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The Finnish Forest Industries Federation and the Finnish Paper Workers’ Union have concluded a new collective agreement covering workers in the paper industry for the period 1 June 2008 – 31 March 2010. Wages will rise by about 4% at the annual level, the pay system will be reformed and workers’ job security will be[…]

Pöyry has been commissioned to provide engineering services for the rebuild of Mondi’s Syktyvkar pulp mill in Russia worth E10 million. The services incorporate detail engineering for mechanical, electrical and instrumentation disciplines extended over the whole pulp mill. The work will be performed by Pöyry’s Finnish and Russian experts. Mondi Syktyvkar is in the process[…]

UPM estimates the result for its sawn timber business will be weaker than forecast in the second quarter of 2008. Also the full year profitability outlook for the sawn timber business within the Wood Products Division is expected to further weaken markedly. UPM will start employee negotiations for the possible closure of Leivonmäki sawmill in[…]

Carter Holt Harvey has begun a process to purchase the timber manufacturing operations and timber distribution business of the Weyerhaeuser Australia Group. This includes the interest in Green Triangle Forest Products held by a fund advised by Global Forest Partners. The offer includes: Pine Solutions Australia GreenTriangle Forest Products Manufacturing Weyerhaeuser Company Weyerhaeuser is also[…]

Hamilton, Ohio-based Smart Papers will run its paper mill on 100% renewable energy, breaking ground on a co-generation biomass facility at its manufacturing center in Hamilton, according to an online report from Clean Technology. The $30 million power plant was expected to be complete by spring 2009. “The production of these papers will leave the[…]

The 8th International BBE-conference for Wood Energy from the 09th-10th of September 2008 on the fairground Augsburg is the central platform of the wood energy sector and has established itself as the most important meeting point for actors in the wood energy sector. Respectively 300 participants during the last years show the importance of the[…]

Farmers, foresters and biomass producers can apply for up to £200,000 each under a new round of grants opened today by Environment Minister Phil Woolas. The Bio-energy Infrastructure Scheme will support the biomass industry in England by helping those supplying biomass fuel for use in heat and electricity generation. Phil Woolas said: “We have to[…]

A newly FSC certified company in the USA is recycling old raft logs – so called boomsticks – into a host of fine lumber products. The company expects to sell much of its product line to developers and builders involved in the environmentally sensitive US construction industry. Columbia Riverwood received FSC chain of custody certification[…]

Innovatek reports in Friday Offcuts that this week the Australian forestry industry has been united in its opposition to an announcement made by CSIRO. After Ensis, the joint venture research grouping between CSIRO in Australia and its equivalent in New Zealand, Scion was wound up earlier this year – after only two years of operation[…]

Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) and the Tropical Forest Trust (TFT) announced that the major timber company has more than doubled the amount of certified rainforest it operates in the Congo Basin, creating the largest ever tract of contiguous certified tropical forest in the world, a total of 750,000 ha. To meet the standards for[…]