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June 2013  (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 14: Tasmania - Long Reach woodchip mill reopens
  • 14: WoodEXPO 2013 “ups the ante”
  • 14: World’s largest Redd project approved
  • 14: Australia - Hardwood plantations exceeds native forest harvests
  • 10: Elmia wood - Vermeer -Homogenous chips with less energy consumption
  • 10: Elmia Wood 2013: An important vitamin injection for the entire forest industry
  • 08: Komatsu’s new forwarder – designed to please everyone NEW AT ELMIA
  • 03: John Deere first with crane tip control on forest machines

May 2013  (21)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 31: Komatsu Forest, together with the Brazilian forestry company Fibria, is investing in training for nearly 80 people in southern Bahia
  • 31: Komatsu Forest continues to invest in training in Russia
  • 31: ROTTNE INDUSTRI AB participates in the world’s largest forestry fair, ELMIA WOOD, 5 to 8 June 2013.
  • 29: Tigercat - New EHS skidder drive
  • 29:  Forestry Machines Ltd. expands presence in Russia
  • 28: New Metriguard 2350 Sonic Lumber Grader
  • 28: MASAI MARA - MARA ANNUAL MIGRATION AVAILABILTY SEPTEMBER 2013 - THROUGH JPS LUXURY SAFARIS
  • 24: Space Mission to measure biomass given go ahead
  • 24: NZ log export update
  • 23: Elmia Wood - 500 exhibitors, 50,000 visitors!
  • 21: Oleson Saw Technology offers the Iseli RZ-1
  • 17: Deere announces record second-quarter earnings of $1.084 Billion
  • 17: AU$76M Dongwha Timbers new mill opened
  • 17: Namibia Grand Tour - The Ultimate Namibia Safari
  • 15: Potlatch President, Chief Operating Officer Eric Cremers, to present at REITWeek conference in Chicago
  • 14: CMPC announces pricing for its capital raise
  • 13: WoodEXPO 2013 - the listing of global technology providers to Australasia’s sawmilling, wood manufacturing and wood panels industries
  • 08: John Deere adds productivity boosting features to 900K/H Series Tracked Feller Bunchers and Harvesters
  • 08: NZ First criticises China forestry purchase
  • 08: TPT Export Market Report
  • 03:  Fecon Inc. introduces the new FMA8039 hydraulic powered milling attachment

April 2013  (21)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 29: Elmia wood - Fairground map now available
  • 25: Komatsu Forest’s new 895 forwarder takes the definition of a 20-ton forwarder to a whole new level
  • 25: Komatsu - New intelligent cab suspension
  • 25: Komatsu Forest launches new LED headlights
  • 25: SP Maskiner signs major order to Brazil
  • 25: John Deere expands final Tier 4/Stage IV offering with No-DPF 4.5L Engine
  • 12: Changes at Pöyry
  • 12: Eucalypt forestry initiative supported in NZ
  • 12: C$30.4 million in funding for forest industry
  • 12: Gunns’ plantations to be put on market
  • 12: Bandit to race with Kligerman, Camp Horsin’ Around in NNS at Texas
  • 11: Travel with HSM to ELMIA Wood 2013 Jönköping Sweden
  • 10: Biomass wood shortage predicted
  • 10: New dryland forestry uinitiative launched
  • 10: NZ Log Prices
  • 09: MiCROTEC: Russian Website is online
  • 05: VAB Solutions Inc. signs an important contract in the Quebec Province
  • 05: OSB prices skyrocket in the US
  • 04: Sawlog prices in Europe
  • 04: NZ Log Export growth news spreads
  • 02: Nokian Nordman Forest F heavy tyres – Reliable and cost-effective solution for forestry machines

March 2013  (12)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 30:  Morbark, Inc. produces first Boxer® compact loader
  • 28: New Tigercat loader grapple
  • 28: The first Gremo machines in full operation in Panama
  • 27: ANDRITZ to support Mondi’s program for energy optimisation and environmental protection with supply of state of the art plants and technologies
  • 27: PricewaterhouseCooper’s annual poll reports strategic alliances 2012
  • 26: WoodEXPO 2013 - Global wood technology experts NZ and Australia in September
  • 26: US lumber markets up sharply
  • 15: US housing market improves
  • 15: New Online Services from LIGNA
  • 07: Tigercat - Onetrak takes over Australia
  • 06: Dasa Control Systems - Market leading solutions for optimised forest production
  • 03: Fecon®, Inc. offers thumb receiver for excavator Bull Hog forestry mulchers

February 2013  (18)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 26: Fecon®, Inc. introduces new innovative mulching tool
  • 26: 1038
  • 22: Bandit Industries -Patent-Pending update for Bandit Hydrostatic stump grinders now in service
  • 22: Western Forest Products appoints Don Demens as President and Chief Executive Officer
  • 22: Innovation, productivity and power converge in John Deere’s New E-Series wheeled harvesters
  • 22: JPS Luxury Safaris is now sending clients on high value, low impact safaris to the Republic of Congo’s Odzala Kokoua National Park reducing illegal logging
  • 22: Norwood Portable Sawmills - looking for qualified dealers for some countries
  • 15: John Deere USA & Canada - 0% Finance deal
  • 15: Comact making big inroads into Australian sawmilling
  • 14: Western Star - New Sydney truck centre open for business
  • 14: Western Star Trucks celebrates 30 years in Australia
  • 12: Bandit Industries celebrating 50,000th Brush Bandit machine with special contest
  • 06: John Deere announces 2013 Gator™ heavy-duty XUV Models
  • 04: Klausner Lumber One to open $130M sawmill with 350 jobs in Florida
  • 04: Tigercat articulating carrier
  • 04: Plum Creek reports improved results for fourth quarter and full year 2012
  • 04: Plum Creek and The Rockefeller Group to pursue development of 4,722 acres in the Southeastern U.S.
  • 01: WoodEXPO 2013 to improve local processing efficiencies

January 2013  (24)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 29: Brazil – the world’s largest industrial eucalypt estate
  • 29: Global lumber forecast to rise
  • 29: Wood Pellets export leapt up in 2012
  • 29: Bellona and Norske Skog are working for a better environment
  • 29: PrimeTech has introduced the PT-300 D:Mine for mine clearance
  • 26: IFI Magazine Dec Jan 2013
  • 26: International Forest Industries Magazine December January 2013
  • 25: Brazil – the world’s largest industrial eucalypt estate
  • 25: Rayonier selling wood products division
  • 25: Global lumber consumption forecast to rise
  • 25: SPRINGER plant fitness test
  • 24: Ponsse signs sponsorship agreements for 2013
  • 21: Deere notified of conclusion to foreign business practices investigation
  • 21: Customer-Inspired John Deere 605K crawler loader is the right-size
  • 21: WoodEXPO 2013 Australia and New Zeland
  • 21: New Zealand Log Prices - December 2012
  • 10: John Deere enhances focus on forestry business
  • 08: DIEFFENBACHER GMBH Maschinen- und Anlagenbau and Carmanah Design and Manufacturing Inc.sign cooperation agreement
  • 03: John Deere’s new wheel weight package improves skidder productivity
  • 02:  Lowest softwood wood fibre prices seen since 2010
  • 02: Aus in bed with Swede - Bigger, better and more efficient forestry trucking
  • 02: North American lumber prices forecast to soar in 2013
  • 02: Australia - New Forests to purchase Gunns mills
  • 02: Canadian pension fund buys into Kaingaroa

December 2012  (9)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 29: Tracbel appointed exclusive dealer for Precision Husky in Brazil
  • 21: Bandit Model 200UC 12” disc chipper offers low cost, high production
  • 21: JPS Luxury Safaris is now sending clients on high value, low impact safaris to the Republic of Congo’s Odzala Kokoua National Park reducing illegal logging
  • 20: JPS Luxury Safaris - low impact safaris assist protection of Tropical Rainforest in Republic of Congo and elsewhere
  • 20: USNR - New order from Eacom timber
  • 10: US housing boosts lumber not logs
  • 10: TPT Forests export market report
  • 03: Tigercat has recently enhanced it’s 5702 felling saw
  • 01:  Bandit Industries & New River Equipment introduce The Bandit Revolution® Stump Grinder Cutter Wheel ror most stump grinder makes/models

November 2012  (23)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 30: US lumber demand strengthens
  • 28: Confidence up for British Columbia’s loggers
  • 28: NZ log exports up in latest trade summary
  • 28: NZ - FIEA Conference / FICA Summit / FICA big day out
  • 28: Continuing tragedies increase urgency for inquiry into NZ health and safety in forestry industry
  • 28: GMO to acquire Fulton Hogan forests
  • 28: China log imports - WOOD MARKETS has just released the third edition of The China Book
  • 23: Bandit Model 200UC 12” disc chipper offers low cost, high production
  • 22:  Gilbert Products Inc are expanding our network of agents and distributors - Are you interested in joining our team?
  • 19: New Zealand log prices update
  • 19: Australia aims to stimulate housing market
  • 19: Building activity update
  • 16: The Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA) - Show hours expanded for Expo 2013
  • 16: Third quarter results announced by EACOM Timber Corporation
  • 16: Anders Ante Andersson - New Vice President in SCA
  • 16: Finnish forest industry showed no improvement
  • 13: 2012 John Deere classic raises a record $6.79 Million for 493 local and regional charities
  • 13: Tigercat 604C and 610C get Turnaround
  • 02: US now largest wood pellet exporter in the world
  • 02: Komatsu to acquire Log Max
  • 02: Sawlog prices in Russia climbing 25% in 3 years
  • 02: New Zealand log export update
  • 02: Difficulties ahead for Russian logging industry

October 2012  (12)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 31: USA Forest & wood news snippets
  • 31: China afforestation subsidies continue
  • 31: Attack of the drones to fight tree rot in Scotland
  • 24: Russian log prices defy policy
  • 23: Bandit model 2550XP beltless hydrostatic stump grinder now available
  • 19: US lumber imports on the rise
  • 19: International interest for WoodEXPO 2013
  • 19: Managing harvesting operations in real time? -Irish forestry technology start-up Treemetrics.
  • 11: Baxley Equipment Company Arkansas Employment Opportunities
  • 10: Tigercat in full force at Demo International 2012 northwest of Quebec - The new 615C skidder is debuted
  • 09: International forest Industries Magazine profile forest industry ‘High Flyers’
  • 03: Ponsse recognised as main supplier of 2012

September 2012  (14)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 27:  ForestTECH 2012 - Innovations to improve wood supply chains
  • 27:  Leaders losing forest machine market share in Sweden
  • 27: Research progress on export log treatment - NZ
  • 25: John Deere celebrates evolution of forestry on 175th anniversary
  • 25: ForestTECH 2012 Australia and NZ - Improving efficiencies through the wood supply chain
  • 18: LIMAB AB has now moved into brand new facilities in Göteborg.
  • 13: NZ log prices
  • 13: NZ Government’s free market approach naïve
  • 12: Gundlach Equipment Corporation, Jeffrey Rader Corporation and Pennsylvania Crusher Corporation unify as TerraSource Global
  • 10: Morbark dealer Nortrax and ReEnergy launch biomass program
  • 10: Bandit at Demo International 2012
  • 10: Deere & Company announces quarterly dividend
  • 06: Komatsu America Corp. launches new D61-23 crawler dozers
  • 05: ROTTNE INDUSTRI AB is seeking a distributor for the French market

August 2012  (35)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 29: John Deere - late summer deals - Knock It Down. Drag It Out.
  • 29: Global sawlog price index down
  • 28: FOREST INDUSTRY AGREES ON NEED TO DEEPEN ECONOMIC TIES WITH CHINA
  • 24: The future of supply chains – changes in shipping
  • 24: Shipping rates fall for Kiwi exporters
  • 24: Machine productivity of roadside chipping
  • 24: South Australia - SA forests sold to The Campbell Group
  • 22: New JDLink™ iPhone®/iPad® and Android® Apps monitor John Deere machines on the go
  • 22: UK team investigates potential of bamboo for home construction
  • 21: Select Saw special offer -complete saw package - model 4221 band sawmill (75 hp electric motor)
  • 20: AHWI-PRINOTH has announced a new member of its pride: the Raptor 800.
  • 17: Platform for the timber industry in Central and Southeast Europe 30 August to 2 September 2012
  • 17: South Australia’s largest wind farm planned
  • 17: China imports 15% less sawlogs
  • 17: Temporary threat for Australian sawn timber producers
  • 16: Deere Reports Record Third-Quarter Earnings
  • 16: Participation in woodchip processing and exporting business in Chile
  • 16: U.S. lumber production rises in May; western production jumps significantly
  • 16: Diesel prices jump over a dime in latest week
  • 15: Tough times continue for sawn timber in Australia
  • 15: DOLL innovations in timber transport
  • 10: Woody biomass in the USA sees drop in demand
  • 10: Stora Enso expands graphic liner range
  • 10: US, Australian, New Zealand building activity update
  • 07: North American Wood Fiber Review reports a drop in demand for woody biomass in the US
  • 07: Fibria divests eucalyptus forest assets in Brazil
  • 07: Tembec starts up new bark boiler at its Béarn sawmill in Quebec
  • 07: White Birch Paper Company to reopen the Stadacona paper mill in Quebec City
  • 07: Australian lumber market quiet for NZ lumber
  • 07: Promising results from forwarding optimisation study
  • 07: Thermally modified timber sales on the rise
  • 07: New investors for Green Triangle’s 46,000-ha estate
  • 07: High productivity motor vehicles – 2 years on
  • 02: RusForest Appoints Garrett Soden as CEO
  • 01: Sino-Forest says several companies that owe it millions no longer exist

July 2012  (26)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 31: Russia’s WTO membership opens fresh opportunities for the forest industry of Finland
  • 30: Cyclone best practice guide to help timber plantations
  • 30: Controversial Forestry SA asset bids due
  • 30: Top marks for Komatsu
  • 27: Scottish forestry potential looking good
  • 27: Bandit Industries now offering knife sharpening services for any hand-fed, whole-tree chipper
  • 25: NEW PORTLAND EVENT GAINS MOMENTUM - Timber Processing & Energy Expo October 17-19
  • 25:  Bandit Industries announces new dealers in Oklahoma, and Southern California
  • 25: Waratah gives Russia’s forest harvesting production a boost
  • 24: Bandit Bits customer magazine now available online with interactive content
  • 20: SPRINGER Maschinenfabrik AG - SAWMILLING WORLD NEWS
  • 19: Ferronordic Machines - Andrey Kharchenko joins as regional director for Central Federal Region
  • 17: John Deere launches a whole new species of Gator™!
  • 13: PLUM CREEK SCHEDULES EARNINGS RELEASE AND CONFERENCE CALL FOR JULY 30
  • 13: Weaker pulp markets see chip and pulp log prices fall
  • 13: Australian union highlights need for anti-dumping agency
  • 13: China engineers digital vs. print showdown
  • 12: Western Forest Products continues investment strategy
  • 09: Tigercat celebrated its 20th year in business over the days of June 21-22
  • 09: Bandit Chippers sponsor Bliss for three additional NASCAR Races, starting at Daytona
  • 09: BRUKS Klöckner has delivered a complete wood waste disposal solution to the new CLT plant of Stora Enso Building and Living in Ybbs/ Austria.
  • 09: USNR - Secure new order from Kalesnikoff Lumber - Thrums, BC
  • 09: Södra to implement unique infrastructure initiative with RME
  • 04: FAE Group in France - FAE mulching heads and special PrimeTech tracked movers
  • 03: BANDIT RACING AHEAD
  • 02:  Enhanced biomass utilisation through “Forest Power”

June 2012  (11)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 28: Deere posts record second-quarter earnings of $1.056 Billion
  • 28: PONSSE - More power with lower emissions - SCR SYSTEM
  • 28: ELMIA 2013 -Experienced trade fair team has future in its sights
  • 28: Lucidyne Technologies - Ingram Makes Strategic Move
  • 27: Deere to expand manufacturing capacity for hydraulic cylinders
  • 27: KWF SETS NEW RECORDS
  • 01: BRUKS Klöckner GmbH - Polaniec – The world’s largest power plant fired only with biomass
  • 01: Sumitomo buying Juken Northland forests
  • 01: NZ log export markets update
  • 01: World’s tallest timber high rise building in Melbourne
  • 01: Logs from Australia plantations set to grow

May 2012  (10)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 23: Bandit president Jerry Morey honoured with 2012 TCIA Award of Merit
  • 21: BRUKS Klöckner - Polaniec – The world’s largest power plant fired with biomass only
  • 21: Construction underway at NOVI Energy - South Boston, Virginia
  • 21: Deere posts record second-quarter earnings of $1.056 Billion
  • 15:  ROTTNE INDUSTRY AB and Russia - Biggest ever order
  • 09: USNR - New order from Eacom Timber Corporation
  • 09: AV NACKAWIC chooses the FUJI KING DEBARKER
  • 08: Waratah - Re-establishing a permanent home for the “Forest People” - Alaska
  • 04: EWD QuadroLine – extremely powerful – maximum flexibility
  • 04: EWD success at EXPOBOIS Awards

April 2012  (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 21: Tigercat moves assembly of Europe-bound machines
  • 21: Tigercat’s successful AUSTimber 2012
  • 16: Report reveals how much timber there is in Britain’s forests
  • 12: New John Deere 180G LC Hydraulic Excavator provides big productivity in a mid-sized package
  • 11: LOGSET APPOINT ESA RANTALA AS MANAGING DIRECTOR
  • 11: John Deere adds 9.0-Litre engine to 700-Series Tracked Feller Bunchers and 700-Series Tracked Harvesters
  • 11: New John Deere K-Series backhoe/tractor loaders provide contractors versatility and power needed on the jobsite
  • 11: John Deere launches efficient K-Series crawler dozers models with hydrostatic transmissions

March 2012  (3)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 23: New AEM log harvester/processor safety manual now available
  • 15: Deere Board raises dividend for 10th increase since 2004
  • 15: John Deere announces alliance with Topcon

February 2012  (9)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 13: Logset goes to Australia and Austimber2012
  • 10: Austimber2012 March 29 - 31 the largest forestry and timber expo in the Southern Hemisphere
  • 10: Oregon Logging Conference - Logging, Construction, Trucking and Heavy Equipment Expo
  • 10: Miscanthus for NZ energy production
  • 10: wi to the rescue at Gunns
  • 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 April - May 2013 now on-line. Book into June July LIGNA / ELMIA WOOD / SFPA Review Edition
  • 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)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 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)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 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)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 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)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 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)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 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)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 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)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 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)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 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

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