Deep in the forests of Borneo island, workmen from an Indonesian timber company fell a tree with a chainsaw, stick a red tag with a serial number onto it and attach a corresponding stub to the stump. This is all part of an arduous ...
Tags: Borneo island, Indonesian, timber, auditing process, illegal logging
The draft legislation on the amendment to the timber-trading safeguard act (HolzSiG) already passed by the German Parliament and the Upper House in March 2013 came into force on 8 May. Up until that date, the law only regulated national ...
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The European Timber Regulation (EUTR), which penalises illegal timber imports into the EU, is to take effect on 3 March 2013. European timber merchants thus have less than three months left to put in place a due diligence scheme and modify ...
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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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Since this year, timber prices, let furniture manufacturer to unbearable. The fierce market competition let manufacturers to small talk rises in price, and more rising costs, and make the enterprise in declining profits, even the condition ...
Tags: price, Raw Materials, timber, Furniture
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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Although, the eu ban illegal timber imports and trade bill until 2013 to implement, but, ikea (China) has finalized the furniture of Russian imports from next year 100% get FSC authentication raw material forest, how to reside, the home ...
PLANS to stamp out the importation of illegally-logged timber will not damage Australia's relationship with Indonesia, the federal government says. Draft legislation aims to slap fines and or imprisonment on importers who source ...
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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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Imprisonment is one of the penalties facing timber importers in the Australian government's new legislation prohibiting the importation and sale of illegally logged timber. The Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill (2011), now being debated in ...
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's timber and timber-derived products exports are expected to be around RM20 billion to RM21 billion this year, almost equalling last year's exports totalling RM20.5 billion. Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries ...
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EU imports of tropical sawn timber remained steady in the first six months of 2011 compared to a year ago, according to the latest market report of the International Tropical Timber Organisation. Volumes rose to 607, 000m³ (2010: 602, ...
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In the log sheet, from 2011, has been subject to freight, labor, raw material price increases, soaring timber prices can be described. Aftermath of the financial tsunami and hurricane shocks after shuffling, plywood and March 2010 came the ...
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