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September 2010 (2)
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- 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: IFI June - July 2010 now online Check out August / September 2010
- 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)
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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)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 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)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 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