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Resolute Forest Products Receives Block Grant to Buy Equipment and Restart El Dorado Arkansas Mill

Resolute Forest Products is the recipient of a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) through the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC) for the purpose of purchasing equipment for a formerly owned by Conifex and Georgia Pacific sawmill in El Dorado Arkansas, that ceased operations in August 2019 and which Resolute purchased in February of 2020.

B.C. Judge Rules Destruction of Surrey Mill Did Not Eliminated Obligation to a Chip Supply Agreement

British Columbia Supreme Court Justice, Geoffrey Gomery, has ruled that the MacKenzie Sawmill Ltd. (MSL), whose Surrey B.C. mill was destroyed by a series of fire, the first on Nov. 12, 2010, the second on Jan. 25, 2011, and a third on Oct. 31, 2014, which halted production and ruined the mill, has not been “permanently discharged” from its obligations to provide lumber giant Interfor Corporation with wood chips.