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Bandit Industries has announced it has been awardeded an additional contract from the National Joint Powers Alliance (NJPA) contract for Medium Duty and Compact Construction and Maintenance Equipment with Related Attachments, Accessories and Supplies. (Contract No. 042515-BAN). This was awarded in addition to Bandit’s existing NJPA contract for Landscape and Grounds Maintenance (Contract No. 031014-BAN). “Bandit’s previous Landscaping[…]

In Australia the state of Victoria’s low grade native timber could soon be packed into shipping containers bound for China and other cut-price countries for processing under a plan to help ailing state timber company VicForests. VicForests has been left without a market for hundreds of thousands of tonnes of so-called “residual” timber following the[…]

TPP talks see Canada and Japan wrangle over log export protections – As Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations are heading to a finale, there is concern in Canada that its most protected industry, British Columbia timber is under increased pressure. Canada is also pushing for tariff reduction in other forestry markets, while Japan is targeting Canada[…]

The US Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) will soon sign a five-year agreement designed to use former coal surface mined lands as sites for new chestnut tree plantings. The partnership says it has “the potential for propelling forward a reforestation renaissance on surface mines as[…]

Global Green Building Trends is a 50-page printed report (available as hard copy or PDF) that examines the results of research conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction Analytics regarding the global green building industry. The first ever global scale green building study, this report details the market trends and activities driving green building growth worldwide. The new[…]

Within the program of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) General Assembly 2008, FSC invites interested parties to attend a truly unique and timely event – a two-day forest conference at the Cape Town International Convention Center (CTICC). The Forest Conference is an opportunity to participate in the fifth General Assembly of members (GA), and a[…]

The world’s tallest hardwood tree has been discovered less than 5 km from Forestry Tasmania’s Tahune Airwalk tourism attraction. It is the only known standing hardwood tree in the world to be over 100 m tall. The trees are located in State forest, south of Hobart. Forestry Tasmania (FT) staff found the Eucalyptus regnans using[…]

According to the BBC’s Richard Black, Environment Correspondent, “the global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study. It puts the annual cost of forest loss at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion. The figure comes from adding the value of 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[…]