shuttered operations in the face of falling wood prices. Richards said the increase was due a two per cent rise in the base price for chips, in addition to higher freight costs and costs related to higher chip quality. The fund said Wednesday it expects eight per cent of the chips it uses this year will come from whole-log chipping, up from an estimate of five per cent earlier this...

Canfor's average price for its benchmark softwood lumber in the period fell 20 percent from a year earlier to C$283 per 1,000 board feet, according to the statement. The company was projected to report a loss of 35 cents a share, the average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. The results mark Canfor's fifth consecutive quarterly loss, excluding one-time items, as it tries to overcome a drop in U. The company abandoned an earlier plan announced May 22 to close Mackenzie after...

To stem the damage, earlier this year the province called on forestry companies to change harvesting sequences so infested trees are taken down first, something which MacDonnell is happening, but which can negatively impact the industry as companies plan harvesting in 100-200 year cycles and on a species basis. The province estimates as many as three million trees are now affected and each infested tree has enough insects to potentially infest five to ten more. Those infested trees are...

Radio telemetry sent by the transmitters will allow researchers to determine where the snakes live, hibernate, how much territory each needs and how logging impacts their success. Teams have been searching the snake's southern Indiana habitat three times a week and bring them to a Purdue laboratory where they implant the device. Once found in abundance in woods and hills of Indiana, timber rattlesnakes are now relatively rare. Thompson implants transmitters about the size of an AA battery...

Clitheroe would only say the mill's returns are "significantly impacted. Transco Mills, founded 70 years ago, processes lumber and employs nine people. The owner of another mill in Maple Ridge refused to comment on how the rising Canadian dollar is affecting business, saying only that "it went up too much, too fast. Two other mills also refused to comment on how the Canadian dollar if affecting their business. We think that what we have to do is focus on totally new markets and adopt a new...

Cooper said that limited production would be restored to the damaged mill this week, and extra shifts were planned at the company s other seven mills, to avoid supply disruptions. The company would provide a more accurate report on the damages sustained after all the fires near its operations had been brought under control, Cooper said. The company would also be able to process timber burnt in the fires. York would also store a large volume of logs under irrigation. York estimates 6 000 ha...

But over-expansion pushed Doman Industries deeply into debt and Doman suffered strokes beginning in the mid-1990s that forced him to turn the running of the company over to his son, Rick, in 2001. Doman, the son of Sikh immigrants, built Doman Industries ltd. from a one-truck hauling operation in 1955 in his hometown of Duncan, on Vancouver Island into a sprawling forestry empire with 6,000 employees at its peak. Doman took his company public in 1964 - the year he got into the sawmilling...

Only a few cities, however, are preparing for disposal of the dead trees, and most trees still end up as firewood or mulch. Most of the trees were ground into mulch for homeowners and chips for a wood-burning power plant in Flint 300,000 tons of wood were sent to the plant in about one year, said Jessica Simons, of the Southeast Michigan Resource Conservation and Development Council. Federal agriculture officials say the ash borer could spread to the east-central United States within the...

Andries Pretorius, director of food control in the department of health, said the proposed regulations were intended to prevent the food industry making misleading claims about the nutritional values of its products. I t is not uncommon to have bans on toys [given away with meals], and on cartoons and adverts that promote bad eating. This is part of a broader strategy of the department related to [encouraging] healthy lifestyles and giving consumers more choice. I like the idea because...