JAVA --High fuel costs are squeezing local loggers and a Java sawmill already hurt by a slump in new home construction. Lumber demand, which is the highest it’s been in the past five years, is not the problem for the Gregory Lumber ...
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The roundwood-export ban initially planned by Gabon for implementation on 1 January 2010 and finally introduced from the middle of May 2010 resulted in significant changes in Gabonese timber trading. As emerges from the export statistics ...
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New research from the University of Adelaide could help protect one of the world's most globally threatened tree species -- the big leaf mahogany -- from extinction. Big leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) is the most prized mahogany ...
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VANCOUVER, BC - Canfor said it has completed the acquisition of the Tembec Industries Ltd. 's southern British Columbia interior wood products assets. The $60 million deal, first announced Nov. 28, 2011, includes Tembec's Elko and Canal ...
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The slightly growing demand for beech lumber since the beginning of the year has spread to other assortments and sales markets in the course of the last few weeks. An increasing number of sawmills has been using this as an argument for ...
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At its annual general meeting on 9 March 2012 in Madrid, AIEM, the Spanish timber importers and timber industry, association voted unanimously in favour of the revised code of conduct for the import of wood products. AEIM has thereby ...
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UAE-based Union Cement has narrowed its 2011 net losses by 40.2% to Dhs13.4m, compared with Dhs22.4m a year earlier, due to lower costs of production. Gross profit rose 30% to Dhs36.7m, compared with Dhs28.2m, despite a 12.2% rise in ...
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Large-scale refurbishment projects, infrastructure works and investments made in wind farms were the main factors behind the 5 percent increase in volume of the Romanian cement market in 2011, said Florian Aldea, country manager of ...
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With a plus of 4% to roughly 115.7m m³, North American lumber production increased in 2011 for the second year in succession, although the upward trend weakened in comparison to that seen in 2010, which had shown a year-on-year rise of ...
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The business trend among Scandinavian forestry and timber groups has weakened further overall in the fourth quarter of 2011. Most companies also showed declines in turnover and results from October to December, after the previous two ...
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The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has achieved a “world first” for securing FSC and PEFC project certification on the Olympic Park site, with 100% of wood products supplied certified as “legal and sustainable”. ...
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At present, due to the decrease of natural sand, artificial sand will be used as the source construction sand so that it will rank in the building materials market. In our country, other than a few areas department understand the artificial ...
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FLSmidth has been awarded a contract worth USD 83m (approximately DKK 470m) from the company Margem Companhia de Mineração (a subsidiary of Supremo Cimentos) for delivery of equipment and services for their new cement ...
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Northern Minnesota’s logging industry is suffering along with the rest of the national wood products industry, but leaders of trade groups say loggers who’ve held on so far are likely to survive. Since the downward trend started ...
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Those looking for affordable, ready-to-assemble furniture products of world renowned IKEA shall no longer be bound for Kuala Lumpur or Singapore, as the company will set foot in Indonesia from 2014. Indonesian publicly-listed retail giant ...
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