17.11.2012 − At the beginning of October 2012, the Tsiglomen sawmill, which is owned by the northern Russian timber-industry company Sawmill 25 commissioned a newly installed sawing line which had replaced the existing line. The new ...
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19.11.2012 − The timber-export company Kullik & Rullmann took over the English firm Gill & Robinson with effect from 1 November 2012. In the negotiations which have been in progress for several months, the German trading company was ...
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21.11.2012 − Representatives of the Polish state forest agency Lasy Panstwowe (LP) and the Polish Chamber of Commerce of Timber have recently agreed on the introduction of roundwood contracts with a term of up to three years for ...
23.11.2012 − Weinig has lowered its revenue forecast for 2012 amid the worsening state of the market as a whole. The company now expects to book consolidated group revenues of around €320m. This figure would be the same amount as ...
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Lowline Underground Park Exhibit Features Arup Daylighting 'Imagining the Lowline,' a free exhibition in Manhattan's Lower East Side showcased Arup's research into a proposal for the world's first underground park.The exhibit, September ...
With a population of 1,250,458, the Kazak ethnic minority is mainly in Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, Mori and Barkol Autonomous Counties in Xinjiang, as well as in Qinghai and Gansu Provinces. Language: Kazak language belongs to ...
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Sophie Mirrabella … ‘strict standards’ One of Australia’s most powerful trade unions, the CFMEU, has backed a Federal Opposition proposal to enforce strict new safety standards on imported goods. Speaking in ...
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On 31 October 2012, the Federal German cabinet passed a draft amendment s to the Holzhandels-Sicherungs-Gesetzs (HolzSiG – Timber Trading Safeguard Act), which came into force in July 2011. With that amendment, the HolzSiG is ...
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The conspicuous growth in incoming orders since the fourth quarter of 2011 has been increasingly reflected in the Finnish machinery producer Raute's turnover figures since the third quarter of 2012. At 9.9m (Jan. -Sept. 2011: 21.6m) ...
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Finnish timber-giant UPM-Kymmene achieved an improved operating profit of m in its Forest and Timber business division in spite of lower sales and shipments in the third quarter. Without consideration of extraordinarycosts for the ongoing ...
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Two certification organisations - the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) - are presently making changes to the information required as part of their certification ...
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BAC Sag & Hyvleri filed for bankruptcy at the responsible district court in Luleå. In an interview with the Swedish press, managing director Gosta Gustavsson said the situation was due principally to a decline in sales figures. On ...
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At the beginning of October, Klausner Holz Thüringen started to dismantle the sawmill plant in Domat/Ems, Switzerland. Prior to that, the bankruptcy and execution agency in the district of Imboden in Trin had approved the start of ...
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In September, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 49.8 percent, up by 0.6 percentage points month-on-month, which was close to the threshold, and was the first rebound after falling for four consecutive months ...
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The decline in turnover and results figures already recorded by Danish timber trading group Dalhoff Larsen & Horneman (DLH), during the first three months of 2012 continued during throughout the period from April to June. Thus turnover in ...
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