Fiber-based products provider Domtar has opened its second generating unit, which has a power output of 18MW, at Windsor (Quebec) Mill, Canada. The start-up of its second generating unit, built for $36 million, will improve the energy ...
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Fiber-based products manufacturer Domtar is set to shut down one pulp machine, A-Line' at its Kamloops, British Columbia facility in Canada permanently, by the end of March 2013. According to the company, the decision will limit the ...
Tags: Fiber-based products, Domtar, pulp machine, Pulp and Paper Manufacturing
November 22, 2012 - Hydro Ottawa has completed the purchase of three hydroelectric plants and a 38.3% interest in the Ring Dam and remaining water rights at Chaudiere Falls from Domtar Corp. for $46 million. Hydro Ottawa says it already ...
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It's been a good summer for sawmills in northeastern Ontario — and that has some thinking optimistically about the forest industry for the first time in years. More Americans are building houses this summer, bumping up lumber prices. ...
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{ISSUE} Soaring energy prices are thinning profit margins in the transport sector and increasing operational costs in many manufacturing industries {SHIFT} Turning wood waste into bio-fuel helps industry find a cost-effective and ...
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Timber and forest products companies are once more among the top performers in terms of minimising the risk of their activities causing deforestation, according to the latest report from the Forest Footprint Disclosure initiative (FFD). The ...
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In the original tale of The Three Little Pigs, only the bricklaying piglet survives the wolf’s attack. If only the first two porkers had known about nanocrystalline cellulose, they’d have survived too. This near-impenetrable ...
Tags: market view, wood pulp