British Columbia's secondary wood manufacturing firms showed low efficiency for most of the business types, and performance consistently lagged sawmill and panel sectors, with a “significant downward divergence” observed since the financial crisis, according to a study by Lili Sun, Rico Chan and Bryan Bogdanski of Natural Resources Canada’s Pacific Forestry Centre. 

Since 2022, national charity Forests Canada and the Greenbelt Foundation have partnered to plant 750,000 trees and now have their sights set on hitting the one-million-tree milestone in the fall after announcing the planting of another 250,000 trees in the Greenbelt this year.

Rémi Cadrin, who devoted nearly 70 years to the hardwood lumber industry, has died. He was 85.

Weyerhaeuser Company Limited pleaded guilty May 19 for failing to ensure the health and safety of a worker after a man died on the job in Grande Prairie, Alberta, on November 18, 2023.

A Surrey, B.C., stairs and railings company has been ordered to pay $44,718.49 to a foreign worker after the British Columbia Employment Standards Tribunal dismissed its appeal of a determination that found the employer misrepresented an employment opportunity, according to a report in HR Law Canada

HANOVER, Ontario — “AI, Cybersecurity & Economic Trends Shaping Wood Manufacturing in 2026,” is the title of the Wood Manufacturing Cluster of Ontario’s information-packed quarterly networking event slated for Wednesday, June 17 at Taurus Craco Machinery.The afternoon event will focus on the technologies, economic shifts, and operational strategies beginning to have an increasingly bigger impact on Canadian wood product manufacturers.

The Canadian Woodworking Machinery Distributors Association has opened registration for the seventh edition of edition of Woodworking Technology Days, the only industrial machinery event in Canada this year.

Kassandra Avila, a student at Cégep de Trois-Rivières in Quebec, took home the grand prize in Formica’s FORM Student Innovation Competition.