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| | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | | Young Blood Replaces Old Guard | | On June 1, 2010, Barry Tyrer stepped down as an officer and director of Trans-Pacific Trading Ltd. after 44 years. The last position Barry held was Chairman and then for nearly 40 years prior was President. At the same time, Trent Gustafson, Trapa’s 15 year veteran sales manager has become a shareholder, director and officer holding the position of Vice President. more | |
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| Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | | Third Generation Assumes Presidency | | Trapa is proud to announce that Jim Tyrer has succeeded his father as President of Trans-Pacific Trading Ltd. As of June 1, 2009, Jim took over the position of President while Barry Tyrer assumed the position of Chairman. Jim is the grandson of the late Alfred Arakawa, founder of Trans-Pacific Trading Ltd. in 1954. more
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| Monday, June 21, 2010 | | Lumber's slumber ending | | B.C.'s recovery to include resurgence in forestry more... | |
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| Monday, April 05, 2010 | | Canadian mills poised for recovery | |
Mergers and acquisitions in the global forestry sector should continue to flow as pulp and paper companies jostle to enhance market position in a competitive and changing industry, according to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers. more... | |
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| Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | | Industry bounces back as lumber prices spike sharply | | After three years of deep losses, the B.C. lumber industry is bouncing back with a bang, and mills that survived the deepest recession in memory are making money from two-by-fours for the first time since 2007. more... | |
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| Tuesday, December 29, 2009 | | Lumber market showing signs of rebound, experts say | |
After surviving the worst homebuilding year since the end of World War II, area lumber producers see the first blips of a slow and likely recovery coming in 2010.click for more... | |
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| Monday, November 30, 2009 | | Lumber prices still rising | B.C. Forests Minister Pat Bell celebrated on Friday the fact that lumber prices had reached the $250 level much earlier than anticipated in the face of a slow turnaround from an unprecedented downturn. more...
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| Tuesday, October 06, 2009 | | China an increasingly ready buyer for B.C.'s beetle-ravaged pine | | Chinese demand for B.C. lumber is eating up as much of the economy-grade mountain pine beetle wood as the province's sawmills can produce (more)... | |
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| Friday, July 24, 2009 | | Lumber market shows hope | | The U.S. timber industry's economic slide appears to have bottomed out, with modestly increasing lumber prices and housing starts portending a gradual recovery. (more) | |
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| Friday, June 19, 2009 | | Canada promises C$1 billion in aid to forest industry | | The government will pay pulp companies 16 Canadian cents a litre for "black liquor" produced between January and December of this year. Black liquor is a byproduct of the pulp-making process that is burned by mills to produce energy. more... | |
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| Monday, May 11, 2009 | | Province aims to boost forestry | Alberta’s government will support the province’s troubled forestry sector, but it won’t spend as much as what was recommended by the industry. more...
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| Monday, April 13, 2009 | | Forest sector balks at NDP calls for aid | | An NDP plan to aid the forest sector despite restrictions in the Softwood Lumber Agreement is an invitation to reignite the lumber trade war, B.C. forest industry officials say. more... | |
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| Thursday, March 12, 2009 | | Forest round-table report calls for deep changes | |
The provincial government released its long-awaited round-table report on new directions for the forest industry Monday, promising sweeping changes that Forests Minister Pat Bell said could take years to fully implement....More | |
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| Tuesday, February 10, 2009 | | Shanghai officials approve B.C.-designed roof system | | The Shanghai government has approved a B.C.-designed roofing system for apartment renovations, opening a new door into China for the province's lumber industry... more | |
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| Thursday, January 15, 2009 | | B.C. Slashes Stumpage Rates | |
VANCOUVER — B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell says the province is slashing some stumpage rates – the fees forest companies pay to cut Crown-owned timber – to reflect the slumping market for wood.
Campbell also told an industry conference Wednesday his Liberal government will introduce new measures to expand the use of wood in construction, help the forest industry diversify and support forest workers... more | |
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| Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | | Russia might abandon export tariffs on timber | | The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes to abandon all export tariffs on round timber. At least, for a few carefully chosen exporters... more | |
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| Monday, December 15, 2008 | | Overseas marketing key for BC timber industry | | An aggressive overseas marketing strategy is “more important than ever” to boost demand for British Columbia’s (BC) wood products, according to forests minister Pat Bell.. more | |
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| Sunday, December 07, 2008 | | CANADIAN WOOD ON CHINESE SCHOOL | |
XIANG'E, China - On a site adjacent to where 327 students and 16 teachers died when their school collapsed last spring, builders are busy putting to work some of the money Canadians donated to Sichuan earthquake relief.
They are erecting a school complex that is going to look nothing like this mountain town, 70 kilometres northwest of Chengdu, has ever seen. It's going to be made of wood. British Columbia spruce, fir and pine, to be exact. more | |
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| Thursday, November 20, 2008 | | Forest sector CEOs warn against selective bailouts | | Chief executive officers from 15 of the nation's leading forest companies warned Ottawa Wednesday against bailing out the auto and aerospace sectors. More... | |
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| Sunday, November 02, 2008 | | Chinese market growing but limited | | China is a growing market for B.C. lumber producers, but Northern Interior producers are mostly shipping low-grade lumber for use in concrete forming to the economic giant. more... | |
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