Mercer announces downtime at its Celgar mill in BC

Mercer International Inc. reports that its Celgar mill in British Columbia, Canada, in addition to regularly planned maintenance downtime of five days, will be taking approximately 30 days of additional downtime (aggregate 52,000 ADMTs) in July 2020. The additional downtime largely results from reduced fiber availability in the mill’s procurement…

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Brazil-US timber trade facilitation

The Brazilian timber industry, represented by the Brazilian Association for Mechanically Processed Timber (ABIMCI), recently sent a written request to the governments of Brazil and the United States urging both sides to facilitate trade and good practices between the two countries. This came about because of the joint initiative of…

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