The Besançon Tribunal de Commerce ordered the liquidation on May 15 of Papeterie du Doubs, formerly owned by Otor and taken over by the Golfkarton group headed by Mr. Soenen.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) and Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) introduced H.R. 5873 – the Forest Products Fairness Act of 2012 – which would modify the definition of “biobased” materials to specifically include forest products in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Biobased Markets Program.

The International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA) announced Donna Harman as its new President. Harman, president and CEO of the American Forest & Paper Association, will serve in this capacity for the next two years.

TORONTO, ONTARIO-- Cathay Forest Products Corp. (Cathay Forest or the Company) (TSX VENTURE:CFZ) announces the resignation of Robert Beutel and John Housser from the Board of directors. The Board of directors will undertake a search for potential candidates to fill these vacancies and to review all the outstanding matters that had been occurred, leading to the suspension of the shares of the Company, and the delisting of the Company from the TSX Venture Exchange.

4:43 (Dow Jones) CME lumber futures finish narrowly mixed as traders weighed big losses in stock and commodity markets against futures' discount to cash prices.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, June 1, 2012 - Canfor Pulp Products Inc. (the "Company") (TSX:CFX) announces today that production at the Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership's (the "Partnership") Northwood Pulp Mill has been curtailed to investigate a failure in one of its two recovery boilers. There were no injuries reported in the incident but the number one recovery boiler has been shutdown to determine the cause of the malfunction. As a result, only one of the two production lines in the mill is currently operating.