With business performing rather well in both USA performance fibres and with good 2011 timberland results thanks to stronger export demand & pricing on Rayonier’s Pacific Northwest timberlands as well as its New Zealand joint-venture, the USA-parent company Rayonier has announced a stock split and increased dividend.

Obtala Resources Limited (AIM:OBT), the natural resource investment and development company, today announces that it has concluded a Share Purchase Agreement (”SPA”) to acquire a private Mozambique registered company (”Acquisition”). The vendor holds a forestry concession in north-east Mozambique, with an application pending to significantly increase the land area under licence. Highlights:

Obtala controlled subsidiary, Montara […]

Push aside dated notions of Canada’s forest sector as dominated by lumberjacks focused solely on logging trees and processing the wood. Today’s forest sector is high-tech, with employees skilled in biochemistry, genetics, computer modelling, satellite imagery, and digital processing writes Chadwick Wasilenkoff  in the Vancouver Sun.

The Nebraska Forest Service has funds available to help interested institutions determine whether they are candidates for conversion to woody biomass energy.
Funded through a U.S. Forest Service Redesign Grant, the funds are available to cover up to half the cost of woody biomass feasibility studies for public and private institutions that are interested in converting […]

 
The last time the SFPA show was in Atlanta (2007), USNR built a deck made of premium Southern Yellow Pine. And it made quite a splash, allowing for a bird’s eye view of our primary breakdown equipment.
This year the action is at the back end of the mill and the planer mill, specifically fencing, trimming […]

Buoyed by near-record pulp prices, the Canadian forest industry has embarked on a research-and-development program that is being described as second to none in Canada. The Canadian forestry sector has built and is now implementing a strong innovation strategy that includes developing new bio-products from pulp, said Jim Dangerfield, president of the cooperative forest research […]