Afton Medical, a manufacturer of surgical instruments, has launched a new line of Titanium hormone pellet insertion trocars, designed for use with hormone replacement therapy. The Titanium trocars, which are available in two sizes to ...
German Pellets has invested a total of ?m in building a stationary log preparation plant at its headquarters. The company will be using the plant, which is being put into service over the next few days, to put its supply of raw material for ...
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Everyone around the world is searching for different sources of renewable energy and Jatropha is known as a plant that is considered to be a great source of bio-fuel. This is known to be the most environmentally friendly and sustainable ...
Softwood sawlog prices continued their slide throughout the world in the 2Q/12, and the Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) was down for the fourth consecutive quarter to $82.90/m3. The Index was down 3.4 % from the 1Q/12, and 11.5 % from ...
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The US-American company GreenWorld is doubling production capacity at its pellet plant in Laurinburg from its current level of 120, 000 t to 240, 000 t/year. The investment volume for the expansion in capacity is quoted by the company as ...
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Diversified Finnish forest products group Vapo reported a 6.5% drop in interim turnover, due to a decline in activity across its various business areas, but increased profits by around 2%. Group sales for the six months to July were ...
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The combined German pellet output reached a new record level in the first half of this year and was roughly 17% higher than in the reference period for last year at 1.04m t. The decisive factor for this was the above-average increase of 22% ...
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Seattle -- Prices for woody biomass in the US, whether sawmill by-products, forestresidues or urban wood waste, have been sliding for most of the past three years, but werestill higher late in 2011 in most regions than they were five years ...
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The Swiss pellet manufacturer Pellet du Jura commissioned new pellet manufacturing machinery in early April 2012. The project involved a fundamental overhaul of a pellet plant that the subsidiary of the Swiss hardwood sawmill Corbat Holding ...
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Major Taiwanese injection and blow molding and extrusion machinery OEM s plan to broaden the appeal of their brands by providing higher-end technology solutions at prices competitive with European or Japanese machines. That message emerged ...
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The surge in energy costs, the new direction toward renewable energy sources, and European initiatives to limit carbon emissions all have created a tremendous opportunity for North American wood pellets. In the wood products industry, ...
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With retrospective effect from 1 January German Pellets has taken over the Austrian Glechner group of companies. The takeover includes three Glechner production sites - in Pfarrkirchen (Germany) and the Austrian pellet plants in Mattighofen ...
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Songwon Industrial Group finished 2011 on a high note having announced a number of key events that demonstrate how growth is at the heart of its success now and in the future. Capacity at its state- of-the-art Maeam plant was increased ...
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Foreseeing WPC (wood plastic composite) to become one of the world’s trend-setting green building materials, Chen Yu Plastic Machine Co., Ltd., a supplier of plastic product making machines, is poised for mass production of WPC plate ...
Worldwide pellet production has increased sharply in the last few years and amounted to 14.4m t in 2010, roughly 13.5m t of which has been consumed. This was revealed by a study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) entitled ...
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