A technology to process bamboo into wood has been introduced in the country. Mr Samuel Nyantakyi Agyepong, an Assistant District Manager at the Western Regional Office of the Forestry Services Division announced at weekend during a ...
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Local timber mills are climbing out of the recession, but it's going to be a sluggish trip, said Wade Mosby, vice president of Collins Products, a company that employs about 170 people in Klamath Falls. "We think it's not going to get any ...
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Swedish softwood lumber producers are expecting the underlying market conditions to remain difficult in the business year 2012. Participants at this year’s timber industry conference Trämarknaden in Karlstad believe the main ...
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U. S. And Canada are prepared to extend a shaky softwood lumber trade agreement put in place seven years ago to benefit local mills, a U. S. Lumber lobbyist said Thursday in Longview. If approved, both sides will revisit the contract in ...
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Malaysian-based APP Timber has become PEFC International’s first Asian-based company in its membership. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, APP Timber specialises in the supply of imported timber-related products (sawn timber, logs, wood ...
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The measure comes in response to cabinet plans to scrap most government subsidies for nature conservation. The exact percentage will be announced later this month but the forestry service’s budget is expected to be cut by about 40 ...
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The German Association of the Sawmilling & Timber Industry (BSHD) says current production cutbacks at German sawmills will be followed by an extended Christmas shutdown period, with further curtailments likely in 2012. BSHD expects to see ...
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EUROPEAN softwood imports are continuing to stream into Australia, placing pressure on domestic producers as housing starts struggle. Imports of softwood sawn timber rose to about 156, 000 cubic metres over the September quarter, a rise of ...
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KUCHING: Sarawak's plywood prices are expected to firm up again as Japanese importers have resumed buying for reconstruction activities after March's devastating earthquake and tsunami. Sarawak Timber Association panel products' committee ...
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With weaker demand for lumber around the world, sawlog prices fell in a majority of the 21 markets tracked by the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ).The Global Conifer Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) declined in the 3Q for the first time since the ...
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PRE-TAX PROFITS at timber processing group Glennon Bros last year increased by 55 per cent to ?.8 million. The Longford group won the industry section in the Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year award last year. Results filed at the ...
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Most screws have slot heads and are driven with slotted, or standard, screwdrivers. Phillips-head screws have crossed slots and are driven with Phillips screwdrivers. Screws are measured in both length and diameter at the shank, which is ...
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Many German sawmills will operate an extended Christmas shutdown and are likely to curtail production in 2012, according to the German Sawmilling and Timber Industry Association (BSHD). BSHD made the prediction after discussions with member ...
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In the modern era of financial uncertainty, forestry investment has been hailed as a great way of securing a strong return by the latest Forest Market Report 2011. Carried out by property consultants Savills alongside woodland specialists ...
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LONDON: Finnforest hosted a 'meet the press' day last week at which it shared its predictions for the New Year about how it will be proceeding and what the timber market will be like in 2012. "Although some elements of the market have ...
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