February 2012  (4)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 03: TPT Export market report
• 01: John Deere unveils 844K Series II wheel loader at World of Concrete, Las Vegas
• 01: John Deere Power Systems Exhibits, introduces emissions Hub blog at World of Concrete 2012
• 01: New town office for AUSTimber2012

January 2012  (17)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 27: Global sawlog prices fall for first time since 2009
• 27: Industrial wood pellet prices flat in Europe
• 27: Carbon Forestry 2012 planned for Australasia
• 24: Bruks at centre of A&J Scott, UK expansion
• 20: Comact sells 50th GradExpert
• 20: The 16th KWF- Meeting - June 13 to 16 in Bopfingen
• 20: Read your newspaper then use it to drive to work
• 20: North American pellet grew almost triple the growth rate of European production
• 16: Bandit Model 2250XP brings beltless hydrostatic drive to small stump grinders
• 12: Russia finally joins WTO
• 11: MTU showcasing new engines at INTERMAT 2012
• 10: Logset - The first 10F Titan on display in Canada
• 10: Morbark announces Nortrax Inc. as exclusive tree care products dealer for Florida
• 10: Bandit chippers - New For 2012 - “XTreme” wear parts
• 10: Tigercat appoint Allwood Equipment LLC in Georgia
• 10: John Deere Adds Three Dynamic and Efficient Track Models to New Scraper Special Series Tractor Line
• 10: Handheld acquires TimbaTec to strengthen central european presence

December 2011  (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 20: Deere completes record year with fourth-quarter earnings of $670 Million
• 20: y Smith, EVP and CFO of SUPERVALU, elected to Deere & Company board of directors
• 07: Caterpillar launches new full tail swing track Feller Bunchers with upgraded hydraulics and performance
• 07: Softwood dumping investigation
• 07: Innovatek Ltd - Germany beckons - KWF show in June 2012
• 07: Fortec companies report market plateau after strong rise
• 02: Expo Site Sales boom - AUSTimber 2012 is the largest forestry and timber expo in the Southern Hemisphere -all the active pine harvesting sites are now sold and they are developing new sites to meet the demand
• 02: NZ sawn timber exports drop away

November 2011  (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 30: USNR - Better operation with variable speed independent deck drive tower
• 22: Tigercat’s new 880 logger starts strong
• 21: Rotobec has introduced new saws “Powered by Hultdins”
• 11: New from Komptech - Mobile stone separator ‘Stonefex’
• 11: Lucidyne Technologies Inc.- Sierra Pacific Buys GradeScan® for Sonora and Quincy
• 10: CBI’s Magnum Force new disc chipper 754
• 10: Deere selected as a top company for leadership development
• 01: Prinoth’s Beaver® baring it’s teeth in global mulching sector

October 2011  (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 31: CBI’s new integrated, high-capacity chipping system - The Magnum Force Flail 604
• 26: Deriving vehicle fuel from wood
• 26: Wood fibre costs reach new highs
• 26: Vermeer HG6000 features new productivity enhancements and Tier 4 engine
• 14: John Deere adds high-speed felling head option to J-Series tracked Feller Bunchers
• 14: Japan reconstruction draws NZ wood panels
• 14: Eucalyptus from NZ port top wood export
• 14: Norske Skog NZ mill not for sale

September 2011  (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 23: Bandit Industries - New equipment, new options, and new hybrid technology
• 23: Bandit dealer meeting 2011 a huge success
• 15: Japan forest products market for B.C. economy
• 15: Komatsu America launches Komatsu CARE™
• 15: Metso shuffles business units, foresees growth in biopower
• 05: Morbark adds to line of ADR compliant brush chippers
• 05: Morbark Names New President
• 01: John Deere - New XUVs provide off-road performance, comfort, and multi-passenger capability

August 2011  (12)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 26: John Deere - Virtual harvester to be displayed in Rotorua
• 26: John Deere sales up 50%
• 26: Finnish sawmill machinery for Australian mill
• 12: Clément Puybaret appointed Managing Director of Ponsse S.A.S.
• 12: NZ’s first operational continuous timber drying kiln
• 12: China imports of BC lumber jump 97%
• 12: Tools for improving forest mapping and inventory
• 12: First CLT manufacturing in southern hemisphere
• 05: RENEXPO - Meeting point of the wood energy sector
• 03: Tiong family adds to New Zealand East Coast forests
• 03: AFPA announces new CEO
• 03: Tpt Forests New Zealand - market report

July 2011  (25)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 27: Rayonier USA Increases Dividend
• 27: Forestry Acquisition, Mozambique
• 22: Future of Canada’s forestry sector is renewable
• 22: The Nebraska Forest Service - funds available for woody biomass conversion
• 18: USNR displays machinery in motion at SFPA Expo Atlanta
• 18: $110 million on research for Canada’s forest sector
• 18: Kebonization for timber treatment
• 18: Forest fire management tools timely
• 18: Impact of soaring Chinese demand for logs and lumber
• 15: Forests absorb one third our fossil fuel emissions
• 11: Peterson - 5710C Track mounted horizontal grinder
• 08: Tough times ahead for Australian housing construction
• 08: Timber movement control technology transfered
• 08: Wood costs for pulp manufacturers on the rise
• 07: John Deere adds heavy-duty undercarriage option to 753J tracked feller buncher
• 07: USA - GFP puts forests on market
• 07: New Zealand Log Prices - June 2011
• 05: New technology enables scientists to map rainforest biodiversity by airplane
• 05: Indonesian president urges other countries not to buy illegally logged wood from Indonesia
• 05: Thomson Airways set for first commercial UK biofuels flight
• 05: Wood costs for pulp manufacturers worldwide are on the rise
• 05: Increased pre-commercial thinning and reduced planting in 2010
• 05: Working hours in forestry increased by 6 percent in 2010
• 04: 2012 Forestry Finance event call for presentations
• 04: Drop in NZ export log prices

June 2011  (15)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 28: A new guide to enhancing forest machine efficiency
• 28: Komatsu Finding New Contracts World Wide
• 28: New Zealand Log Prices - June 2011
• 27: Australian mapping resource proving popular
• 24: John Deere Adds Heavy-Duty Undercarriage Option to 753J Tracked Feller Buncher
• 24: North America supply a risk to NZ
• 24: Status of proposed Russian log export tax reduction
• 23: Woodmizer - Ligna Messe, Hannover, Germany, 30 May - 3 June 2011
• 23: Wood-Mizer rallies to smaller wood harvesting kit trend at SkogsElmia fair, Sweden
• 23: The MenSe RPK –energy wood harvesting head with clearing blade – for simultaneous clearing and harvesting.
• 23: NAARVA has launched a new advanced energy wood head with bundle feeding.
• 10: Stricter emissions regulations require better oils
• 10: The forest industry’s strongest woman
• 10:  SFI Grant helps Audubon New York link forest management to bird conservation
• 02: Skogs Elmia - The surprise of the fair was that so many forest contractors were among the visitors.

May 2011  (22)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 24: News from Skogs Elmia -New Head from NAARVA
• 24: RUUKKI GROUP SELLS FINNISH SAWMILL BUSINESS
• 24: News from Skogs Elmia - The MenSe RPK -energy wood harvesting head
• 23: Morbark Introduces 3800XL Horizontal Grinder
• 23: BNZ Technology Clinics for forestry industry
• 23: Fierce competition over world’s wood supply
• 23: UK emissions targets ramped up to 50%
• 23: Pacific forestry professionals to work closer together
• 16: World premiere of Ponsse’s twenty tonner
• 13: CONEXPO - A big success for Bandit Industries
• 13: Bandit - Efficiency, longevity and production make the model 1390XP a popular 15-inch chipper
• 13: Softwood lumber demand jumps 18% last year
• 10: EWD - NKU 150 - compact double arbor circular resaw for the packaging lumber industry
• 10: EWD - Revolutionary new system to guide the sawblade of a bandsaw
• 09: Russian log and lumber exports increased substantially in 1Q/11 thanks to higher wood demand in China, Finland and Japan
• 06: Recent Corporate activities
• 06: Chinese logging ban impacting future log supplies
• 05: Logmax - New head for eucalyptus harvesting
• 03: East Asia Minerals announces acquisition of 50% of Carbon Conservation Pty Ltd.
• 03: Huntsman Polyurethanes joins Bark Biorefinery Consortium
• 03: West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation and MeadWestvaco committed to species restoration as part of SFI conservation gra
• 03: U.S. announces funding for biomass R&D

April 2011  (16)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 28: Pension Funds Rev Up Their Chainsaws – Prima Colombia Hardwood
• 27: Ponsse appointments
• 27: Epec Oy’s forest machine information system and software product development unit in Kajaani to transfer to Ponsse Plc
• 27: China’s Imports Soar in 2010 - led by Logs (+22%) and Lumber (+49%)
• 27: West Fraser largest North American lumber producer
• 27: Speed construction demonstrated in Beijing
• 27: $8.4 m pilot plant for stronger structural materials
• 27: Pulp price rises announced for Asia
• 27: Global demand for plywood and OSB increasing
• 20: Ponsse exhibits a harvester that can almost walk on water
• 01: World’s biggest biomass plant plan approved
• 01: Japan likely to boost log imports
• 01: Australian structural softwood product prices stable
• 01: The SawTECH events have detailed the very latest technologies, tools, innovations and operating practices that can be adopted by local sawmiller’s to improve their profitability.
• 01: Residues to revenue 2011 -TURNING BIO-ENERGY POTENTIAL INTO PROFIT
• 01: Rising shipping costs for Kiwi exporters

March 2011  (12)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 30: Randon exhibits at The 1st Brazil in Eastern Africa EXPO 2011, Nairobi – Kenya.
• 30: Press welcomed to SkogsElmia - the largest forestry fair in Northern Europe!
• 30: CONEXPO-CON/AGG & IFPE 2011 declared a resounding success
• 17: Deere announces major new investments in Russia
• 17: Update on Russian Log Export Tax
• 17: First commerical US biofuels plant planned this year
• 16: Olof Persson appointed new Volvo CEO
• 08: The world fair for the forestry and wood industries - LIGNA HANNOVER 2011
• 08: 2010 Delivered Pulpwood prices at historic highs in south, according to Forest2Market
• 08: NORTHWEST LOG PRICES RECOVER THANKS TO CHINA AND PULP AND PAPER
• 07: ANZIF Conference planned for Auckland in May
• 07: New industry investment appearing in Russia

February 2011  (14)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 24: U.S. lumber prices expected to spike
• 24: Global sawlog prices rise in 2010
• 22: China’s log & lumber imports soar in 2010
• 22: Two forestry companies in Western Australia sold
• 22: New Tigercat District Manager for Russia
• 18: John Deere Construction and Forestry sales climb 81 percent
• 18: New knuckleboom log loader safety manual available from AEM
• 18: ANDRITZ to supply pressurized refining
• 17: Fecon introduces the FTX600
• 12: China’s log & lumber imports soar in 2010
• 12: Two forestry companies in Western Australia sold
• 07: New Cat® Wheel Harvester cab offers more comfort and same great visibility
• 07: New Holland Construction introduces Tier IV Interim compliant equipment at Samoter 2011
• 07: UK Forest for sale

January 2011  (7)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 24: AB Epquiment to represent Tigercat in New Zealand
• 19: Ferronordic Machines L.L.C. appointed as distributors of Logset forest machines in Russian Federation
• 19: Executive Director, Corporate Development and Strategy Timo Karppinen invited to join the Ponsse Plc’s Management Team
• 14: JOHN DEERE SKIDS INTO ABC’S “EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION”
• 13: Scandinavia’s leading venue for the future of forestry
• 13: SFI INC. APPOINTS PETER JOHNSON AS SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR
• 04: Biomass Crop Assistance Program

December 2010  (9)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 24: VOLVO TESTS NEW TECHNOLOGY IN TIMBER HAULER PROJECT
• 20: Australia - Illegal logging legislation welcomed
• 20: Hammel VB 850 DK Shredder delivered in the Netherlands
• 20: Swiss Wood Firm To Invest 900 Million Euros In Tunisia
• 14: Morbark’s passport to success in Las Vegas
• 14: MARYLAND STATE FORESTER ELECTED TO SFI INC. BOARD
• 03: World’s largest wood pellet plant planned
• 03: EU - Russia deal could end log export tariffs
• 01: Novel services for tropical forest monitoring with satellite

November 2010  (16)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 26: New Zealand Log Prices - November 2010
• 26: Plantation Energy Australia signs first Asian export deal
• 25: Bandit’s model 2150XP goes to school with Ace Gallagher Stump Grinding
• 25: Bandit Industries expands line of self-propelled whole tree chippers
• 22: Canada continues to build strong ties with China
• 22: Global Wood Chip Price Indices being launched
• 12: Bandit Industries Model 1890 track debuts on national stage
• 11: Ruukki Group to pull out of pulp mill and sawmill project in Russia
• 09: RWE INNOGY BUILDS FIRST BIOMASS COGENERATION PLANT IN SICILY
• 05: NZ Forestry credits off to Japan
• 05: Sino-Forest acquires 13,000 ha of NZ forests
• 02: Honeywell’s Envergent Technologies selection confirmed by High North Bioresources for renewable energy project
• 02: LIGNA HANNOVER 2011 taking place from May 30 to June 3 in Hanover,
• 01: New Valmet head for thinning pros
• 01: New Head of Marketing at Komatsu Forest
• 01: Saving the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil

October 2010  (12)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 27: Doppstadt’s new mobile Screw Extruder for organic waste: BIOPRESS 205
• 27: Louisiana Machinery expands DoppstadtUS team
• 25: JOHN DEERE FINANCIAL IS NEW NAME FOR DIVISION OF DEERE & COMPANY
• 25: New Zealand - ETS will outlive Kyoto
• 25: China MDF soaring as rest of the World slows
• 22: Woody biomass prices in the US increase
• 21: Brazilian Forest Fair - Expoforest 2011
• 18: Hurdle Machine Works in further global expansion
• 18: New Zealand truckers chase extra permits
• 15: LIGNA HANNOVER 2011: innovative - efficient - trendsetting
• 11: LOGSET ladies prove a hit at APF 2010 Titan 10f launch
• 05: Bandit Industries Model 2290 Track Whole Tree Chipper Adds Mobility to Land Clearing Operations

September 2010  (19)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 30: Book a place at one of Sweden’s most important trade fairs - Skogsnolia 2011
• 30: LOGSET LAUNCHED IT’S NEW 10F TITAN FORWARDER AT THE APF 2010 SHOW IN ENGLAND
• 27: PrimeTech′s new tracked prime mover - PT 300
• 27: New Zealand Log Prices - September 2010
• 27: Australia - MIS investors more hopeful
• 22: AFM-Forest Ltd makes a move
• 22: Poland - New Taxus SI remote sensing system
• 20: DuraTech introduces 5064 mid-sized horizontal grinder
• 20: Vermeer promotes new chippers for Europe
• 17: Recent Economic Indicators for the Wood Products Industry
• 17: US$300B forest damage in recent Russian wildfires
• 15: Tigercat Ships 10,000th Machine
• 14: DOLL Fahrzeugbau AG at the IAA 2010 Commercial Vehicles Show
• 13: IFAT 2010: Komptech showcases spectacular new products in the shredding and separation sectors
• 13: Five Year LMI Warranty Now Available for Chroma+scan Sensors
• 10: Chinese lumber production increasing 60% in five years
• 10: China drafting forestry bio-energy plan
• 09: Ponsse’s new feed roller solutions enhance the multi stemming EH25 energy wood harvester head
• 09: Deere Reports Third-Quarter Earnings of $617 Million

August 2010  (5)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 10: Komptech challenges operators to duel.
• 09: Peterson launch new 4310 Track Mounted Drum Chipper
• 02: John Deere Responds to Logger Challenges With Improved H-Series Skidders
• 02: 30% wood harvest expansion projected for Chile
• 02: Chinese log imports taking a dive in 2009

July 2010  (17)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 27: Cat® felling heads more durable and productive
• 22: Valmet’s new function for steep terrain
• 22: Direct support in control system sets new standard for forest machine service
• 20: Many new forwarder features from Valmet
• 20: Work on AU$2B SA mill by mid-2011 or just Pulp fiction?
• 20: Chinese wood deficit good news for NZ wood exporters
• 09: Australia increases both Eucalyptus and pine chip exports
• 09: NZ forestry production and trade data released
• 05: LMI Technologies offers a 5 Year Warranty on its chroma+scan products
• 05: Eucalyptus log prices in Brazil jumped 25%
• 05: JOHN DEERE LAUNCHES EDUCATIONAL WOODY BIOMASS WEBSITE
• 02: More than just a comfortable ride: Bandit Model 3090 Track Chipper
• 02: John Deer’s D-Series Knuckleboom loaders deliver higher productivity and fuel efficency
• 02: NZ mapping resource still causing plenty of interest
• 02: New Zealand Log Prices - June 2010
• 02: Karelia: OSB mill to be launched in 2012
• 02: Metso to supply roll wrapping machine to Russian mill

June 2010  (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 29: New slash bundler from John Deere
• 29: Morbark world premiere for mobile chipper at Jönköping Sweden
• 15: Leslie Equipment Company joins Bandit
• 11: Global sawlog prices up 17% in 12 months
• 11: Norway leads the way
• 09: Logset appoint new Managing Director
• 02: John Deere 900 KH-Series Tracked Harvesters Offer Extra Power and Productivity
• 02: Waratah Harvesting Heads Updated

May 2010  (7)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 21: NZ Industry mapping resource snapped up
• 13: Morbark Introduces Compact Stand-Alone Flail
• 12: Sex bioenergy conferences in one
• 10: Magic night out in Sweden
• 10: John Deere officially opens new manufacturing facility in Russia
• 10: John Deere Introduces Revolutionary E-Series to North America
• 05: Morbark adds 25/36 Whole Tree Chipper to Line-up

April 2010  (7)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 19: International Forest Industries is preparing its annual technology review for the Cut-to-Length harvesting sector
• 19: John Deere 900 KH-Series Tracked Harvesters Offer Extra Power and Productivity
• 19: MPM Engineering has the Kraft
• 19: New Zealand on the map
• 16: Waratah Announces the HTH618C - a Premium Debarker/Delimber
• 15: Tigercat retails prototype 1135 harvester
• 14: World Bioenergy 2010 Jönköping Sweden, 25–27 May - A global window for bioenergy

March 2010  (9)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 25: Finnish stevedores’ strike finishes after 16 days
• 25: French company turns up the heat - biomass torrefaction technology
• 12: Three new Sustainable Forestry Funds launched
• 12: New Zealand coal and thermal fuels producer Solid Energy fired up
• 10: CHINA LOGS ANOTHER BIG INCREASE
• 10: SFI Marks 2,000 Chain-of-Custody Certified Locations
• 09: Logset gear up in the UK
• 05: Forest Fires Put Carbon Credits At Risk - NZ
• 02: Interforst 2010 - one of the leading trade fairs for the international forestry industry.

February 2010  (10)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 26: Matariki completes NZ$167 million forest investment
• 26: Hancock Natural Resource Group Inc., Global Forest Partners LP and Rayonier Inc in bidding war
• 25: Gunns suffer as profits go walkabout
• 24: Pulp fiction? Asian forestry giant takes second look at Mackenzie pulp mill
• 16: Weyerhaeuser & Mitsubishi jointly exploring biomass
• 16: Annual forestry exports up over 6 percent during 2009
• 16: The New US Federal Program BCAP is Intended to Increase the Supply of Woody Biomass.
• 01: World’s largest pellet factory planned in U.S.
• 01: Will US programme increase the supply of woody biomass?
• 01: NZ’s sawmilling consolidation nears completion

January 2010  (2)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 12: Indonesia. A lot of hot air or the real deal?
• 06: First-Ever Study Quantifies the Economic Impact of Private, Working Forests in the U.S.

December 2009  (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 16: ESRI Supports Guyana’s Low-Carbon Development Strategy
• 10: Chinese order more chips
• 10: Forest Companies Fined for Price-Fixing
• 06: New Tigercat product: LS855C shovel logger
• 04: Söderhamn Eriksson ramping up down under
• 02: Ontario Invites Proposals For Wood Supply
• 01: Indonesia’s loggers scrutinised ahead of climate summit in Copenhagen
• 01: Sask. signs logging deal with 10 groups

November 2009  (3)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 19: Updated softwood lumber market outlook for the US
• 13: Bio-fuel levy the last straw for NZ forest owners
• 12: Tigercat signs F5 in US southwest

October 2009  (4)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 30: Taxing times
• 28: “very possibly the most bio-diverse, rich, temperate area on earth” still at risk
• 28: ON THE ROAD AGAIN
• 09: Insight and Strategies for Delivering Superior Returns at the 6th Timberland Investment World Summit

September 2009  (11)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 28: Extensive Biomass recovery using AHWI’S Harvester H600
• 25: SFI HEADS INTO 2010 WITH REVISED STANDARD AND SOLID GROWTH
• 21: Insight and Strategies for Delivering Superior Returns at the 6th Timberland Investment World Summit
• 18: International Forest Industries December - January 2012 now online. Book into Feb - March 2012 and beyond
• 14: Carmanah is King
• 11: UNECE market review
• 07: Give credit where its due
• 07: Profit and Loss
• 07: Russia postpones timber tariffs until 2011
• 07: Sweden consumes more than 20% of the world’s wood pellets and demand is growing
• 02: Tigercat 630D skidder hits the market

August 2009  (10)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 24: Morbark Inc. introduces grinder conversion kit
• 24: US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack recently announced a New Direction And Vision For America’s Forests
• 24: MGT POWER HAVE ANNOUNCED PLANS FOR 295MW BIOMASS POWER STATION
• 17: Insight and Strategies for Delivering Superior Returns at the 6th Timberland Investment World Summit
• 17: One-Half of North American OSB capacity closed
• 14: Progress on tropical forest scheme
• 14: Brazil opposes forest carbon trading
• 14: Kenya to Plant 7.6 Billion Trees to Check Deforestation
• 14: Wood costs were 53% of the total production costs for pulp mills worldwide in the
• 14: Bangladesh to Get $19 Million for Reforestation Project

July 2009  (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 31: Mastering the Ultimate Inflation Hedge
• 30: All-time-low on wood fiber costs in the US South
• 30: Ilim Group allocates nearly RUR 53 million for construction of forest roads in the Irkutsk oblast
• 30: Ilim Group wins Logger ’09 competition
• 30: Metso to supply biomass boiler plant to Finland
• 21: 6th Timberland Investment World Summit - October 26-28, 2009 New York
• 14: Growing on trees
• 02: III World Bamboo Congress and Expo Convenes September 16-18 in Bangkok - Focus on Bamboo and Environment

June 2009  (9)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 25: Wood chip import prices to Japan reached record highs in the 4Q/08*
• 25: Forestry returns outperform the rest over three years, says IPD
• 23: ABORIGINAL PRINTING AWARDED SFI CERTIFICATION
• 18: BOISE CASCADE DELIVER ON SFI CHAIN-OF-CUSTODY-CERTIFICATION
• 12: LOGSET - FUEL ECONOMY TAKEN TO NEXT LEVEL
• 11: John Deere introduces 540H and 548H skidders
• 09: RESIDUES TO REVENUES 2009 - Australia & New Zealand
• 08: New thinning harvester from Valmet
• 01: IFI JUNE ISSUE 2009 - ELMIA WOOD

May 2009  (2)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 27: Elmia Wood June 2 - International Slash Conference
• 07: INTERNATIONAL FOREST INDUSTRIES (IFI)

April 2009  (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 27: Tigercat releases prototype 480 track mulcher
• 23: Fiber costs down in US South
• 23: Volvo cuts deeper into the forest at Elmia Wood
• 03: Metso to rebuild Stora Enso’s board line with calendar
• 03: The chips are down in Canada Q4
• 03: Ligna Hannover to show the way forward
• 03: Morbark Demo Days set for May 7-8
• 01: Vietnam’s forests grow in importance

March 2009  (7)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 27: WWF backs 2008 certification scheme but won’t commit
• 27: New software for faster and more cost-efficient production
• 27: Engineered wood industry: saving money by using less
• 25: Broad-based machinery programme as Volvo focuses on the forest industry
• 25: Decline in global demand for forest products reduces timber prices in China,
• 07: Russia joins PEFC as demand rises
• 06: New WWF report values price of Amazon’s ecological services, recommends FSC certification

February 2009  (5)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 27: The good and the bad in Cameroon
• 25: Wood pellet producers are increasingly competing with pulp manufacturers for wood fibre
• 19: The role of national and international timber companies in fuelling Liberia’s civil war
• 16: ESRI and Microsoft to support reforestation efforts in Kenya
• 07: Congo Basin milestones in Gabon

January 2009  (11)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 30: Economic downturn still hitting UK wood producers
• 28: Pulpmills in western Canada had the lowest wood costs in North America in fourth quarter 2008, reports WRI
• 27: UPM delivers lower than expected profits for 2008
• 27: Holtec upgrades website
• 24: PEFC calls on global forest leaders to engage in forest certification
• 23: FSC advocate awarded for promoting responsible forest management in Indonesia
• 19: Major review of DRC logging contracts
• 13: Third quarter falls in wood prices
• 12: New rainforest mapping technology
• 11: AfDB produces draft terms of reference for management of Congo Basin Forest Fund
• 05: Leading public procurement policy confirms PEFC’s sustainability status

December 2008  (3)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 23: The achievements of the Abundant Forests Alliance
• 21: Wood costs fell for many pulpmills worldwide in the 3Q 2008, reports WRQ
• 17: Tembec receives FSC certification for forests supplying its Chetwynd high-yield pulp mill

November 2008  (9)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 27: Small and Low Intensity Forest Management (SLIMF)
• 26: FSC developing into a foundation for all forest related ecosystem
• 26: Public procurement policies rely on FSC as evidence of compliance
• 25: FSC to explore engagement in forest based Carbon Offset
• 24: Experienced leader focuses on critical role of imagery in GIS
• 24: Log costs fell in Russia in the 3Q/08 as foresters cut back production
• 23: Research to reduce forest fire damage
• 20: Climate change: financing global forests The Eliasch Review
• 14: Russian log export tax deferred

October 2008  (14)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 30: Canadian pulpmills are paying higher wood costs as supply tightens, WRI reports
• 27: Satellite Imagery: Reducing costs and improving forest data and information quality
• 24: Chestnuts to be planted in major mined land agreement
• 24: Global green building is growing rapidly
• 23: FSC General Assembly 2008 in Cape Town
• 16: World’s tallest hardwood tree found in Australia
• 16: Deforestation costs much worse than credit crunch
• 15: Log export taxes will raise unemployment in Russia says WRI
• 14: Eliasch Review on international deforestation published
• 08: Attracting funds to sustain forests
• 07: Pulpmills in the US Northwest continue to have higher wood costs
• 07: Vale Florestar helps native forests in Pará, Brazil
• 06: Global wood prices surging due to increased competition and higher freight costs
• 06: New set of sustainable forestry principles

September 2008  (6)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 30: Tembec achieves new FSC standard in Canada
• 22: New advice on red band needle blight
• 22: End of tax deduction for first thinning livens up timber sales in Finland
• 22: ConFor fights EC plant protection directive
• 22: Chips part of the solution not the problem
• 02: Tembec curtails pulp production amidst global weakening of demand

August 2008  (16)
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• 27: Wood costs increased for pulpmills worldwide in the 2Q 2008 as reported by WRI
• 27: Sawlog prices rebound in Russia
• 27: MagForestry completes first delivery of wood chips from new Congo facility to Europe
• 22: Chinese forest output posts huge rise
• 20: Chance to offer feedback on Controlled Wood standard
• 15: Oldest and largest US tree certification program endorsed
• 14: Damaging contracts in Congo under threat
• 12: FSC certification granted for Canadian forest
• 11: Space technology offers cost effective services for FSC forest management
• 11: First countries selected for Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
• 09: Oldest and largest US tree certification program endorsed
• 07: Aussie trees crucial for carbon storage
• 06: Super sawmill supplier created through acquisition
• 05: In the race for clean, secure energy sources, will forest biomass be the new gold?
• 04: Congo Basin forests achieve certification
• 01: APF set for record attendance

July 2008  (8)
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• 30: Research provides update on UK red band needle blight
• 30: Danzer Group reacts to Greenpeace accusations
• 28: Forest investment proposals in the US
• 24: Protecting Ontario’s Boreal forests
• 22: Woodfuel workshop plans heat up
• 22: Governance Review identifies key issues and challenges for PEFC
• 07: Scottish woodland crofts garner support
• 03: Sawlog prices in Europe have grown faster than the world average the past two years

June 2008  (13)
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• 27: Momentum behind forest, paper and packaging deals set to continue driven by sustainability
• 26: New biomass boiler improves pulp mill efficiency, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on fossil fuel
• 26: UPM carbon calculator for customers
• 25: Finnish slowdown is here
• 18: Why are tropical forests better at converting nitrogen?
• 18: Deere sets emissions goal
• 18: Collective agreement signed over Finnish paper industry
• 16: Pöyry wins pulp contract in Russia
• 16: UPM sawn timber business weakens
• 13: Weyerhaeuser Australia under the hammer
• 13: Sustainable paper maker breaks ground on $30 million co-generation biomass facility
• 10: 8th International BBE-conference for Wood Energy approaches
• 10: Cash boost for biomass fueled heat and electricity

May 2008  (15)
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• 30: FSC certified company brings new life to old raft logs
• 29: Australian turmoil
• 29: World’s largest contiguous tropical forest certified in Congo Basin
• 29: Mississippi loggers ask the state for relief
• 22: The state of Australian forestry
• 20: Researches confirm world’s oldest tree, Sweden
• 20: Chilean forestry company ups investment
• 20: Catalyst Paper slashes BC workforce
• 20: Pöyry snares major engineering contract with Stora Enso
• 17: African energy and the wood question – avoiding deforestation and protecting health
• 13: Billion tree campaign to grow into the 7 billion tree campaign
• 12: Generation Investment Management takes equity stake in New Forests Pty
• 05: Alberta fights the pine beetle
• 02: Coal company wins forestry award
• 01: More woes for BC forest industry

April 2008  (19)
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• 29: MaskinLeverantörerna’s Forestry Section and Skogsnolia strengthen collaboration
• 28: Supporting a new approach to tropical forestry
• 28: Komatsu Forest invests heavily in 2008
• 25: Timber use growing in South Korea
• 25: North American forest industry set to survive housing downturn
• 24: Paso Pacifico awarded Gold Rating for innovative reforestation in Nicaragua
• 24: Tembec shuts down its Senneterre, Quebec sawmill for three months
• 23: RWE puts wood in its energy mix
• 23: Deere’s latest major commitment to Russia
• 21: Reducing deforestation could be ‘lucrative’ for forest nations
• 21: Ponsse’s new group and sales management
• 20: Worries over Bush Administration plans to open up forest areas
• 17: Sawmill chip shortages escalate in the US
• 17: P&G and Domtar step up sustainable foresty committments
• 12: Climate change and forest certification
• 08: Afforestation program flagged for Nigeria
• 06: Ruukki Group continues with Russian pursuit
• 01: Ponsse secures senior posts
• 01: Asian deforestation must cease: UN

March 2008  (15)
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• 28: Ponsse increased sales by 76%
• 27: UN agency appeals for data on world forests for most detailed study yet
• 14: NZ forestry strategic summit planned for 2008
• 13: Troubled Tembec shuts down major sawmill temporarily
• 13: PEFC endorses Polish forest certification scheme
• 12: New approach to structural mapping of forests
• 11: PEFC endorses WWF scorecard but points out shortcomings
• 10: Construction companies commit to FSC
• 08: PEFC position paper on ‘Conversions’
• 08: Biomass success - wood powered pickup truck
• 08: PNG first accredited FSC working group in Oceania
• 05: Stora Enso posts Q4 loss
• 05: Wood works on greenhouse gas emissions
• 04: Agriculture Minister accepts KWF patron post
• 04: Tasmanian pulp mill deals out record contract

February 2008  (17)
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• 29: Landmark transaction of first forest-based CO2
• 29: Forest industry leads the way towards Kyoto targets
• 26: Tiitinen steps down as Ponsse chief
• 26: Innovations awards at the KWF-Tagung 2008
• 23: Forest thinnings for fuel
• 23: Garnaut recognises value of forest industry
• 22: FSC reports good progress
• 19: New wood availability forecasts for the East Coast confirm increasing wood flows in New Zealand
• 18: Amazon forest sustainable leadership - an example to follow
• 18: Timber industry on a high
• 18: UPM to close Luumäki business
• 15: Unrealistic goal for more renewable energy undercuts sensible use of wood
• 15: Ponsse experienced massive growth last year
• 14: Prince Charles calls for rainforest action
• 13: New wood availability forecasts for New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay will inform regional planning
• 05: Biomass industry a focus for newly merged entity
• 05: SP 761 LF - brute force combined with intelligence

January 2008  (14)
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• 30: PEFC to implement ‘Governance Review’
• 30: Power struggle and illegal logging threaten Sierra Leone’s remaining forests
• 29: EU climate change package no good for Finnish forestry
• 29: Madill broadens distribution
• 28: Tigercat H250B hits roadside market
• 28: Japan’s biomass plan
• 23: Malinen, new Pöyry chief
• 23: CSIRO research demonstrates need for better management
• 18: Pöyry divests French subsidiary - January 18, 2008
• 18: China releases 2008 planting program - January 18, 2008
• 18: Tembec faces production downturn - January 18, 2008
• 09: Upcoming Events
• 08:  IFI to hit the ground running in 2008
• 08: Tertiary refiner ups production for Tembec

December 2007  (14)
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• 31: Illegal logger let off
• 14: World Bank money to keep pristine forests
• 14: Major corporation wins FSC certification
• 13: Forestry Tasmania profits to decline over the long term: Greens
• 13: Ghana forests decline
• 12: Peru urged to better use its resources
• 12: Gunns to complete Auspine takeover
• 12: Forests, Carbon and Climate Change
• 11: Better communication needed for EU forestry
• 11: Government inaction blamed for New Brunswick forestry woes
• 10: Indonesia to profit from emission reductions
• 10: Indonesia to profit from emission reductions
• 10: Forest industry needs multi-skilled professionals
• 06: NAFI behind PM’s move to sign Kyoto

November 2007  (23)
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• 30: Chip mill up and running in Uruguay
• 29: US forestry firm falters in BC
• 29: Major paper supplier reports loss
• 28: Swedes cast doubt over controversial Australian mill
• 28: Finnish Forest Industries Federation modernises online services
• 28: Finnish Forest Industries Federation modernises online services
• 27: Large order for Söderhamn Eriksson
• 27: IFI to hit the ground running in 2008
• 26: John Deere Retail Country Manager appointed for the United Kingdom and Ireland
• 26: 2010 Commonwealth Forestry Conference to be held in Scotland
• 23: Weyerhaeuser to buy Idabel sawmill
• 23: Strong period for Pöyry underlined by forest industry
• 22: Technology award for JD
• 21: Ponsse claims victory over TigerCat
• 20: Redwood broker needed in US
• 20: Top certification standard helps preserve forests
• 19: WSAB gets giant order from Russia
• 19: WSAB gets giant order from Russia
• 16: NGOs Present Anti-Deforestation Initiative to Brazil
• 16: WBCSD and WRI Release Wood and Byproduct Procurement Guide
• 16: Sustainable European Smallholder Forestry
• 16: Guidelines weaken forest protection in southern US
• 16: Ocean race to become carbon neutral

January 2007  (2)
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 22: Forests to join the carbon market
• 06: Sub-Prime fallout still pending for timber markets