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
The Canadian sawmill group Canfor is poised to end production at its sawmill in Quesnel, British Columbia in March 2014. Canfor said that this decision was connected to very limited roundwood availability in the Quesnel region as a result ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
West Fraser Timber is addressing the effects of tight roundwood supply caused by mountain pine beetle infestation in parts of British Columbia by exchanging timber rights, closing mills and making targeted investments in less-affected ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Timber
The 5th International Hardwood Conference of the European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry will be held from 18 to 20 September in Brussels by the Belgian sawmill association Federation Nationale des Scieries (FNS). A market analysis is ...
Tags: Construction, Hardwood
On 20 June 2013, the Siberian lumber producer Lesosibirsky LDK 1 officially commissioned its new sawmill in Lesosibirsk. Two sawing lines, a HewSaw SL250 Trio and a HewSaw R200SE from the Finnish mechanical-engineering company Veisto were ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, coating
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
In the first three months of 2013, the USA imported a total of 6.093m m3 of softwood lumber, representing a year-on-year rise of roughly 16%. According to figures issued by the Foreign Agriculture Service the value of imported softwood ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, softwood lumber
Dieffenbacher has forged a partnership in the filed of lumberyard technology with Holtec. This comes after the group entered into partnerships with the Canadian firm Carmanah and with Leonhardt during the fourth quarter of 2012. Holtec is ...
Tags: Holtec, lumberyard technology
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 ...
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The Ukraine is planning to introduce export duty on roundwood for a period of five years starting from 1 January 2014. Under the latest draft law, which was examined by the Ukrainian parliament in February 2013 in its first reading, an ...
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Agents and importers report increasing procurement difficulties in business with African roundwood and lumber on account of transport problems within the continent and irregular shipment from the ports. Importers quote larger volumes of ...
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
During the course of the first quarter of 2013, European softwood-lumber suppliers showed a level of brisk demand unexpected in this form on the Japanese market. Following initially very sluggish purchasing behaviour by Japanese importers ...
Tags: European Consignors, Construction
German oak-roundwood exports declined by 18% to 75,142 m3 last year. The federal German statistics agency in Wiesbaden reports that the fall was primarily attributable to the sharp decrease in deliveries to China, which were down year on ...
Tags: oak-roundwood exports, Germany, roundwood
In north-western Russia, the profit situation in numerous sawmills has become more critical in recent weeks, as overpriced roundwood is contrasted by low lumber prices. In the Archangelsk region, softwood sawlogs are currently priced at an ...