May 27, 2008. /Lesprom.com/. Tembec announced that it will delay the resumption of harvesting activities to late fall 2008 in the Northern Ontario West Region. This decision will temporarily affect approximately 100 unionized and staff employees. “Relative to present and forecasted market conditions, there is a sufficient supply of logs to meet production requirements. Given the stockpiles already in mill yards and in-bush inventories, we can delay the resumption of bush operations in the Northern Ontario West Region until November. Normal road construction and road maintenance work as well as reforestation will continue during the summer,” said Mike Martel, Vice President, Ontario Division of Tembec’s Forest Products Group. “To minimize the impact on our employees, we intend to start our harvesting early in November for the Gordon Cosens Forest and a few weeks later in the Hearst Forest.” Tembec is a large, diversified and integrated forest products company which stands as the global leader in sustainable forest management practices.