Foreign holdings in U. S. Forests and farmland rose by 6.7% in the last 10 months of 2010, encompassing an area roughly the size of Indiana, according to a new report by the Department of Agriculture. The report, containing the most recent ...
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Timber build specialist B&K Structures has supplied cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels for the construction of a London school gym and three classroom blocks. The modernisation work at Preston Manor School was undertaken by Kier ...
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Seattle -- Prices for woody biomass in the US, whether sawmill by-products, forestresidues or urban wood waste, have been sliding for most of the past three years, but werestill higher late in 2011 in most regions than they were five years ...
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The timber trade has given further positive reaction to the publication of the Independent Panel on Forestry’s final report to government. As reported in TTJ, the panel has made the bold recommendation that incentives be used to ...
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The young man dressed in a dark blue overcoat wipes sweat from his brow as he struggles to carry a 20-meter piece of timber to a lorry. With the timber balancing delicately on his right shoulder, he walks for about ten meters and places it ...
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Hikers in the area of Purgatory Brook may soon encounter a sight not often seen in the woods of Wah Lum: Large trucks and other equipment working on timber harvesting. The project was originally scheduled for the winter but will get under ...
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Timber groups are being urged to pull the plug on Tasmania's forest peace talks, just 10 days out from a final deadline. It comes as an influential environment group reiterates it will not accept anything other than all high conservation ...
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THE ENVIRONMENT department has formed two fact-finding teams that will investigate field officers amid unabated illegal logging operations in Mindanao, the agency announced yesterday. In a statement, Environment Secretary Ramon Jesus P. ...
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According to Rettenmeier Holding the sale process for the subsidiary Rettenmeier Polomka Timber, which has been in progress since mid 2011 was concluded on 30 June 2012. Purchaser and new owner of the company is myWood, which is associated ...
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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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Denholme-based CR Taylor (Timber) Ltd has been closed by administrators after running up losses, but the central Bradford merchanting business has been bought back by former chairman Charles Taylor. The company, which had significant timber ...
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According to the organiser Malaysian Timber Council 70% of stand space at the second staging of the MTC Global WoodMart from 4 to 6 October in the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) had already been booked by the end of May. 86 ...
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Superior disaster resilience of new high tech engineered timber products are being touted at a world timber conference being held Auckland next week. More than 500 timber professionals from all over the world will gather at the Skycity ...
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Output from James Jones & Sons’ Timber Systems Division in Forres has defied expectations in the first half of the year, largely as a result of the mild winter and encouraging levels of activity from national and regional ...
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Does the export of raw logs to China hurt or help British Columbia's economy? NDP leader Adrian Dix is rallying for export tariffs on logs, which would put a hard stop on the export of raw logs from B. C. That are being shipped and ...
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