The Swiss pellet manufacturer Pellet du Jura commissioned new pellet manufacturing machinery in early April 2012. The project involved a fundamental overhaul of a pellet plant that the subsidiary of the Swiss hardwood sawmill Corbat Holding ...
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The Canadian timber concern Canfor started a total investment in May 2012 of roughly Can$40m in the modernisation of the Radium and Canal Flats sawmills in British Columbia. Most of the investment sum will go to the Radium sawmill which was ...
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STATIONERY NEWS: Australian Paper recently announced a feasibility study into the development of a major recycling plant at its Maryvale Mill as part of its Future Fibre Strategy. Can you summarise some of the key aspects of the Future ...
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Setra intends to close down its Horndal pine sawmill in Avesta. The company announced on 14 May 2012 that associated negotiations with employee representatives were to begin on the basis of the Swedish Co-determination Act (MBL). Closure of ...
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VANCOUVER - Canfor Corp. (TSX: CFP) said Thursday it will spend $40 million on capital improvement projects at its sawmills in B. C. 's Kootenay region. The company plans to spend $38.5 million on a new planer, a biomass energy system and ...
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UPM-Kymmene intends to dispose of its Kajaani sawmill and its Heinola and Aureskoski processing plants by the end of 2012. The restructuring plans for the business units “Timber” and “Living” announced on 11 April ...
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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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VANCOUVER, BC - Canfor said it has completed the acquisition of the Tembec Industries Ltd. 's southern British Columbia interior wood products assets. The $60 million deal, first announced Nov. 28, 2011, includes Tembec's Elko and Canal ...
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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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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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Canfor (TSX: CFP) announced today that further to its news release of November 28, 2011, it has completed the acquisition of the Tembec Industries Ltd. ("Tembec") southern British Columbia interior wood products assets consisting of the ...
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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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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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A warm winter is rare in the Arkhangelsk region, an inhospitable, vast Russian tundra bordering the Barents and Kara seas. But this year it came close, with temperatures rarely dropping below -6C until the middle of January. Welcome relief, ...
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J. U. A. Frischeis started thermally modified timber production at its subsidiary J. F. Furnir in Romania. The thermally modified timber production plant supplied by the Finnish sawmill equipper Jartek boasts capacity of roughly 3, 200 ...
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