FedEx has joined Southwest Airlines to buy out Red Rock’s entire eight-year jet fuel inventory — key milestone for project construction. Red Rock takes waste biomass from forests and sawmills, and using a proprietary process, ...
BIFA, the British international Freight Association, says that media reports suggest there could be a significant increase in the price of wooden pallets over the coming months due to timber shortages. A recent meeting of the Timber ...
Tags: Wooden Pallet, Construction, timber
British transport companies Eddie Stobart and A.W.Jenkinson Forest Products have ordered 1,500 Scania Euro 6 trucks in the largest single order for vehicles to date in the UK. The order,which will be filled over two years,follows a ...
Tags: transport, Transportation, truck
Timber worth almost $40m has been seized in Latin America in "Operation Lead" headed by Interpol and in national investigations based on it. According to an Interpol press report, a large proportion of this wood, 292,000 m3, was confiscated ...
Tags: Wood, Construction, Timber
As a result of the restructuring announced on 6 August, the Finnish UPM-Kymmene aims to increase productivity and thereby achieve growth in concern profits of €400m. In the new structure, which is to become effective from 1 November, ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In the view of the German sawmill industry, a reduced level of felling puts the competitive capability of the whole wood cluster in Germany at risk. According to the felling figures for Germany for 2012, which were published in June by the ...
Tags: Sawmill Industry, Timber Felling
Difficulty in obtaining supplies of roundwood from February up to and including April have resulted in production at Russian sawmills showing slight decline of 1.8% to roughly 6.6m m3 in the first four months of 2013. In April , production ...
Tags: Lumber, Construction
Armstrong today announced that it will initiate a 5-7% increase in the United States and Canada on all solid hardwood and on select engineered hardwood products effective with shipments on July 15, 2013. “The cost of lumber ...
Tags: Armstrong, Engineered Hardwood Flooring, Construction&Decoration
Even before the merging of the two business divisions ?Building and Living" and ?Printing and Reading", which was announced on 23 Apriland which is to take effect on 1 July, the Finnish timber and paper concern Stora Enso had since 2006 ...
Tags: Stora Enso, Construction
In the last few weeks, beech sawmills in Germany have been registering a slight upswing in demand in some places. Receipts of orders have also increased a little again in recent weeks. The slight boost applies in particular to exports of ...
Tags: Beech Lumber, Construction
At the latest internet auctions held by the Polish state forest agency Lasy Panstwowe, Polish softwood sawmills have largely been able to cover their probable roundwood requirements for 2013. Should smaller shortfalls in requirements arise ...
Tags: internet auctions, Construction
The spring forecast by the Pellervo Economic Research Institute (PTT) in Finland predicts rising softwood lumber exports and higher selling prices for 2013. Overall, the Finnish sawmilling industry’s profitability is expected to be ...
Tags: Lumber Prices, Lumber Exports
The supply of softwood sawlogs in Northwest Russia is gradually decreasing as usual for the time of year. The stocks of logs at Archangelsk sawmills are usually largely exhausted by the beginning of May. A growing supply is not be expected ...
Tags: Gradual Reduction, Logs Supply
In the last few weeks, Chinese processing and commercial companies’ demand for beech lumber has failed to some extent to fulfil the expectations of German sawmills and exporters geared to Asia export. After Chinese companies’ ...
Tags: Sluggish Demand, Beech Lumber, Lumber
Several sawmills in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) are checking to see of log deliveries to Klausner group can be prevented with the aid of competition law. For this reason roughly ten businesses with a combined cutting capacity of almost 1m ...
Tags: sawmills, log deliveries, log