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September 2010  (2)
Detailed Monthly Archive

  • 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)
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)
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

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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