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Chinese wood products production and demand increased in 2016, fuelling log and lumber import gains from Russia, but also from the USA, New Zealand (logs), Australia (logs), Canada (logs) and Europe (lumber). Final year-end statistics for 2016 show that China’s imports of logs and lumber have rebounded strongly from the slowdown in 2015. Softwood lumber[…]

Forico last week demonstrated its long-term commitment to the plantation forestry sector in Tasmania as it completed its extensive 2016 planting programme reports Woodweek. A total of 7 million seedlings (more than 6,300 ha) were planted during the season from September to early January. “This is perhaps the largest current plantation establishment programme by a[…]

Taranaki’s logging contractors are gearing up to harvest a bumper crop over the next few years as trees planted more than two decades ago begin to mature. Many of the plots around Taranaki were planted in the 90s, with most taking between 25 and 30 years before they were ready to be cut. New Zealand[…]

The German truck manufacturer MAN sees Europe’s forestry sector as an increasingly important market. That’s why the company is exhibiting at the world-leading forestry fair Elmia Wood 2017 in the new Load & Transport area, which brings together everything to do with logistics en route from the forest to the industrial consumers. “Our focus is[…]

Wood products manufacturer Woodgrain Millwork, Incorporated announced it is building a $4-million pellet mill at its Lenoir manufacturing site along Complex Street that will create 15 new full-time jobs. The 15,000-square-foot project, which is expected to be completed this spring, will manufacture and package wood fiber pellets to be used for animal bedding and fuel[…]

Enviva Holdings, LP (“Enviva”) publicly released the first data from its groundbreaking Track & Trace (T&T) program. T&T is a proprietary system that enables Enviva to track every truckload of wood the company procures from the forest back to its source, providing a detailed understanding of the characteristics of the wood the company uses. Demonstrating[…]

The new Multistar One screen makes waste wood and biomass processing highly efficient. An upstream Crambo or Terminator handles the shredding. The new One then separates out a defined useful fraction while returning overlengths to the shredder. The combination of Crambo shredder and Multistar screen has proven its value many times, and now it’s better[…]

Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) recently announced the completion of the sale of its Cellulose Fibers pulp mills to International Paper for $2.2 billion in cash. Weyerhaeuser expects to use a substantial portion of the $1.6 billion after-tax proceeds for repayment of debt. The sale, which was announced in May 2016, includes five pulp mills located[…]

Siempelkamp to supply two new MDF/HDF plants for Chinese Yekalon-Jiufngyuan Panels, Inc. and Vanachai Group Public Limited in Thailand. Yekalon, one of the leading suppliers of building and decoration materials ordered an 8th Generation 9’ x 33.8 m ContiRoll® press as the core of the line. The scope of supply will include a flash tube dryer by[…]

Only 17 months after Dieffenbacher unveiled the new continuous CPS+ press at Ligna 2015, the first plant with a CPS+ press has been successfully put into operation. After a seven-month assembly period, the first board was produced according to plan on October 1, 2016 at Kronospan’s new particleboard plant in Bjelovar, Croatia “The process of[…]