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On Tuesday, March 7, leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate reintroduced the Timber Innovation Act, a bill to increase research and development of innovative forest products, which will ultimately help create or sustain markets for forest products for family woodland owners reports Matt Hestad The bill, which was originally introduced in 2016[…]

JoeScan, Inc., a leading manufacturer of 3-D laser scan heads for sawmills, released its newest scan head in its JS-25 X-Series, the JS-25 X6B late 2016. The JS-25 X6B is a high-performance, six-laser scanner, specifically designed for high-density, snapshot-scanning of logs on carriage headrigs. Each JS-25 X6B scan head can be mounted end-to-end to scan[…]

Rörvik Timber plans to shut its two sawmills at Boxholm and Myresjöfönster in Sweden. The company had tried unsuccessfully for a long time to find suitable owners for the two mills in south Sweden. It has started closure negotiations with the unions and expects the decision to take effect by the summer 2017, reports TTJ.  […]

West Fraser announced that Larry Hughes will retire as Vice President, Finance and CFO at the end of March 2017. Chris Virostek will become Vice President, Finance and CFO upon Mr. Hughes’ retirement. Virostek is a Chartered Professional Accountant, CA and has held a number of senior financial roles at Masonite International Corporation since 2002,[…]

Almost 50% of the fiber feedstock for wood pellet plants in the US South was industry and forest residues in the 1Q17, up from 33% five years ago, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review. Wood pellet manufacturers in both the US and Canada are increasingly diversifying their feedstock to reduce fiber costs and[…]

While BC forestry companies face a long-term decline in the annual allowable cut in the Interior, thanks to the mountain pine beetle infestation, BC companies on the coast have been exporting raw logs, mostly to China, in record volumes in recent years.   According to a recent Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) report, one[…]

On 21 February, the 12,000th PONSSE forest machine was handed over to the customer at Ponsse’s Vieremä factory.  The PONSSE ScorpionKing was received by a French family company called Sarl NC Bois from Trémilly. “We have co-operated with NC Bois for a decade and I am very glad to be celebrating the 12,000th forest machine[…]

Komatsu Forest has introduced the Komatsu Traction Aid Winch, a high-quality capstan winch based on more than ten years’ experience of working with winches in the alpine regions of Europe. In 2017 Komatsu Forest will begin delivering the Komatsu Traction Aid Winch for the Komatsu 875 forwarder and the Komatsu 911/230H and Komatsu 931 harvesters.[…]

The negotiations will concern an adjustment of Epec Oy’s operations to the market situation and improving efficiency in order to ensure the company’s competitiveness and profitability. The aim of the negotiations is to achieve a minimum of EUR 1.5 million in savings through possible redundancies, changes to part-time employment and changes in work duties. The[…]

The John Deere commitment to production-class equipment continues with the introduction of the 950K Crawler Dozer. The 950K is the second production-class crawler dozer designed and manufactured by John Deere in Dubuque, Iowa, and is built specifically for customers needing reliability in road building, site development, the energy sector and other large-scale applications. This machine[…]