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SHANGHAI, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) («Daqo New Energy» or the «Company»), a leading manufacturer of high-purity polysilicon for the global solar PV industry, today announced it plans to release its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2020 ended December 31, 2020 before U.S. markets open on Tuesday, March 9, 2021.

The Company has scheduled a conference call to discuss the results at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on March 9, 2021 (9:00 PM Beijing / Hong Kong time on the same day).

The dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:

Participant dial in (U.S. toll free): +1-888-346-8982
Participant international dial in: +1-412-902-4272
China mainland toll free: 4001-201203
Hong Kong toll free: 800-905945
Hong Kong local toll: +852-301-84992

Please dial in 10 minutes before the call is scheduled to begin and ask to join the Daqo New Energy Corp. call.

Webcast link: https://services.choruscall.com/links/dq210309.html

A replay of the call will be available 1 hour after the conclusion of the conference call through March 16, 2021. The dial in details for the conference call replay are as follows:

U.S. toll free: +1-877-344-7529
International toll: +1-412-317-0088
Canada toll free: 855-669-9658
Replay access code: 10152748

To access the replay through an international dial-in number, please select the link below. https://services.choruscall.com/ccforms/replay.html

Participants will be asked to provide their name and company name upon entering the call.

Safe Harbor Statement

This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the «safe harbor» provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as «will,» «expects,» «anticipates,» «future,» «intends,» «plans,» «believes,» «estimates» and similar statements. Among other things, Daqo’s strategic and operational plans in this announcement contain forward-looking statements. The Company may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its reports filed or furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual reports to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company’s beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the demand for photovoltaic products and the development of photovoltaic technologies; global supply and demand for polysilicon; alternative technologies in cell manufacturing; the Company’s ability to significantly expand its polysilicon production capacity and output; the reduction in or elimination of government subsidies and economic incentives for solar energy applications; the Company’s ability to lower its production costs; and the duration of the coronavirus outbreak and its impact on the Company’s business and financial performance. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the reports or documents that the Company has filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release is as of the date hereof, and the Company undertakes no duty to update such information or any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.

About Daqo New Energy Corp.

Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) («Daqo» or the «Company») is a leading manufacturer of high-purity polysilicon for the global solar PV industry. Founded in 2007, the Company is one of the world’s lowest cost producers of high-purity polysilicon. Daqo’s highly-efficient and technically advanced manufacturing facility in China currently has an annual polysilicon nameplate capacity of 70,000 metric tons.

For more information, please visit http://www.dqsolar.com

Daqo New Energy Corp.
Investor Relations
Phone: +86-187 1658 5553
Email: dqir@daqo.com

Christensen
In China
Mr. Rene Vanguestaine
Phone: +86 178 1749 0483
Email: rvanguestaine@christensenir.com

In the U.S.
Mr. Tip Fleming
Phone: +1-917-412-3333
Email: tfleming@Christensenir.com

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SOURCE Daqo New Energy Corp.

TIGARD, Ore., Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Agilyx Corporation (AGLX), a wholly owned subsidiary of Agilyx AS (Euronext Growth (Oslo): «AGLX») and a leader in advanced recycling technology, established Cyclyx International LLC., on January 1, 2021. ExxonMobil joined Agilyx to become a founding member of the joint venture which is focused on helping increase plastic waste recycling.

Cyclyx will aggregate and pre-process plastic waste to meet the technical requirements of a wide range of recycling processes while ensuring reliable supply of feedstock to its customers. Cyclyx aims to transform the current supply chain and help accelerate the growth of the advanced recycling industry by connecting companies looking for plastic waste solutions with customers engaged in recycling initiatives.

The joint venture combines Agilyx’s expertise in plastic waste conversion with ExxonMobil’s technology expertise and large-scale petro-chemical manufacturing network. As part of the agreement, Cyclyx will help supply plastic waste feedstocks for ExxonMobil’s advanced recycling projects. Advanced recycling involves breaking down plastic waste to its molecular building blocks which are then used in the process of making virgin-quality plastic and other valuable products.

«This is a significant milestone for Agilyx and Cyclyx, as it marks the beginning of an entirely new approach to plastic waste recovery,» said Tim Stedman, chief executive officer at Agilyx. «Our mission at Agilyx is clear – to help solve the issue of plastic waste.»

«This joint venture represents an entirely new proposition about the way we handle plastic waste,» said Joe Vaillancourt, newly appointed chief executive officer of Cyclyx. «The Cyclyx business model brings tangible solutions, turning plastic waste into valuable new products. Leveraging Agilyx’s expertise in plastics recycling and the scale of partners like ExxonMobil, we aim to create a lasting and impactful change.»

«We see Cyclyx as helping to fill an important missing link in the plastics recycling value chain that is needed for advanced recycling solutions to scale,» said Karen McKee, President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company. «We share society’s concern about plastic waste, and our new joint venture is an important step in our efforts to develop advanced recycling technologies and approaches to help meet demand for certified circular polymers.»

ExxonMobil holds a 25 percent equity interest in Cyclyx with Agilyx owning the remaining 75 percent. In addition to supplying plastic waste to Agilyx’s customers and ExxonMobil, Cyclyx also aims to supply other customers with feedstock solutions for a wide range of recycling initiatives.

Cyclyx invites other companies to join as members, connecting waste producers with advanced and mechanical recyclers through innovative supply chains. Members could include retailers, brand owners, waste management companies, petrochemical companies, municipalities and others looking for solutions to address plastic waste in the environment.

Cautionary Statement

Statements of future events or conditions in this release are forward-looking statements. Actual future results, including project plans, operational results, scaling and expanding current recycling and research, the impacts of new technologies, and the creation of new sources of supply for industrial processes, could vary depending on the outcome of further research and testing; the development and competitiveness of alternative technologies; the ability to scale current projects on a cost-effective basis; political and regulatory developments; and other factors discussed in this release.

CONTACT:

Contacts:
Agilyx
Kate Ringier
VP, Communications & Government Affairs
+41 78 822 7770
kate.ringier@agilyx.com

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• MOU signifies milestone in the development of ESG platform to support SGX-listed companies in their reporting needs
• Collaboration sets OneConnect in pole position in APAC for using technologies in enhancing reporting and applying ESG information

SINGAPORE, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — OneConnect Financial Technology Co., Ltd. (OneConnect) the leading technology-as-a-service platform provider and an associate of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. («Ping An«), today said it had entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Singapore Exchange (SGX) to collaborate and build an environmental, social and governance (ESG) platform to facilitate and simplify the ESG disclosure processes of companies listed on SGX.

This collaboration is part of efforts to develop and promote a sustainable ecosystem by raising the quality of ESG disclosures and promoting the application and integration of ESG factors across capital market stakeholders in the long term. The collaboration places OneConnect as the ESG trailblazer of the Asia Pacific region, deploying a suite of tech solutions that establishes a framework and streamlines ESG reporting through specified standard indicators and templates.

The platform will help companies listed on SGX to efficiently manage and make their sustainability disclosures for possible benchmarking more transparent. This may help to improve the standard of overall ESG performance in the long run. The platform will also help overcome common challenges faced by companies and investors when dealing with ESG information. These challenges include lack of comparability, changing investors’ demand, as well as the evolving business landscape and regulations.

Features of the platform will include workflow management systems, report and visualisation modules and an ESG disclosure framework mapping to meet listed companies’ ESG reporting and data processing needs. The partnership will bring together relevant resources such as ESG datasets and domain expertise while adding new functionalities progressively to better serve companies, investors, research analysts and relevant stakeholders.

As an associate and the preferred tech partner of Ping An, OneConnect has teamed up with Ping An to deliver ESG solutions for companies outside of China. Ping An itself is the first company in China to participate in the United Nation’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance framework, and the first insurer in China to be included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. Ping An has leveraged its «finance + technology» expertise to develop the Ping An AI-ESG Platform to track, measure and monitor its internal ESG performance. Using artificial intelligence, natural language processing technologies and other ESG tools including greenwashing detection and climate value-at-risk asset-repricing models, the Ping An AI-ESG Platform captures and computes the five-year ESG scores of all Chinese A-share companies for its benchmarking and investment-decision making.  

Ms Jessica Tan, Co-CEO of Ping An Group, said, «As a champion of ESG, Ping An believes in ‘tech for social good’ where technologies can aptly enable every company to become a responsible corporate citizen. With the development of Ping An’s own artificial intelligence-driven ESG framework in China – we see the synergy in sharing and integrating our expertise in ESG into a platform that can be adopted by other companies, thereby bolstering the ESG culture across Asia Pacific.»

Ms Tan Bin Ru, CEO (SEA), OneConnect Financial Technology, shared, «With ESG taking centre-stage in the global scene, companies are increasingly subject to a set of non-financial reporting of ESG factors to meet investors’ demands and regulatory requirements. This is an opportune time and an esteemed privilege for OneConnect to join hands to develop the ESG platform with SGX. This is a remarkable moment for us to be able to tap on our expertise and work alongside SGX in creating and implementing a robust platform for SGX-listed companies to better their journey on ESG reporting and strengthen their sustainability risk management.»

Mr Michael Syn, Senior Managing Director and Head of Equities, SGX, said, «Investors globally are placing increasing importance on sustainability considerations, leading to significant growth in capital allocated to ESG strategies. As a result, both investors and issuers desire ESG data to be more transparent, standardised and accessible. The data and workflow platform will help SGX-listed companies report with more effective alignment to major disclosure standards. The focus is on a core set of indicators that are quantitative in nature and normalised for comparability. This complements issuers’ materiality-based reporting that are highly specific to each listed company’s business context. For investors, the benefit is more seamless integration of this core set of indicators into their investment strategies and capital allocation across portfolios, lowering the information friction they currently face.»

SGX, as a front-line market regulator, has played an integral part in driving disclosures through rulemaking and capacity building. Mandatory sustainability reporting was implemented in Singapore since 2016. This has been an area of constant progress as international standards continue to be refined. SGX has also been making a bigger push in sustainability with a S$20-million multi-pronged plan to expand its ESG-focused products, services and platforms, as well as to build capacity for the financial ecosystem, strengthen internal capabilities and increase CSR commitments.

About OneConnect Financial Technology

OneConnect (NYSE: OCFT) is a leading technology-as-a-service platform for financial institutions. The Company’s platform provides cloud-native technology solutions that integrate extensive financial services industry expertise with market-leading technology. The Company’s solutions provide technology applications and technology-enabled business services to financial institutions. Together they enable the Company’s customers’ digital transformations, which help them increase revenue, manage risks, improve efficiency, enhance service quality and reduce costs.

Our technology-as-a-service platform strategically covers multiple verticals in the financial services industry, including banking, insurance and asset management, across the full scope of their businesses – from sales and marketing and risk management to customer services, as well as technology infrastructure such as data management, program development, and cloud services.

About Ping An Group

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. («Ping An«) is a world-leading technology-powered retail financial services group. With over 218 million retail customers and 598 million Internet users, Ping An is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. Ping An focuses on two over-arching domains of activity, «pan financial assets» and «pan health care», covering the provision of financial and health care services through our integrated financial services platform and our ecosystems; in financial services, health care, auto services and smart city services. Our «finance + technology» and «finance + ecosystem» transformation strategies aim to provide customers and internet users with innovative and simple products and services using technology. As China’s first joint stock insurance company, Ping An is committed to upholding the highest standards of corporate reporting and corporate governance. The Group is listed on the stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 2020, Ping An ranked 7th in the Forbes Global 2000 list and ranked 21st in the Fortune Global 500 list. Ping An also ranked 38th in the 2020 WPP Kantar Millward Brown BrandZTM Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands list.

For more information, please visit www.group.pingan.com, and follow us on LinkedIn – PING AN

About Singapore Exchange

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards. It also operates Asia’s only multi-partner, multi-asset exchange-led sustainability platform (sgx.com/first).  

As Asia’s most international, multi-asset exchange, SGX provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services, with about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore. SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN and offers commodities and currency derivatives products. Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities. For more information, please visit www.sgx.com.

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SOURCE OneConnect

MIAMI, 24 de febrero de 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — AIRE Radio Networks, la red radial certificada de minorías en español más grande del país y la red radial oficial de Spanish Broadcasting System, anunció hoy que su programa matutino sindicado de alta audiencia, Al Aire Con El Terrible, amplía su cobertura y ahora puede escucharse en 15 mercados hispanos principales.

Al Aire con El Terrible se lanzó a través de AIRE Radio Networks/Spanish Broadcasting System en agosto de 2018, presentado por una de las personalidades más influyentes de la radio latina, Alberto «El Terri» Cortez. Al Aire Con El Terrible, un favorito de los radioyentes, gana cada vez más reconocimiento por animar y fortalecer a la comunidad hispana mediante la música y el humor.

El programa incluye una variedad de segmentos atractivos que conectan con los consumidores hispanos, entre los cuales están los relacionados con aspectos destacados de la comunidad, historias y palabras de aliento, entrevistas con artistas y celebridades latinas, noticias internacionales, rumores sobre los famosos, chistes y segmentos taquilleros como Mini Terry, El Pesado de Sinaloa, Citripio Pérez, Segmento Deportivo, El Anónimo, El Detective, El Doctor J y Sexóloga Eugenia Flores.  En cada pausa del programa, se transmite una mezcla de los mejores éxitos de la música regional mexicana.

«El Terri es un influenciador único que ha impulsado de manera constante los índices de audiencia en nuestras estaciones propias y operadas por nosotros en Los Ángeles, San Francisco y Chicago. Su éxito viene de su dedicación a desarrollar contenido atractivo, cultural y alentador que le habla a la comunidad hispana», manifestó Elisa Torres, vicepresidenta ejecutiva de AIRE Radio Networks y ventas nacionales de Spanish Broadcasting System. «La respuesta a su programa desde el lanzamiento ha sido excepcional, y los pedidos para incluir publicidad en el programa siguen en aumento. Estamos muy entusiasmados al ver el crecimiento de Al Aire con El Terrible«.

«La colaboración con AIRE Radio Networks y Spanish Broadcasting System ha sido extraordinaria. Me siento muy agradecido por tener una plataforma sólida desde la que puedo alentar a los radioyentes hispanos en todo el país a diario», declaró Alberto Cortez, presentador de Al Aire con El Terrible. «Estamos atravesando tiempos difíciles, y la mayor recompensa es saber que he desempeñado un papel ayudando a nuestra gente a comenzar su día con risas y positivismo».

Al AIRE con El Terrible también tiene una variedad de extensiones digitales y en redes sociales, como el pódcast que lleva el mismo nombre en la aplicación LaMusica, la principal aplicación hispana de transmisión en continuo («streaming») y las páginas de El Terrible en Facebook, Twitter e Instagram.  

Para todas las consultas y más información sobre sindicación, comuníquese con Blanca Navas, vicepresidenta de ventas de afiliados, en bnavas@aireradionetworks.com.

Acerca de Spanish Broadcasting System y AIRE Radio Networks
Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. es una empresa hispana líder de medios que es propietaria y opera 17 estaciones de radio situadas en los principales mercados hispanos estadounidenses de Nueva York, Los Ángeles, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco y Puerto Rico, y transmite los géneros musicales tropical, mexicano regional, adulto contemporáneo en español, Top 40 y de formato rítmico latino. SBS opera también AIRE Radio Networks, una plataforma de radio nacional que crea, distribuye y comercializa programación destacada en español para más de 300 estaciones afiliadas que llegan al 95 % de la audiencia hispana de los Estados Unidos. SBS también es propietaria de MegaTV, una operadora de televisión con distribución por ondas, cable y satélite, con afiliadas en todos los Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico. SBS produce también conciertos y eventos en vivo, y es propietaria de varios sitios web bilingües, entre ellos www.LaMusica.com, un destino en línea y una aplicación móvil que ofrece contenido relacionado con música latina, entretenimiento, noticias y cultura. Para obtener más información, visítenos en línea en www.spanishbroadcasting.com.

Acerca de Terry «El Terrible» Cortez
Alberto «El Terrible» Cortez ha estado en el negocio del entretenimiento por años, inspirando el crecimiento personal y profesional de la comunidad hispana de los Estados Unidos. Reconocido por tratar los temas que más importan, incluso cuando nadie más quiere tratarlos, El Terrible se empeña en sacar lo mejor de su audiencia. Cortez es innovador y divertido, además de ser reconocido por su originalidad. Cuando El Terrible no está ocupado presentando Al Aire con El Terrible, disfruta pasar tiempo con su familia y sus aficiones al fútbol y la lucha libre.

Contacto: Vladimir Gómez, 786-805-2545, vgomez@spanishbroadcasting.com

FUENTE Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc.

LONDON, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — HSBC, Intel, Arup, and Tesco are among the global businesses backing the launch of a new business network created to help companies, cities, and governments confront emerging global economic and environmental shocks.

More than 600 businesses, with annual revenues of more than $3 trillion and employing more than 10 million people across 150 countries, underpin the collaboration of think tank The Resilience Shift and Resilience First, the world’s largest resilience business network.

The new network brings together disparate industries – from finance, to retail, technology, engineering and the built environment – to help governments and businesses promote economic recovery and shape post-pandemic stimulus that builds resilience and accelerates global decarbonisation efforts.

The spectrum of businesses involved ranges from Perkins & Will (Dar Group) to WSP, NBC Universal International, and Lloyds Register Foundation.

The new network will focus on helping create conditions for post-COVID economic recovery and the drive to net-zero emissions, as well as supporting the Roadmap to COP and UN Decade of Action.

It will also concentrate on wider resilience issues, including the complex interdependencies of international trade, resilience of supply chains, and cyber security.

Nigel Topping, recently appointed by the UK Government as the High Level Climate Action Champion for the COP26 UN climate talks, said he was delighted so many businesses had «answered the call» and that this new platform would help firms to decarbonise, and build their own resilience and that of their industry.

Jo da Silva, Global Sustainable Development Leader at Arup, said: «Over the last year, the importance of resilience has been made starkly clear; from firms enabling us all to adapt to online work or adapting to online product and services, through to healthcare services responding to the massive increase in intensive care cases, and even energy and transport networks operating on a skeleton staff.

«This ability to adapt to and recover from crisis or change will only become more critical as we navigate the implications of climate change, digital transformation, a growing population and less resources over the next 20 years.»

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

The following are available for interview

• UK-based (GMT): Simon Collins, Chair of Resilience First and former chair of KPMG
• US-based (EST): Seth Schultz, Executive Director of The Resilience Shift

ABOUT THE ORGANISATIONS:

About The Resilience Shift

The Resilience Shift, supported by Lloyd’s Register Foundation and Arup, has built a global community of interest from its roots in providing new collaborations, knowledge, tools and approaches to ensure a transformative approach to the resilience of critical infrastructure.

About Resilience First

Resilience First is a highly respected business-oriented membership organisation, supported by blue-chip Champions and key stakeholders in a cross-section of industry sectors, with a mission to advance resilience best practice across urban business communities.

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SOURCE The Resilience Shift; Resilience First

NINGBO, China, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The year is off to a good start at solar panel maker, Risen Energy Co., Ltd., with the first export shipment of its 210 wafer-based Titan series modules, auguring excellent growth prospects for the firm in global markets.

Risen Energy has completed the delivery of the world’s first 210 module order consisting of the high-efficiency Titan 500W modules shipped in batches to Ipoh, Malaysia-based energy provider Armani Energy Sdn Bhd.

In addition, the company has to date completed shipment of nearly 200MW of a 600MW module order that it received from Poland-based photovoltaic mounting systems manufacturer Corab in 2020. The order consists of Risen Energy’s full range of 210mm products that will be used in roof- and ground-mounted installations, among other application scenarios.

Risen Energy’s Brazilian customers have shown their appreciation with orders for 54MW and 160MW modules. Risen Energy’s 210 series modules have become the preferred choice among Brazilian buyers, reflecting the firm’s increasing penetration into the country’s distribution market. Leading Brazilian energy research organization Greener recently released the latest rankings of photovoltaic module makers’ imports into Brazil in 2020, with Risen Energy garnering the third spot within a lineup of 10 brands that make up 87% of the imports.

In South Korea, Risen Energy secured 130MW worth of orders in 2020 in partnership with SCG Solutions Co., Ltd, one of the largest distributors in the local market. All the end customers are major Korean firms, including the Korea Institute of Solar Energy (for its Jeonnam Solar Power Plant project) as well as food and beverage maker Nongshim (for roof-mounted installations atop its production facilities). The achievements laid a solid foundation for Risen Energy’s continued expansion in the Korean market.

In addition to the tie-up with SCG Solutions, Risen Energy has formed partnerships with several other leading players in Korea’s energy sector, demonstrating the firm’s proven results in the local market. Electric power equipment maker LS Electric chose Risen Energy’s 210 series modules for the entire distributed roof project at one of the Korean government’s consular offices in Japan. LS Electric also expressed its intention to collaborate with Risen Energy on upcoming large-scale projects.

As a leading global PV module manufacturer, Risen Energy continues its focus on technological innovation and on improving the quality of its services while working with many partners worldwide to reimagine and transform how energy is created and distributed.

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SOURCE Risen Energy Co., Ltd

VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. («West Fraser» or the «Company») (TSX and NYSE: WFG) announced today that it has entered into an automatic share purchase plan («ASPP«) with a broker in order to facilitate repurchases of West Fraser’s common shares (the «Shares«) under its previously announced normal course issuer bid («NCIB«).

West Fraser previously announced that it had received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange («TSX«) to purchase up to 6,044,000 of its Shares, representing approximately 5% of the Company’s issued and outstanding Shares, during the 12-month period commencing February 17, 2021 and terminating February 16, 2022. The Company will make purchases pursuant to the NCIB on the open market through the facilities of the TSX, the New York Stock Exchange («NYSE«) or Canadian or U.S. alternative trading systems, if eligible, in accordance with the requirements of the TSX and applicable securities laws.

Under the ASPP, West Fraser’s broker may purchase Shares from the date of the ASPP until the end of the NCIB, including at times when the Company ordinarily would not be active in the market due to insider trading rules and its own internal trading blackout periods. Purchases will be made by West Fraser’s broker at such prices, parameters and trading instructions as determined from time to time in the discretion of the Company in compliance with the applicable securities rules and as set out in the ASPP. Outside of these blackout periods, Shares may continue to be purchased in West Fraser’s discretion, including under the ASPP, subject to applicable law. The ASPP has been entered into in accordance with the requirements of applicable securities laws.

The Company

West Fraser is a diversified wood products company producing lumber, OSB, LVL, MDF, plywood, pulp, newsprint, wood chips, other residuals, and energy with facilities across Canada, in the southern United States and in Europe.

Forward-Looking Statements

This News Release contains certain forward-looking statements about potential future developments, in particular those relating to the intent of West Fraser to purchase and cancel Shares, the price of West Fraser Shares in comparison to West Fraser’s assessment of their value, the number of Shares that may be purchased and the terms of West Fraser’s normal course issuer bid and to the purchase of Shares of West Fraser by its agent for the normal course issuer bid pursuant to the terms of the automatic share purchase plan. These forward-looking statements are presented to provide reasonable guidance to the reader. Their accuracy and the actual timing of such purchases depend on and are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties and other factors, including West Fraser’s results of operations and changes in general market conditions. Accordingly, readers should exercise caution in relying upon forward-looking statements and West Fraser undertakes no obligation to publicly revise them to reflect subsequent events or circumstances except as required by applicable securities laws.

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SOURCE West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, 24 de febrero de 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — La Coalición para la Vivienda de Florida, el principal proveedor del estado sin fines de lucro de capacitación y asistencia técnica dedicada a lograr viviendas asequibles, desde terminar con la falta de vivienda hasta ser propietario de una vivienda por primera vez, anunció hoy la creación de un nuevo Centro para la Equidad Racial: www.centerforracialequity.org

El Centro para la Equidad Racial de la Coalición para la Vivienda de Florida servirá como una plataforma compuesta para los esfuerzos de la Coalición centrados en la raza y la equidad en las inversiones públicas y privadas, las regulaciones y los marcos legales y de políticas que dan forma a los vecindarios, ciudades y regiones de Florida.

«Sabemos dos cosas: Florida, como cualquier otro estado de la nación, tiene un problema de vivienda íntimamente relacionado con la raza; y las ciudades de Florida suelen recurrir a la Coalición para que les ayude a resolver los problemas de vivienda», dijo la presidenta y directora ejecutiva de la Coalición, Jaimie Ross. «¿Cuál es el enfoque correcto que deben adoptar las comunidades locales? No existen puntos de referencia obvios y poca o ninguna orientación de política estatal para indicar un enfoque de trabajo único. Allí es donde la Coalición puede ayudar», agregó.

La idea del Centro surgió de discusiones entre el personal de la Coalición en respuesta a las protestas por Black Lives Matter que ocurrieron a nivel nacional a lo largo del 2020. «Cada uno de nosotros sintió la necesidad de responder a la urgencia del momento de una manera reflexiva y deliberada y que pudiera mover el dial a largo plazo», dijo el director de programas de la Coalición, Ashon Nesbitt.

Cerrar la brecha de disparidad racial en la propiedad de viviendas
Un aspecto central de sus esfuerzos iniciales es el programa fundamental Closing the Gap (Cerrar la brecha), un programa de subvenciones de contrapartida para los municipios. Con fondos de los principales aseguradores de valores Bank of America y Wells Fargo, el programa proporciona una combinación de asistencia técnica y recursos en proporción 3:1 para cerrar la brecha en la tasa de propiedad de viviendas entre los hogares afroamericanos y blancos.

«Bank of America está ayudando a promover la igualdad racial y las oportunidades económicas, con un enfoque particular en ayudar a crear oportunidades para las personas y comunidades de color», dijo Gene Schaefer, presidente del mercado de Miami de Bank of America. «Estamos comprometidos a ayudar a las familias y comunidades multiculturales a comenzar a construir riqueza personal y legado familiar a través del poder de la propiedad de una vivienda».

El Centro para la Equidad Racial de la Coalición para la Vivienda de Florida se está lanzando con fondos de la Fundación Wells Fargo, que se centra en promover la equidad racial y crear caminos hacia viviendas seguras y asequibles.

«Tener un lugar seguro y asequible al que llamar hogar es esencial para ayudar a sentar las bases del bienestar, la dignidad y las oportunidades económicas», dijo Eileen Fitzgerald, directora de filantropía de asequibilidad de viviendas de Wells Fargo. «Con nuestro apoyo al Centro para la Equidad Racial de la Coalición, esperamos inspirar un cambio significativo en una larga historia de desigualdad sistémica, injusticia, pérdida de riqueza e inestabilidad en la vivienda que experimentan las personas de color, particularmente durante tiempos de dificultades económicas.  Nuestro objetivo es construir un futuro más incluyente y sostenible en el que todos puedan tener un lugar asequible y de calidad al que puedan llamar hogar».

Otros programas con que se está lanzando el Centro incluyen:

Curso en línea Leading with Equity (Liderar con equidad)
Funders Collaborative & Allies (Colaboradores y aliados de financiadores)  =
Glossary of Shared Language (Glosario de lenguaje compartido)
Programa de pasantías del HBCU

FUENTE Florida Housing Coalition