Wood fibre mill in limbo.The partnership between the proponents of a wood fibre mill (Algoma Mill Works) and the Elliot Lake Elliot Lake, city (1991 pop. 14,089), S central Ont., Canada, W of Sudbury. The focus of a 1950s uranium-mining boom, it is now a retirement home center. and North Shore Business Development Corp. (ELNOS) is in jeopardy. The ELNOS board has rejected a proposal from Algoma Mill Works on the terms and conditions of a financial agreement. The $105-million birch plywood plywood, manufactured board composed of an odd number of thin sheets of wood glued together under pressure with grains of the successive layers at right angles. Laminated wood differs from plywood in that the grains of its sheets are parallel. mill, to be built in the Blind River/Elliot Lake/Spanish area, was granted access in. April to regional surplus hardwood hardwood: see wood. hardwood Timber obtained from broad-leaved, flower-bearing trees. Hardwood trees are deciduous trees, except in the warmest regions. and' white birch. ELNOS was going to contribute $2 million toward the mill in the form of equity. But without a deal with ELNOS, there is a chance Algoma Mill Works will lose the wood allocation it was awarded this past spring. AMW AMW America's Most Wanted (TV show) AMW Air Mobility Wing AMW Amphibious Warfare AMW Ask Me Why (Beatles song) AMW Angewandte Medienwissenschaft (German: Applied Media Studies) has already missed a June 16 deadline to give the Ministry of Natural Resources a progress report on what it is doing to build the wood fibre mill. A second deadline was missed in July. |
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