Arto Tiitinen, President and CEO of Ponsse Oyj, will start as CEO of Keskisuomalainen Oyj on June 1, 2008. The Ponsse board will appoint a new CEO in the course of spring. “Having worked with agricultural and forestry machinery for 22 years, I find it’s time to look for new challenges. Regarding Ponsse, the targets[…]
The “Kuratorium für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik” (KWF) is once again holding its innovations contest within the framework of the 15th KWF-Tagung 2008. At the same time, the BMELV is awarding money prizes totalling 10,000 Euros for “Excellent technology for small private forests”. All exhibitors are eligible for participation. During KWF-Tagung 2008, innovative forest technology developments[…]
CSIRO and Monash University in Australia have developed a chemical process that turns green waste into a stable bio-crude oil. The bio-crude oil can be used to produce high value chemicals and biofuels, including both petrol and diesel replacement fuels. “By making changes to the chemical process, we’ve been able to create a concentrated bio-crude[…]
The National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) in Australia and Timber Communities Australia (TCA) have welcomed the Garnaut Interim Report which has identified the positive role forestry can play in addressing climate change. NAFI’s acting CEO, Allan Hansard, said he was particularly pleased that Professor Garnaut has recommended forestry be part of an emissions trading[…]
The FOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL (FSC) says good progress was made last year on FSC brand penetration and market growth. The FSC has launched a market information pack that provides many indicative and revealing figures and statistics on FSC growth, market share, label recognition and other strong indicators of the growth in supply and demand for[…]
New wood availability forecasts for the East Coast compiled by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will assist with future regional planning for the forest industry and provide infrastructure agencies with credible data for future planning, says John Vaney, Regional Team Leader with MAF Policy in Rotorua, New Zealand. The forecasts covering the period 2007[…]
There has been much reported concern recently about continuing deforestation in Amazonia. But there are of course some sustainable operations there. One reported recently by Reuters is a plantation operation on the Jari River in northern Brazil, which “is being hailed as a model for preserving the world’s largest rain forest.” Located in the heart[…]
Unprecedented levels of new investment and the ability of wood processors to fight off fierce global competition is a “major success story” for the timber industry in Scotland, according to Environment Minister Michael Russell. In the last two years alone, investment in new wood processing projects has amounted to £250 million ($488 million), which is[…]
The co-determination negotiations at UPM’s timber components and planing mills in Luumäki have been concluded with the company deciding to close the operation. The purpose of the negotiations was to clarify options for continuing the operations of the timber component mill in a situation where the mill has been unprofitable for a long time. Simultaneously,[…]
The goal of a 38% increase in the use of renewable energy, would be extremely demanding and costly for Finland to implement. An increase of just one percentage point here is roughly equivalent to the volume of wood used by one pulp mill in an entire year, according to the Finnish Forest Industries Federation. Emissions[…]