CN Rail has announced it will buy 350 centrebeam lumber cars to serve growing demand from lumber producing customers across its North American network. “We are investing to move the economy as we put the rolling stock, infrastructure and people in place to serve the growing needs of our valued customers,” said JJ Ruest, interim[…]
Renholmen has received an order for new green sorting line equipment for Hedlunds Timber in Furudal. The family-owned sawmill in northern Dalarna already owned a green sorting line from Renholmen, built in the late 1970s and now, after long and faithful service, to be replaced by a more modern successor. The delivery, which is almost[…]
From May 14 to May 18, IFAT will again host the world’s leading trade fair for water, wastewater, waste and raw materials management in Munich. JENZ will once again be part of the exhibitor program this year and present itself both on the IFAT exhibition grounds and on the VDMA outdoor area. At booth 351/450[…]
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BioCarbon Engineering (BCE), a UK company with the ambition to plant 500 billion trees by 2060 through the use of drones, has received a funding boost of US$2.5 million. The seed investment comes from SYSTEMIQ, a purpose-driven investment and advisory firm that aims to tackle economic system failures, and Parrot, the leading European drone group.[…]
Timber Queensland is calling for the development of a new timber industry plan in partnership with the Queensland Government to help guide and deliver on the opportunities for industry expansion over the next decade. This is a particular focus of discussions at the timber industry’s 2nd biennial ‘Doing Timber Business in Queensland: Room to Grow’[…]
A key focus for this year’s WoodFlow 2018 event running in June is log measurement, scaling and tracking. Tasmania’s largest private forestry management company, Forico, has for a couple of years now been evaluating log measurement systems best suited to their operations. As well as managing 100,000 ha of timber plantations the company also operates[…]
In a recent article by Russ Taylor, Managing Director of FEA Canada, he outlined how the recent run on lumber prices has put big smiles on the faces of North American sawmill operators and lumber traders. Mill prices for all lumber species in North America have been trending higher since preliminary U.S. import duties began[…]
In celebration of Earth Day at Bleckley Elementary School, Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), made a landmark announcement for the agency recognizing that forest biomass is a carbon neutral renewable energy source. COCHRAN, GA. (PRWEB) APRIL 23, 2018 Biomass In celebration of Earth Day at Bleckley Elementary School, Scott Pruitt,[…]
The Beck Group (Beck) and Forest2Market, Inc. today announced a partnership to launch Sawmill TQ (Top Quartile), a new service for gathering and delivering Southern Yellow Pine sawmill benchmark data to industry members. The partnership combines Beck’s sawmill benchmarking experience and knowledge with Forest2Market’s SilvaStat360 cloud-based interactive business intelligence platform. Sawmill TQ subscribers will have[…]