FEATURE

Managing by Strengths in Secondary Wood Manufacturing

This article distills and applies the core insights from Marcus Buckingham’s “What Great Managers Do,” published in Harvard Business Review, March 2005, ... Read more.

MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR

This week’s feature explores how aligning tasks with employee strengths boosts performance in secondary wood manufacturing, offering practical tools for role design, recognition, and coaching. Our column highlights why maintaining proper corporate records is critical—especially during audits, disputes, or financing deals—and outlines legal risks and missed opportunities that arise when documentation is incomplete or outdated.

– Tyler Holt, Editor

LATEST NEWS

Blum Canada Names Pierre Isele as New Managing Director

Blum Canada has announced the appointment of Pierre Isele as Managing Director, effective September 1, 2025. Isele, a 15-year veteran of the company, ... Read more.

Festool Highlights Sanding Solutions at Canada-Wide Experience Events This Fall

Festool Canada is continuing its nationwide Experience events through 2025, with September programming focused on sanding solutions. The series, part of the ... Read more.

Government Rolls Out Major Industrial Strategy to Protect Canadian Jobs and Build Trade Resilience

Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced sweeping measures to protect Canadian industries and workers from the impact of U.S. tariffs and ... Read more.

Interfor Announces Temporary Production Cuts Across Canada and U.S. Mills

Interfor Corporation (TSX: IFP) will reduce its lumber production by approximately 145 million board feet between September and December 2025, ... Read more.

COLUMN

How Proper Documentation Protects Deals, Audits, and Owners

Are you thinking of selling or financing your business? Are you involved in shareholders’ dispute? Or, perhaps worse yet, is your business being audited by ... Read more.

BUSINESS

Weyerhaeuser Completes $60M Sale of Princeton, B.C., Lumber Mill to Gorman Group

Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) has completed the sale of its lumber mill in Princeton, British Columbia, to the Gorman Group, the company confirmed on ... Read more.

LATEST EVENTS

October 21-24, 2025, Woodworking Technology Days, Mississauga, ON, Canada

October 28-29, 2025, Expo Design B2B EXPERIENCE, Quebec City, QC, Canada

November 12-14, 2025, Woodworking Machinery & Supply Conference and Expo (WMS 2025), Toronto, ON, Canada

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