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Nick Kirby will take up the post of Retail Country Manager and Managing Director, United Kingdom and Ireland, for John Deere Forestry, starting next year. Kirby will be responsible for sales and marketing of John Deere Forestry in United Kingdom and Ireland putting to use his 25 years of experience in sales and marketing within[…]

The 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2010. The conference will take place from the June 28 to July 2, 2010, and will be hosted by the British Forestry Commission on behalf of the United Kingdom. The event was last hosted in the UK in 1974. Preparations are under way[…]

International forest products company. Weyerhaeuser, has signed a letter of intent to purchase the Idabel sawmill owned by Freeman Brothers also doing business as Bibler Brothers Lumber Company. Idabel is currently a contract sawmill for Weyerhaeuser and a chip supplier for Weyerhaeuser’s Valliant, Okla., containerboard mill. It employs approximately 130 people and has the capacity[…]

Major equipment supplier, The Pöyry Group, has recorded improved net sales for the first nine months of this year of €512.7 million and a pre-tax profit of €53.2 million, partly thanks to a growing contribution from its forest industry. Net sales for the corresponding period in 2006 were almost 14% lower at €450.9 million, with[…]

John Deere Forestry Oy has won the Technical Creativity award from the City of Tampere for the design of TimberLinkTM, a system for measuring the performance and condition of forest machines. The John Deere team comprised Arto Peltomaa, Kari Lehmusvaara and Aki Putkonen was granted the award in recognition of their work in developing the[…]

Leading equipment suppliers Ponsse and Tigercat have gone head-to-head on the Discovery channel’s Mean Machines program aired in Canada and the United Kingdon earlier this year. The Ponsse BuffaloKing and a Tigercat 1075 were put through their paces in tests of speed, accuracy, load capacity, precision and stability. Speed Test: The operators needed to drive[…]

A mediator has been appointed to try to broker a deal on the fate of 29,000 acres of giant, 2,000-year-old California redwood trees, which environmentalists and loggers battled over in the 1990s, according to an ENN report. US Judge Richard Schmidt expressed frustration at the slow pace Maxxam subsidiary Pacific Lumber was moving since filing[…]

Research by management consulting firm ÉEM has indicated certification for wood and paper products by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is the most effective certification system for managing Canadian forests, a GreenBiz.com report said. The results compare FSC certification to three other standards used in Canada, the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI),[…]

Swedish drying kiln and equipment supplier, WSAB, has received a large order from Sib Export Group in Russia including two progressive kilns and seven compartment kilns. The deal is a part of the largest sawmill investment program in Russia where $100 million is being poured into a green-field sawmill close to Irkutsk in Siberia. The[…]

Swedish drying kiln and equipment supplier, WSAB, has received a large order from Sib Export Group in Russia including two progressive kilns and seven compartment kilns. The deal is a part of the largest sawmill investment program in Russia where $100 million is being poured into a green-field sawmill close to Irkutsk in Siberia. The[…]