Tembec, an integrated forest products company with operations in Canada and France, has announced plans to build a C$8.4-million pilot plant to develop stronger and more durable structural material made from pulp and modified phenolic resin. The federal and Quebec governments are each contributing C$3.45 million.

Softwood bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp (BCTMP) producer Winstone Pulp International Ltd. in New Zealand has told customers in Asia that it plans to increase its price by US$30 per tonne for all of its brightness grades. Winstone, which produces more than 160,000 tonnes/year of radiata pine BCTMP at its Karioi mill, made the announcement on 11 […]

Despite some risks in the short term, an increasingly positive global economic outlook will drive the demand for plywood and oriented strand board (OSB) over the five years from 2011 to 2015, according to BIS Shrapnel.

 At the top of forest contractors’ wish list is a harvester that can travel across water. Such a thing doesn’t exist but at SkogsElmia machinery manufacturer Ponsse is demonstrating how close we can get with today’s technology.
“We’re exhibiting eight-wheelers in all size categories,” says Jerry Wannberg, the head of Ponsse Sweden.

TILBURY could soon be home to the world’s largest biomass plant after its power station got permission to start vital works.reports the UK’s Thurrock Gazette.

Hakan Ekstrom, a principal of United States-based Wood Resources International in an article this week said reconstruction of up to 150,000 buildings in northern Japan in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March 11 will boost NZ log exports.