Japan will start a five-year plan this year to harness a new form of energy using biomass to produce auto fuels and other industrial products currently made from imported petrol, according to a Reuters report on the Environmental News Network. Japan can supply a part of alternative fuels made from wood-origin ethanol as well as[…]
Harvard graduate and former UPM-Kymmene Strategy Executive Vice President, Heikki Malinen, has been appointed as Pöyry President and CEO. Malinen will take up the position on June 1, 2008. He replaces Erkki Pehu-Lehtonen. In the past ten years Pöyry has become a major player in the consulting and engineering sector under Pehu-Lehtonen’s leadership. The company[…]
Research in Australia showing that Murray River flows are strongly impacted by bushfires has vindicated calls for conservation forests to be actively managed to reduce the frequency and severity of major bushfires. Research by scientists at the CSIRO Forest Biosciences has found that the 2003 bushfires could reduce flows into the Murray River by more[…]
Pöyry has divested its French subsidiary Pöyry Energy (Strasbourg) and sold its 100% ownership in the company for to €600,000 because the subsidiary’s profile and product portfolio is not in line with the current strategy of Pöyry’s Energy business group. The company’s annual net sales are about €2.5 million and it is debt-free. As the[…]
Chinese authorities this week unveiled a reforestation plan to plant 2.5 billion trees covering more than 5.3 Mha in 2008, China’s top forest management official said yesterday.Last year, the country increased its forest coverage by 5.2 Mha, equivalent to 2.27 billion trees. It produced forest goods valued at about 1.2 trillion yuan, 9.85% more than[…]
Tembec has suffered reduced production because of a reduced work week, both at its Elko sawmill and its corresponding planer mill.The company will tolerate a similar situation at its Canal Flats sawmill and corresponding planer mill starting next week. Over the next three months, Tembec will take the equivalent of three weeks of production downtime,[…]
With the first edition of International Forest Industries landing on the desks of the global forestry community early this month, the IFI editorial team has started putting together stories and information for the first edition of the New Year. The launch edition of the magazine included a general overview of current industry issues through the[…]
Tembec has successfully started a new tertiary refiner line at its high yield pulp mill in Chetwynd, British Columbia, which it says will increase production by 10,000 air dry metric tonnes/y (ADMT). The capital cost of the project was less than $1 million. Executive Vice President and President of the Pulp Group, Yvon Pelletier: “The[…]
Indonesia’s climate change credentials have suffered a serious set back after a key player in the country’s illegal logging business was acquitted of criminal charges over the destruction of 58,000 ha of virgin Sumatran forest, according to a report in The Australian newspaper. Businessman Adelin Lis was the subject of an international manhunt and what[…]
On December 11, World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick launched a groundbreaking financing mechanism to combat tropical deforestation and climate change. The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) was developed because some forests are more important left standing than cut. It will reduce deforestation and forest degradation by compensating developing countries for carbon dioxide reductions[…]