The wood industry will be confront with a real course against the time in order to recover the wood from the forests in fire from Haute-Mauricie, tells Fernand Potvin, operations manager at AbitibiBowater.
The combat will be taken against the destroyers of the wood, the insects that take advantage of their great number to dig tunnels where to put their eggs. The wood industry and the paper field need the raw materiel to produce good merchandise. “The priority is to recover the burn wood”, explains Claude Beauchesne, regional director of the Minister of Natural Resources and Fauna. As he says, to produce the timber, the burn wood does not necessarily represent a problem because the fire burns the peel, but the wood is still good on the inside.
The gathered of the burn wood should last between 2 and 3 years, but the speed which will realize will be limited by the “transformation capacity”. It is impossible to store peeled wood because that makes part from the industrial process.
If the storage will surpass the capacity of the industrials from Mauricie that own CAAF on these territories, it would be possible the demand of others industrials from other regions to help the recovering process. “On the economical plan, it may be not a catastrophe, but it is a reduction of the values of the forests”, says Mr. Beauchesne.
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