Harmac Pacific (Nanaimo Forest Products) says it is largely avoiding the incoming 50% US tariffs by selling NBSK almost entirely into Asian markets — a bright spot after Domtar's Howe Sound idling (CBC)
Forestry & Timber
Maryland is pushing locally harvested wood into state construction and mass timber markets — Cambium is building a flagship processing facility in Columbia, backed by a June executive order on state wood procurement (Maryland DNR)
Storm Johannes salvage timber continues to weigh on the Swedish lumber market (Global Wood Markets Info)
Co-generation
The California Senate unanimously passed the Forest Organic Residue, Energy and Safety Transformation and Wildfire Prevention Act, creating a program to maintain and expand in-state biomass power generation (Biomass Magazine)
Valmet completed a recovery boiler modification at Stora Enso's Varkaus mill in Finland (PULPAPERnews)
