International Forest Products Limited has closed the previously announced public offering of 7,187,500 Class "A" Subordinate Voting shares at a price of $12.00 per Share for gross proceeds to Interfor of $86,250,000.

The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing at the University of British Columbia will offer the Online Certificate in Industrial Finishing Course from Jan. 9 to April 15, 2012 followed by a six-day workshop at the UBC campus in Vancouver.

VANCOUVER, BC-- West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. earnings of $10 million on sales of $720 million in the second quarter of 2011.

West Fraser Timber lumber operations benefited in 2010 from improved prices supported by continuing constrained supply and increased Chinese demand for SPF lumber.

VANCOUVER, BC — British Columbia’s green economy could grow into a $27 billion-per-year green giant by 2020, says a new report from the Globe Foundation, according to the Vancouver Sun.British Columbia could become a “living laboratory” for green-sector growth that would add value to the provincial gross domestic product (GDP) more than twice as fast as the economy as a whole, John Wiebe, president and CEO of the Vancouver-based foundation, said.