The Board of Directors of AB Volvo has decided to appoint Olof Persson, 46, currently President of Volvo Construction Equipment, as the new President and Chief Executive Officer of Volvo. Olof Persson will assume the position as President of AB Volvo and CEO of the Volvo Group on September 1 this year when Leif Johansson, […]

       
30 MAY - 3 JUNE 2011
The World Fair for the Forestry and Wood Industries LIGNA HANNOVER is the most international trade show of its kind worldwide. More than half of the exhibiting companies come from outside Germany. http://www.ligna.de/homepage_e

Timberland owners in the US South struggled in 2010, as low demand for sawtimber and prices below historical norms forced them to delay sawtimber sales beyond the dates set in their timberland management plans. Landowners with smaller timber took advantage of pulpwood markets, however, thinning timber tracts or cutting pulpwood to meet increased demand from […]

Chinese demand for logs and healthy pulp and paper demand have led to a turnaround in Northwest log prices, tightening margins for saw and plywood mills. Prices have eclipsed the levels set May 2010, when a brief spike in lumber prices drove Douglas fir domestic logs over $525/MBF for the first time in two years […]

The Joint Institute of Foresters of Australia/NZ Institute of Forestry ANZIF Conference 2011 will be held at the Sky City Conference Centre in Auckland on 2-5 May 2011. The conference, “Pacific Forestry - Growing a Forestry Future” is a conference targeting forestry policy makers, managers and practitioners from the South Pacific region.

The stated objective of the Russian log export tax was to reduce raw log exports and stimulate construction of the domestic log-processing industry. During the last four years, this objective has been a major impetus for the building of numerous additions to existing log-processing plants and new greenfield sawmills, plywood/veneer mills, engineered board plants and […]