EcoPlanet Bamboo Group has hired three seasoned executives from $8.5 billion timber giant Weyerhaeuser in a key step to ensure its continued success and global expansion, and has named Marvin Ray Risco as the Group president. “Ray ...
Walki, a manufacturer of technical laminates and protective packaging materials, has unveiled its new green field plant at Wroclaw in Poland. The new plant, which has a production capacity of about 50,000t per year, will initially meet ...
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Technical laminates and protective packaging materials producer Walki Group has been provided with a new 10,500m2 light production facility in Wroclaw, Poland. It has been developed by Goodman, a global property group, which owns, ...
It said the new plant will be based in Wroclaw and will be a state-of-the-art plant. This will be Walki’s third production site in Poland. Initially, the plant will focus on serving the customer segments, Forest Industry and ...
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Canadian manufacturer of green packaging and tissue paper products Cascades has announced that the company will not proceed with the closure of its Norampac containerboard mill in Trenton, Ontario, as planned and announced in April 2012. ...
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Canadian manufacturer of green packaging and tissue paper products, Cascades has announced the closure of its Norampac containerboard mill in Trenton, Ontario. Negotiations for the renewal of the agreement took place from May 2011 to ...
In a joint study, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Russian government forecast an increase in Russia's volume of felled logs and growth in its output of lumber, wood-based panels, pulp, and paper until 2030. In the best ...
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West Fraser Timber Co. And Western Forest Products Inc. Are leading Canadian lumber producers to the biggest combined profit since 2006 as mills run at five-year highs to feed a U. S. Housing rebound and near-record Chinese demand. Lumber ...
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Metsä Wood has posted first-half operating profits of €16m from sales of €471m but the company hinted that its third-quarter performance would be hit by a number of factors. The company said that seasonal fluctuations in ...
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Raw log exports keep B. C. Taxpayers working. Del Horn forgets to remember that B. C. Is not the only place in the world to buy lumber from. If he wants raw log exports to stop and the logs made into lumber here in B. C., he must decide on ...
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The Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) is partnering with GreenCore Composites to develop a new green technology process that will allow wood fibre to be used in a number of new products for the packaging and ...
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It's been a good summer for sawmills in northeastern Ontario — and that has some thinking optimistically about the forest industry for the first time in years. More Americans are building houses this summer, bumping up lumber prices. ...
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Even as Canada declares victory in a major softwood lumber dispute with the United States, the organization representing British Columbia’s forest industry doesn’t expect the persistent American lumber lobby to reduce its ...
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Modern practices used in today's coastal B. C. Forestry sector have evolved substantially throughout the years. Nevertheless, old stereotypes die hard, and one of the biggest misconceptions is that our forest industry is dirty, dangerous ...
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British Columbia's independent forest practices watchdog says future timber supplies in the province are at stake and the Liberal government needs to get moving on management plans for pine beetle and fire damaged forests. A Forest ...
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