Bowater forges ahead with mills.The wheels are in motion to get two new softwood softwood Timber obtained from coniferous trees (mainly of the pine and fir families). With the exception of bald cypress, tamarack, and larch, softwood trees are evergreens. lumber mills up and running in northwestern Ontario Northwestern Ontario is the region within the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north and west of Lake Superior, and west of Hudson Bay and James Bay. It includes most of subarctic Ontario. by the end of 2002. Bowater Pulp and Paper Canada Inc. was recently given the go ahead by the Ministry of Natural Resources to reopen the former Ignace Sawmill sawmill, installation or facility in which cut logs are sawed into standard-sized boards and timbers. The saws used in such an installation are generally of three types: the circular saw, which consists of a disk with teeth around its edge; the band saw, which in Ignace, and to begin construction on a new mill in Thunder Bay Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships. . The two projects are valued at $96 million. Bowater spokesperson Sue Prodaniuk says construction is already underway in Ignace to expand and modernize the facility which shut down last fall and was sold to Bowater in November. A location for the Thunder Bay sawmill has not yet been determined. The new sawmills are part of Bowater's "strategic direction," Prodaniuk says. She says the two facilities will create over 300 jobs and will be responsible for economic spinoffs in both communities. "There are jobs, obviously," she says. "The Thunder Bay facility will employ 158 people. With that, there are going to be an additional 55 jobs that are expected to be created through associated woodlands and transportation requirements." In Ignace, Bowater will re-establish the mill's original 63 positions and another 61 will be created due to woodland and transportation requirements. A fall startup is anticipated for the Ignace mill, while the Thunder Bay facility will open sometime next year. The total production capacity of the mills will, be about 265 million board feet per year. "The market that these would go to is basically the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. market - mostly for renovations and for do-it-yourselfers," Prodaniuk says. Bowater, headquartered in Greenville, S.C., is a major newsprint newsprint low grade paper used for newspapers. Old newspapers are fed to cattle as an alternative roughage and may occasionally be ingested by dogs. Significant amounts of lead are accumulated in tissues; no cases of poisoning have been recorded in cattle, though it has been producer. The company also makes coated and uncoated groundwood papers, bleached draft pulp and lumber products. With Bowater's pending acquisition of Alliance Forest Products Inc., the company will have 12 pulp and paper mills in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada and South Korea and 13 North American sawmills that produce softwood and hardwood lumber. |
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