 Even as new housing projects start to reappear and factories start producing more once again, the industry still continues to turn itself to non traditional markets and tries to sell cunk of resinous wood of smaller diameter

The peat industry of Bas-Saint-Laurent extracts around 45% of the peat production of Quebec and builds specialized transformation tools de tourbe.There are around twenty companies in this industry which employ 1 500 and export 80% of their.Lately, this industry has made a great effort in converging with the agroenvironnemental industry, in fields like biofiltration, composting, agriculture and horticulture

Around 2002, a number of initiatives were taken by the producers of the industry and the government of Quebec to develop the industry.