Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Future of Forestry

Mills in this region need to expand beyond producing just pulp and paper.

That's the recommendation of a new report by the Forest Products Association of Canada.

Catherine Cobden is a spokesperson for the group and says mills need to diversify into other products like bio-fuels and bio-products.

Cobden says mills would be able to employ five times as many workers using the integrated production appoach.