Forest Industry in NW Sask. Grows.In June, Premier Lorne Calvert announced a major forestry development for the northwest region, which includes a $200 million Oriented Strand Board Oriented strand board, or OSB, or waferboard, or Sterling board (UK), is an engineered wood product formed by layering strands (flakes) of wood in specific orientations. (OSB OSB abbr. Order of Saint Benedict ) mill and enhanced community-based wood allocations. This latest news build on the government's 1999 announcement of a doubling of the forest sector. A partnership including Toko Industries Ltd., Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC MLTC Modern Languages Teaching Centre (University of Sheffield, UK) MLTC Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition MLTC Mixed Leukocyte/Tumor Cell Cultures ), Northwest Communities Wood Products Ltd. (NWC NWC Network Computing (Magazine) NWC Northwest College (Powell, Wyoming) NWC Northwestern College (Orange City, IA, USA) NWC Northwestern College (St. ) and Crown Investments Corporations (CIC CIC circulating immune complexes. CIC Circulating immune complexes. See Immune complexes. ), will construct the OSB plant near Meadow Lake. When complete, the mill will employ 130 people, with an additional 130 jobs in associated woodlands activities such as harvesting and trucking. An expanded wood allocation for NWC, a partnership of the communities of Beauval, Green Lake, Ile-a-la-Crosse, Patuanak and Pinehouse, will help facilitate the company's other ventures, which include a sawmill planned for Beauval, three post plants, a hardwood sawmill and a lumber finishing facility at Green Lake. |
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