Timber product companies have reported good initial feedback from Ecobuild – the world’s largest eco building show at London ExCeL which finishes today. Organisers UBM were expecting more than 60, 000 visitors at this ...
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Funds managed by New Forests have taken a controlling interest in the 46, 000 hectare Auspine estate. New Forests' Australia New Zealand Forest Fund is the lead investor in the transaction, which includes the land and trees of the ...
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Which entertainment furniture styles and finishes are consumers asking about the most and what types of wood are the most popular? A look into the wish list and email inquiry database through FurnitureDealer.net's website network provides ...
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Southern and western softwood lumber producers believe the pace of business activity slowed again on domestic and foreign softwood lumber markets in February. In addition to halted building activity due to weather conditions, demand is ...
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West Fraser’s fourth quarter saw $6.1 million in earnings, or $0.14 per share of sales. The figures are based off $650 million in 2011 and are after discontinued operations of $7.3 million or $1.47 per share on sales of $2, 762 ...
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U. S. Timber and lumber sales have taken a major hit as a result of the housing bubble collapse and the economic recession that began in 2008, says James Henderson, and while there has been a glimmer of improvement in the market — ...
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Is "bathroom makeover" one of your 2012 resolutions? Ours too! That's why we asked some of Canada's leading design experts for their take on the coming year's most compelling bath trends. Whether you’re planning a full bathroom ...
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ELEANOR HALL: Let's hear now from the South Australian academic who is proposing a radical rethink of building construction in Australia in order to reduce the country's carbon footprint. Professor Steffen Lehmann proposes that instead of ...
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The United States and Canada have announced a two-year extension of the Softwood Lumber Agreement, which those in New Hampshire’s lumber industry say is good news. “Most everybody that I know that’s producing softwood ...
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OTTAWA - Canada and the United States have bought two extra years of relative peace on the lumber front. The two governments agreed Monday to extend the 2006 softwood lumber agreement by two years to October 2015 with no modifications to ...
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Holz Schiller has since August 2011 invested a total of roughly .5m in the modernisation and expansion of production at its window-scantlings plant specialising in the manufacture of pine scantlings at its site in Cheb in the Czech ...
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Finnish Forest Industries Federation member companies purchased 25.3 million cubic metres of wood from Finnish private-owned forests in 2011. This is almost a quarter less than in 2010, when summer storms boosted timbers sales. Timber ...
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The Finnish forest industry purchased 25% less wood from Finland’s forests in 2011. The Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) member companies purchased 25.3 million m³ of wood from Finnish private-owned forests in 2011. ...
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Forest fires in Chile have destroyed Arauco’s plywood mill in Nueva Aldea. Hundreds of firefighters were involved in the operation to battle the blaze at Arauco’s site. The log yard and radiata pine plantations were also damaged ...
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In the original tale of The Three Little Pigs, only the bricklaying piglet survives the wolf’s attack. If only the first two porkers had known about nanocrystalline cellulose, they’d have survived too. This near-impenetrable ...
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