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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[…]

S.P.B. Panel Industries Co. Ltd. broke into the wood-based panels market in 2006 with the commissioning of a Dieffenbacher particle board plant. Now, a new THDF/MDF plant will be installed on the same site in Surat Thani, Thailand. Based on its excellent experience with the first project, S.P.B. has selected Dieffenbacher once again. A 28-meter-long[…]

The expansion of UPM Otepää plywood mill, started in the spring of 2015 along with the building of the new bio boiler plant, has been completed and will be inaugurated today. The expansion increases the mill’s production capacity to 90,000 cubic meters per year. The new bio boiler plant, in turn, enhances the mill’s material[…]

Hiab, part of Cargotec, has opened the order books for the camera-based HiVisionTM control system for LOGLIFT and JONSERED forestry cranes.  HiVisionTM, which moves crane operation to the truck cabin, was first showcased in the Bauma exhibition in April 2016 and it has been demonstrated in several locations in Europe and Japan. Orders for the[…]

The rollout of John Deere’s G-series forest machines continues with the mid-size 1110G, 1210G and 1510G forwarders. All the models have the new 6.8L John Deere 6068 PowerTech Plus engine meeting the latest Stage 4/Final Tier 4 emissions regulations. The powerful engine offers more output and torque, and the even better coupling with the power train results[…]

The 880D supersedes the highly successful Tigercat 880 — a heavy duty, purpose-built forestry carrier that can be configured for loading, shovel logging or processing… The 880 stands out against converted excavators with higher horsepower, more robust construction and superior productivity. The first Tigercat 880D logger was a part of Tigercat’s live demonstration at DEMO[…]