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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Weyerhaeuser will soon produce JAS-certified OSB material for export to Japan. OSB (oriented strand board) panels are used in both residential and commercial construction in Japan, as wall and roof sheathing and as structural flooring ...
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In the industrial sector there are some drastic differences in how these units work when compared to one another as well as compared to boilers used in the conventional home. In the home the units are generally very simple to operate, even ...
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Lumber, panelboard, pulp and paper manufactured by member companies of the Alberta Forest Products Association was worth about $2.2 billion in 2011, a drop of $152 million - or 6.6 per cent - from 2010. In the fourth quarter of 2011, ...
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West Fraser’s fourth quarter saw $6.1 million in earnings, or $0.14 per share of sales. The figures are based off $650 million in 2011 and are after discontinued operations of $7.3 million or $1.47 per share on sales of $2, 762 ...
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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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The value of forest industry production grew to ?0.8 billion in 2011, up about 2% from the previous year. The value of the forest industry's exports increased by 4%. Advance data indicates that the volume of wood products industry exports ...
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Finland’s wood product exports increased by 4% in 2011, according to fresh statistics released by the Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF). While timber exports increased, pulp and paper exports remained at the same level as ...
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Vancouver-based West Fraser Timber -- North America's largest softwood lumber producer -- posted a fourth-quarter loss of $10.6 million, or 25 cents a share from operations hurt by weak lumber and pulp prices in October-December. It earned ...
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Certain industries benefit more then others from specific industrial products or machines. Heat exchangers are pretty popular across the board, but are absolute essentials for the paper industry. Without heat exchangers, paper mills would ...
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A growing surplus has arisen in supply on Germany’s sawmill residues markets during the course of December and at the beginning of the new year. This development initially led to sometimes marked cuts in prices for sawdust in some ...
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Timber and forest products companies are once more among the top performers in terms of minimising the risk of their activities causing deforestation, according to the latest report from the Forest Footprint Disclosure initiative (FFD). The ...
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Recent housing data suggests that 2012 may be the year of turnaround in the housing markets. While a healthy recovery for the markets still seems far away, the prices are now bottoming out. As a result of improving sentiment, the home ...
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Forest fires in Chile have destroyed Arauco’s plywood mill in Nueva Aldea. Hundreds of firefighters were involved in the operation to battle the blaze at Arauco’s site. The log yard and radiata pine plantations were also damaged ...
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