Imprisonment is one of the penalties facing timber importers in the Australian government's new legislation prohibiting the importation and sale of illegally logged timber. The Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill (2011), now being debated in ...
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The Wood Awards 2012 will go ahead after the loss of £15, 000 of sponsorship from the Forestry Commission (FC), but need more backers to become a bigger event. That was the message from Tim Gregson, clerk of the Carpenters' Company, ...
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Several major Scandinavian groups have announced extensive cuts in their softwood lumber output in the last few weeks, owing to the deteriorating underlying conditions on the international softwood lumber markets. The measures, most of ...
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Russian forest products group RusForest AB has recorded a third-quarter net loss of SKr77.5m (2010: SKr-65m). The company, which has blazed an acquisition trail in recent years, blamed the losse on on low capacity utilisation and start-up ...
Howarth Timber is developing a new window range that will allow for a double or triple glazed window in the same frame. Mick Toner, Howarth Timber factory manager, said Howarth was predicting the industry would move towards triple glazing ...
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West Coast log and lumber exports in the first nine months of the year already have surpassed exports for all of 2010, largely because of Chinese demand, the U. S. Forest Service reported Monday. Along the entire West Coast, log exports ...
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On November 4 to 6, a number of enterprises leaders of ceramic industry association in Henan Province and Hubei Province gathered and communicated in some Henan production bases and decided to combine and build ceramic brands in central ...
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The Spanish wood-based panels producer Financiera Maderera (Finsa) is posed to permanently close a particleboard mill run by its Basque subsidiary Inama at the end of 2011. Several Spanish daily newspapers reported that the company had ...
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In the ceramic industry, private fire polishing factory has not news, although the blame takes a "man bites dog" summoned up the courage, but because a long time, we all take for granted, it flattering. As early as two or three years, ...
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MONTREAL - Forest products company Tembec is exiting the hardwood flooring business as it shutters a 108-year operation in Huntsville, Ont., and sells another facility in Toronto to a private company for $13 million. The Montreal-based ...
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Germany, Austria and Estonia are among countries being accused of dumping structural timber products in Australia at below market prices, according to industry newsletter Random Lengths. Australian customs authorities are investigating ...
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Finnish timber exporters managed to raise their softwood lumber and planed product exports in August 2011 by 9% against the same month last year to a total of approximately 355, 000 m³ (August 2010: 326, 000 m³). Here, growth was ...
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Wolseley has finally exited its US building supplies business with the sale of its remaining stake in Stock Building Supply for £15m. For Wolseley it represents the final chapter in its building materials business in the US as it ...
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Lumber prices have taken an unseasonal price spike as U.S.Wholesalers and retailers start buying well ahead of the expected construction season next year. Spurred by low inventories, strong apartment construction and a surprise jump in ...
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If you're unfamiliar with the title of this article, or this important subject matter, don't feel bad – you're not alone. Confusion and a lack of awareness is the rule, rather than the exception, when it comes to the federal ...
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