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Bandit Industries Returns to NASCAR for 2014 with Parker Kligerman Following a great 2013 NASCAR season with rising superstar Parker Kligerman, Bandit Industries will return to the stage at Daytona International Speedway with Kligerman in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on February 21. Bandit will serve as co-primary sponsor for Kligerman, driving the No.[…]

MOSCOW  – Deere & Company officially opened its new manufacturing and parts distribution facility south of Moscow today in Domodedovo. The John Deere Domodedovo facility is the company’s largest single investment to date in Russia. The facility will manufacture agricultural, construction and forestry machinery as well as distribute service parts in the region. “Russia has[…]

Innovation has taken us from being a small sawmill equipment supplier to a global leader in manufacturing machine systems to create panels and plywood, dimensional lumber, fingerjointed components and engineered wood products. We supply product and service solutions for plants around the world including Canada, Chile, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, China, the United Kingdom,[…]

Swedwood Karelia’s FSC certificate has been suspended. The suspension affects 295,348 hectares in the Russian Karelia region. FSC’s annual audit report for Swedwood Karelia LLC reveals six Major Corrective Action Requests (CARs) and 11 Minor CARs. Because five Major CARs were still open, the Audit Report led to the immediate suspension of Swedwood Karelia’s Forest Management[…]

ScanMeg, with input from some of its customers, has developed a secret weapon against downtime on canter lines that you can employ to increase throughput by 3 to 5% by spending pocket change. You don’t have to send budgets to the Board of Directors for approval to get an instant payback simply for redeploying your[…]

As a manufacturer of complete packaging solutions, we have all the necessary expertise and facilities under one roof: engineering, production, assembly, and service. The most reliable technology for compressed packaging on the market wasn’t built in a day. Back in 1993, Willems Baling Equipment was a pioneer in fully-automated bale packaging. And our continuous improvements,[…]

Demand expected to drive further recovery over the next two years – Housing demand in the United States was a key reason for the lumber market crash in 2009. As U.S. housing, and more importantly housing starts, continue to recover, the North American softwood lumber industry is expected to see both demand and price increases.[…]

Timber transport on steep and slippery forest tracks hauling gross weights of 74 tonnes imposes immense demands on the timber rig’s drive properties. That is why Volvo is testing hydraulic front-wheel drive on one of the trucks in the ETT – ‘En Trave Till’ (One More Pile) timber haulage project. “We can already see major[…]

Dasa has been involved in the development of computerized bucking systems for industrial forest harvesting ever since its foundation in 1986. For forest owners and forest industry professionals alike, Dasa is synonymous with production efficiency and optimized forest value. The units we deliver today are fifth generation systems – dasa5. They have inherited their functionality[…]

Chugoku Lumber, the largest Douglas fir lumber manufacturer in Japan, decided to reduce dry beam lumber prices by 2,000 yen ($19.6) per cubic metre after lumber market has been weak since April after the consumption tax was increased by 3%. Movement of structural materials has been slowing since last January, ITTO reports. The prices peaked[…]