Söderhamn Eriksson has signed a contract with James Jones & Sons in Scotland for the delivery of machinery worth some €11 million. The order comprises debarking, log intake, sawline, edging and waste handling.
The sawline features the most advanced technology for log and cant feeding, reducing, band sawing and edging and will produce 140,000 cu/m lumber/shift […]

With the first edition of International Forest Industries set to land on the desks of the global forestry community in early December, the IFI editorial team has started putting together stories and information for the first edition of the New Year.
The launch edition of the magazine included a general overview of current industry issues through […]

Nick Kirby will take up the post of Retail Country Manager and Managing Director, United Kingdom and Ireland, for John Deere Forestry, starting next year.
Kirby will be responsible for sales and marketing of John Deere Forestry in United Kingdom and Ireland putting to use his 25 years of experience in sales and marketing within the […]

The 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2010.
The conference will take place from the June 28 to July 2, 2010, and will be hosted by the British Forestry Commission on behalf of the United Kingdom. The event was last hosted in the UK in 1974.
Preparations are under way to agree […]

International forest products company. Weyerhaeuser, has signed a letter of intent to purchase the Idabel sawmill owned by Freeman Brothers also doing business as Bibler Brothers Lumber Company.
Idabel is currently a contract sawmill for Weyerhaeuser and a chip supplier for Weyerhaeuser’s Valliant, Okla., containerboard mill. It employs approximately 130 people and has the capacity to […]

Major equipment supplier, The Pöyry Group, has recorded improved net sales for the first nine months of this year of €512.7 million and a pre-tax profit of €53.2 million, partly thanks to a growing contribution from its forest industry.
Net sales for the corresponding period in 2006 were almost 14% lower at €450.9 million, with a […]