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Vocational training should fortify the ability of workers to handle a wide range of different jobs, while university education should be honed to ensure that training and teaching coincide more closely with the forest industry’s future needs, according to the Finnish Forest Industries Federation. “The forest industry’s vocational and university teaching should come more closely[…]

The National Association of Forest Industries in Australia has welcomed incoming Prime Mininster Kevin Rudd’s move to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Rudd reiterated his intentions at the Bali Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which started this week. NAFI CEO Catherine Murphy said forestry was the only carbon positive industry[…]

The first chips were fed into the digester in the Fray Bentos Botnia pulp mill in Uruguay earlier this month. The start up process is proceeding fluidly, according to the scheduled plan. The start up process began when the recovery boiler was turned on with fuel oil in order to generate the necessary high pressured[…]

A US forestry company with most of its mills and 1,700 employees in British Columbia has filed for bankruptcy protection – it is the first major corporate failure in what many say is the industry’s worst downturn in memory, according to a report in a local paper. Portland-based Pope & Talbot filed for protection after[…]

Europe’s biggest papermaker Stora Enso Oyj plans to cut magazine, newsprint and pulp capacity as well as jobs after reporting a surprise third quarter loss as wood costs soared and the US dollar fell, according to an online report from Bloomberg. The loss was €439.9 million down from a profit of €58.9 million a year[…]

Former Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said environmental standards at the Gunns’ Tasmanian pulp mill would be the world’s best, but some specialist observers of the cutting-edge Swedish pulp and paper industry doubt his claim, according to a report in Australian newspaper The Age. Two years ago, three Swedish pulp and paper mills found small[…]

The Finnish Forest Industries Federation is revamping its network services with the aim of boosting the efficiency of its lobbying activities. The first modernised services have been opened and the totality will be upgraded by the end of this month. The Federation’s network services have the aim of increasing the effectiveness of lobbying and boosting[…]

The Finnish Forest Industries Federation is revamping its network services with the aim of boosting the efficiency of its lobbying activities. The first modernised services have been opened and the totality will be upgraded by the end of this month. The Federation’s network services have the aim of increasing the effectiveness of lobbying and boosting[…]

Söderhamn Eriksson has signed a contract with James Jones & Sons in Scotland for the delivery of machinery worth some €11 million. The order comprises debarking, log intake, sawline, edging and waste handling. The sawline features the most advanced technology for log and cant feeding, reducing, band sawing and edging and will produce 140,000 cu/m[…]

With the first edition of International Forest Industries set to land on the desks of the global forestry community in early December, 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[…]