Production of plantation timber in Sabah past the 1 million m³ mark last year for the first time. Total production from plantations reached 1.23 million m³. Sabah Forestry director Datuk Sam Mannan said total production from ...
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Chinese timber firm Sino-Forest has filed a US$4bn defamation lawsuit against Muddy Waters, the research and investment firm which released a report last year accusing it of fraud. The news follows Sino-Forest’s announcement last week ...
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JAVA --High fuel costs are squeezing local loggers and a Java sawmill already hurt by a slump in new home construction. Lumber demand, which is the highest it’s been in the past five years, is not the problem for the Gregory Lumber ...
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The roundwood-export ban initially planned by Gabon for implementation on 1 January 2010 and finally introduced from the middle of May 2010 resulted in significant changes in Gabonese timber trading. As emerges from the export statistics ...
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New research from the University of Adelaide could help protect one of the world's most globally threatened tree species -- the big leaf mahogany -- from extinction. Big leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) is the most prized mahogany ...
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The slightly growing demand for beech lumber since the beginning of the year has spread to other assortments and sales markets in the course of the last few weeks. An increasing number of sawmills has been using this as an argument for ...
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At its annual general meeting on 9 March 2012 in Madrid, AIEM, the Spanish timber importers and timber industry, association voted unanimously in favour of the revised code of conduct for the import of wood products. AEIM has thereby ...
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The business trend among Scandinavian forestry and timber groups has weakened further overall in the fourth quarter of 2011. Most companies also showed declines in turnover and results from October to December, after the previous two ...
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The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has achieved a “world first” for securing FSC and PEFC project certification on the Olympic Park site, with 100% of wood products supplied certified as “legal and sustainable”. ...
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Northern Minnesota’s logging industry is suffering along with the rest of the national wood products industry, but leaders of trade groups say loggers who’ve held on so far are likely to survive. Since the downward trend started ...
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All major trade associations representing the forestry sector have together launched a declaration outlining the eight practical steps required to be undertaken by industry, stakeholders and international trade partners to achieve ...
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With only 13 per cent of the world’s surfaces covered with forests and growing concerns over deforestation and illegal logging, combined with the spectre of global warming, supply is severely restricted. One of the wood types most ...
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The Forest Wood Industry is aiming to triple its roughly $4.5 billion export market over the next decade, led by the development of stronger timber products that are more resistant to earthquake damage. About 70% of forest production is ...
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Sri Lanka’s Special Task Force has arrested 11 people and seized a large consignment of illegally felled timber worth more than one million rupees (£5, 000), as well as machinery and tractors. Teak, sandalwood, palu and katakala ...
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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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