Looking back – Report 2009 http://forestportal.efi.int/content/view/169/15/ Land areas around the world totalling more than the size of Canada have been identified as having potential to be restored to good quality, healthy forests, a new study has found. As the global effort to help tackle climate change by reversing the alarming loss of forests steps up,[…]
Wood is an established and versatile construction material, used to build everything from high-rises and airports to apartment buildings. It also, however, is not immune to catching fire. A new coating could help keep that from happening, and it’s actually made from wood. Developed in Finland by scientists at the VTT Technical Research Centre, the[…]
While both New Zealand and Russia are at the top of the leaderboard for softwood log imports into China, as the accompanying table shows, Russia tops the leaderboard for sawnwood imports. That is largely driven by export tariffs on logs by Russian government which incentivises sawing Russian logs on their side of their border with[…]
Log export markets – This week WoodWeek.com has received it’s monthly update from the Champion Freight team. In short China is up again, all other key Asian log markets are down. The chart shows total log export values to China year-on-year to the end of March were up 20 percent year-on-year contributing to overall log[…]
Over 22 million tons of wood pellets were shipped globally in 2018, up 21% from 2017. The US, Canada, Vietnam, Latvia and Russia, accounted for 69% of global exports in 2018, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review Global trade of wood pellets jumped more than 21% year-over-year in 2018 when a new record of[…]
A company is now producing drones designed to fire seed missiles into fields, aiming to help restore the world’s forests. According to National Geographic, between 1990 and 2016, the world lost 502,000 square miles of forest due to a combination of humans cutting them down, and natural factors including wildfires. With deforestation affecting all life[…]
In December 2018, Te Uru Rākau, the Forest Owners Association and the Forest Industry Contractors Association, with support from Competenz, surveyed the New Zealand silviculture and harvesting sectors’ labour requirements for 2019. The results were published last month. As the move into planting season begins, the responses and results from the survey you may find[…]
The first eucalypt seedlings will be planted out in the Latrobe Valley this winter to meet the Victorian Government’s 2017 promise to spend AU$110 million growing hardwood plantations to support the state’s timber industry. Agriculture Minister Jaclyn Symes launched the plantation programme at Yallourn North, where crown land will be used to establish plantations. But[…]
Toyo Engineering Corporation has been awarded a contract for a project to construct a 51,500kW biomass power plant. This plant will be built in Ishikari- shi, Hokkaido, Japan for Ishikari Shinko New Energy Hatsuden Godo Kaisha. This project is to construct a dedicated biomass-fired power plant using imported fuels such as wood pellets and PKS[…]
Softwood lumber prices have generally fallen faster than the costs for sawlogs throughout the world in late 2018, resulting in lower margins for the sawmilling sector, according to the WRQ. In western US and western Canada, margins fell to unprofitable levels and many sawmills in the region curtailed production in late 2018 and early 2019.[…]