John Deere Forestry Oy has won the Technical Creativity award from the City of Tampere for the design of TimberLinkTM, a system for measuring the performance and condition of forest machines.
The John Deere team comprised Arto Peltomaa, Kari Lehmusvaara and Aki Putkonen was granted the award in recognition of their work in developing the performance […]

Leading equipment suppliers Ponsse and Tigercat have gone head-to-head on the Discovery channel’s Mean Machines program aired in Canada and the United Kingdon earlier this year.
The Ponsse BuffaloKing and a Tigercat 1075 were put through their paces in tests of speed, accuracy, load capacity, precision and stability.

A mediator has been appointed to try to broker a deal on the fate of 29,000 acres of giant, 2,000-year-old California redwood trees, which environmentalists and loggers battled over in the 1990s, according to an ENN report.
US Judge Richard Schmidt expressed frustration at the slow pace Maxxam subsidiary Pacific Lumber was moving since filing for […]

Research by management consulting firm ÉEM has indicated certification for wood and paper products by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is the most effective certification system for managing Canadian forests, a GreenBiz.com report said.
The results compare FSC certification to three other standards used in Canada, the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), and […]