News that Western Forest Products plans to invest $16 million into its Saltair sawmill is seen as a hopeful trend for the future of the forest company's other mills in the region. Lee Doney, a WFP spokesman, said that thanks to the ...
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OTTAWA - Canada and the United States have bought two extra years of relative peace on the lumber front. The two governments agreed Monday to extend the 2006 softwood lumber agreement by two years to October 2015 with no modifications to ...
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A gear is a rotating machine part having cut teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part in order to transmit torque. Two or more gears working in tandem are called a transmission and can produce a mechanical advantage through a ...
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Canfor Corp. Has reached an agreement with Tembec to purchase Tembec's two eastern British Columbia sawmills for $60 million, including working capital. The deal gives Canfor Tembec's mills at Canal Flats and Elko along with 1.1 million ...
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Bamboo has a long and interesting history dating back more than 5, 000 years. The ancient Chinese used this versatile grass for many projects, including arrow making, construction, weaving, books, and paper. Archeologists working in the ...
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