Intercontinental Pulp News Today

B.C. Premier David Eby says he is deploying a crisis response team to Prince George to support workers losing their jobs at a Canfor pulp mill.

The move comes as several forestry companies are downsizing their operations around the world due to changes in the market.

According to a release from yesterday, Canfor Pulp Products Inc. is going to be temporarily curtailing their I...

Sustanes plant in Chester, Nova Scotia. Sustane Technologies Prince George may become home to two innovative green technology projects, as a pair of proposed biomass and biofuel plants are being considered for the city. Canfor, Canfor Pulp and Paper and Licella, an Australian company, are behind a joint venture called Arbios Biotech which would use post-consumer biomass to produce advanced biofuels. Arbios is also working on integrating its technology with a Nova Scotia-based company called ...

Longtime retired president of Local 9 of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC) union, Len Shankel was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia in 1937. Len and a fellow hunting and fishing friend Jim Smith left their hometowns back east and eventually ended up in Prince Rupert in the 50s. Len arrived in 1956 and worked as a longshoreman on the docks in Prince Rupert. It was a point in time when the hiring procedure for casual workers went like this: the dispatcher would stand on a table and...