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  • Houtzagerij
  • juni 29, 2012 11:51

UPM sells its Kajaani sawmill to Pölkky Oy

UPM has concluded co-determination negotiations and decided to restructure its sawn timber and further processing operations in Finland and renews its business strategy. UPM has made a contract to sell its Kajaani sawmill to Pölkky Oy. Pölkky will continue sawn timber ...... [meer...]

  • Bosbouw
  • juni 28, 2012 14:21

New Online Tool Supports Fight Against Illegal Logging

The World Resources Institute (WRI) today announced the launch of the Forest Legality Risk Information Tool, an open-access global information website designed to assist purchasers of forest products in securing fiber from legal sources. The risk tool, a project of the Forest Legality Alliance, was partly...... [meer...]

  • Houtenergie
  • juni 28, 2012 10:07

Metsä will not invest in planned biodiesel plant

Metsä Group and Vapo Group have conducted a feasibility study on the construction of a biodiesel plant in Finland or its neighbouring regions since spring 2009. Originally, the study covered four locations, two of them in Finland. The final stage...... [meer...]

  • Speciale rapporten
  • juni 27, 2012 18:00

Exports to China: bright outlook for value-added wood products

The steep decline in Chinese wood exports observed in December 2011 (down 8.3% from November) and January 2012 (down 31.6% from December) caused much consternation within the global timber trade, signaling a short-term adjustment in Chinese timber demand. Despite this end of year adjustment, the value of Chinese wood imports...... [meer...]

Nieuwsberichten machines
  • Nieuwsberichten machines
  • juni 27, 2012 12:02

French Innovation: EGA Systems presents "Orion"

On July 12, 2012 EGA Systems invites everybody interested to its official presentation of the new 6-sided machining center "ORION" for machining large wall cross-laminated panels and to the presentation of the new composite cross-laminated panel "PANOBLOC".... [meer...]

  • Interieur
  • juni 26, 2012 11:04

IKEA to invest 1.5 billion EUR in India

IKEA, the Sweden-based world's largest furniture maker, has reportedly pledged to invest 1.5 billion euros in two phases in India's retail sector, in what is said to be one of the biggest foreign direct investments in this country.... [meer...]

  • Marktprijzen
  • juni 25, 2012 23:38

China: Prices of main wood commodities in May 2012

This report contains prices of logs, wooden beams, veneer, plywood, solid wood flooring and other items from timber markets in several Chinese regions: Jiashan Kaihua, Shanghai Furen, Beijing Dongba...... [meer...]

  • Marktprijzen
  • juni 25, 2012 22:50

U.S. softwood and panel markets - week 25, 2012

With some exceptions, prices of framing lumber declined amid a slow to spotty sales pace...... [meer...]

  • Houtenergie
  • juni 25, 2012 16:08

Tembec inaugurates new bark boiler

Tembec officially inaugurated a new bark boiler today at its Béarn sawmill in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec. This new boiler represents a $6 million investment announced by the Company last July and will reduce energy costs by replacing two existing oil-fired 6000-kW boilers with a single bark-fired boiler.... [meer...]

Houtzagerij
  • Houtzagerij
  • juni 25, 2012 11:30

Callander relies on German technique for log handling

For more than 50 years the family enterprise JAMES CALLANDER & Sons has run a sawmill in the South Scottish Falkirk. The enterprise grew continuously for years and had already come to its limits. A new site was planned to expand the business. The first step was the installation of a sorting line to process spruce logs with diameters of >700 mm...... [meer...]

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