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Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced last month the successful go-live and implementation of the Land Resource Manager (LRM) and Business Resource Manager (BRM) enterprise planning solutions at Coillte, Ireland’s largest commercial forestry company. Trimble’s LRM solution is an intuitive, interactive and spatially aware enterprise application for managing land and forestry operations. The BRM solution simplifies financial[…]

Vermeer has expanded its stump cutter lineup offering increased options for the customer. The new SC362 stump cutter was developed with rental yards and tree care contractors in mind offering a compact, high horsepower machine for stump removal. Equipped with a 35-hp (26.1 kW) Vanguard engine, a hydraulic ground drive and a belt driven cutter[…]

OptiSaw is a time-effective and affordable learning and networking opportunity for those driving the future of sawmilling in your operation. The focus is on the future of optimization and automation in our industry, including challenges and opportunities on the cutting edge of this side of the industry. Lucidyne’s own Patrick Freeman is giving a presentation[…]

The step by step process to create high performance and sustainable bio-based alternatives to plastics has moved forward again thanks to a new product from Stora Enso, a wood-based biocomposite – DuraSense. This innovation, enables the use of renewable fibres, such as wood, to substitute for a large portion of fossil-based plastic. The production of[…]

Coillte predicts Irish forestry will double in value to nearly €5bn. But chief executive Fergal Leamy insists State is slow to embrace sector’s potential reports Eoin Burke-Kennedy – Irish Times. The chief executive of Coillte estimates that output from Irish forestry will double in value to nearly €5 billion over the next 10 years, as[…]

David Pelly MA MSc has joined Tilhill Forestry’s Investment and Property team. His appointment adds to the wealth of knowledge and resources Tilhill can provide to people wanting to invest in the forestry sector. Pelly who lives in South Queensferry, Scotland, has taken on the role of Investment Forester after joining from forestry agents John[…]

Softwood logs and softwood lumber imports to China have more than tripled in ten years with lumber volumes surpassing logs by 36% in 2017, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. Imports – China imported record high volumes of softwood logs and lumber in 2017, making the country the largest log importer in the world and the[…]

Arana & Runa Kuru of A & R Logging NZ have recently taken delivery of a new Cat 568LL forest machine for their East Coast operation, featuring a SATCO 325T processing head reports NZ Logger. Arana is cutting up shorts in the Hikurangi Forest Farms log yard for a few months before taking the machine[…]

DC Equipment officially launched the Falcon Forestry Equipment brand (FFE) to U.S loggers at the 2018 Oregon Logging Conference in Eugene Oregon on February 22-24. “It’s been a really good year for FFE in New Zealand, Canada and Chile. Being able to officially launch the brand and our Falcon Winch Assist in the U.S in[…]

‘More than enough’ wood fibre to supply proposed $180M Kawerau plant, report says – Concerns that there may not be enough wood fibre to supply a new $180 million particleboard plant proposed for Kawerau have been quashed by an industry study which concludes “there is more than enough wood available” although it notes the increased[…]