Operation Reports
Truckloads of raw lumber arrive daily at the Turuss (Canada) Industry Co. Ltd. facility in Chesley, Ont., which opened last summer as part of the China-based hardwood floor manufacturer. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The increasing use of robotics in the manufacturing sector is now being incorporated into the wood products industry. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Weston Forest Products made changes to its management structure with the addition of four new partners. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) is partnering with the new School of Architecture at Laurentian University on a demonstration building that will showcase the use of solid wood and cross laminated timber (CLT). Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
An increased demand for railway ties, some 25 percent more than last year, pushed Stella-Jones' second quarter net income up more than 20 percent from 2011. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The local hardware store in Cobble Hill, B.C. has sure grown over the years. Started in May 1959 by Ken McKinnon and five partners, Pacific Builder’s Supplies w Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Alberta Truebeam Ltd. is one busy place. The phone never stops ringing, e-mails flood the computer screens, and raw materials come into the plant as finished or Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
When Alain Bossé was growing up in the small, predominantly French speaking western New Brunswick town of St. Quentin, one of his local teachers was Jean-Claude Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
M&K Sawmills may be a small fish in a big pond, but nibbling on a few giants has helped them survive, even through the recent tough times. The family-owned M&K Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Combining their respective strengths of computer simulation and wood and bonding technology, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences and Holzforschung Austria Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Rosario Poirier knows the wood products business well, and he fully understands what needs to be done for smaller producers to stay alive in a competitive market. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
For Rob Wrightman, president and CEO of True North Log Homes Inc. in Bracebridge, Ont., making the decision to go into the highly competitive log home business was easy. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Six years ago John Greenwood put his entrepreneurial spirit and business background to good use when he took over the helm of Nisku, Alta.-based Millennium Decking and its parent company, Wood Composites Technologies Inc. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A pallet stock remanufacturer is proving that you don’t need the latest and greatest technology to survive today’s market crunch, just razor-sharp marketing skills and a willingness to think outside the box when chasing non-traditional export markets. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Plant manager and part-owner Bill Peresky of Mountain View Specialty Products Ltd. knows that if his Abbottsford, BC remanufacturing company is going to emerge Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
In Vernon, BC, Dave Marcoux, president of AcuTruss is embracing the new reality in residential construction. More contractors are ordering finished housing comp Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Two years ago, Bill Bowie, owner of Dawson City, Yukon-based Arctic Inland Resources Ltd., had a difficult choice to make. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The same thinking that caused a problem won’t help find a solution. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Fourth generation BC remanner Don Backs has always liked red cedar – the wood his company is known for cutting – for its natural beauty, durability, and appeal Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
In 2005, Ken Eldredge delivered a load of pack baskets to a customer in southern Maine. He left Corinth early to beat the morning rush hour traffic and arrived Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
