News update.The following are recent news items collected from Over the Wire, TAPPI's weekly e-news digest for its members. Over the Wire is a member benefit. For more information on membership, please go to www.tappi.org AMERICAN AND CANADIAN COMPANIES This is a list of companies from Canada.
Directory: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Current Companies are divided over the U.S. proposal to end the long running softwood lumber trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada. U.S. forest products companies have announced support for the proposal. Some Canadian companies support the deal while others are opposed. The proposal would allow Canada access to 31.5% of the U.S. market without trade penalties. The U.S. would drop the 27% across-the-board duty now in place, and refund 52% of the estimated US$ 1.4 billion in payments Canadian firms have made since the trade fight began in 2001. Shipments above the 31.5% quota level (about 17 billion board feet) would be subject to a fee of US$ 200 per 1,000 board feet. THE AMERICAN FOREST & PAPER ASSOC ASSOC Association ASSOC Associate(d) . (AF&PA) Washington, D.C., USA, has created a new Forest Products Group designed to enhance the organization's support of wood manufacturing, product acceptance and product promotion. BOISE CASCADE Boise Cascade Holdings, LLC, which uses the trade name Boise, is an American pulp and paper company, ranked as the thirteenth largest forest products company in the world. CORP., Boise, Idaho, USA, has completed its acquisition of OfficeMax Inc. for approximately US$ 1.3 billion. The acquisition of OfficeMax more than doubles the size of Boise Office Solutions to pro forma As a matter of form or for the sake of form. Used to describe accounting, financial, and other statements or conclusions based upon assumed or anticipated facts. The phrase pro forma 2002 sales of US$ 8.3 billion. LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORP. (L-P), Portland, Oregon, USA, will shut down five of its North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. 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 ) mills for capital projects and routine maintenance. The 41 days of downtime, ranging in duration at each mill, will be complete by the end of January 2004. Norampac, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, said its board of directors has appointed Marc-Andre Depin to become the company's new president and chief executive officer. STORA ENSO, Helsinki, Finland, will restructure ownership of the group's forestlands in Sweden, in a transaction will be structured to secure the supply of wood to the Group's Swedish mills, which provide about 30% of Stora Enso's wood supply there. Stora Enso's will partner with Korsnas, a Swedish forest industry company controlled by the Kinnevik Group, to create a new company named Bergvik Skog AB. WEYERHAEUSER CO., Federal Way, Washington Federal Way is a city in King County, Washington, United States. Federal Way is considered a bedroom community by some people and is located between Seattle and Tacoma. Its western boundary is Puget Sound. , USA, has completed its previously announced sale of 168,000 acres of timberlands in west-central Tennessee to Fountain Investments Inc. |
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