Bandit authorized small equipment dealer Cal-Line Equipment has expanded its operation to cover Southern California, bringing its knowledgeable sales staff and service technicians to the Southern California city of Santa Fe Springs, southeast of downtown Los Angeles. The grand opening event is scheduled for Sept. 25-26 at the new location at 13030 Firestone Blvd., Santa[…]
Tembec has received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for its forestry practices over a 711,020-ha public forest in Senneterre, in Abitibi-East, Quebec. “Achieving FSC certification is the culmination of months of hard work and represents a well-deserved recognition of the efforts of our Senneterre team,” said Dennis Rounsville, Executive Vice President and President of Tembec’s[…]
Congo, home to the world’s second largest tropical forest, has launched a review of all timber contracts in an effort to clean up a business rife with corruption and to recoup millions of dollars in lost taxes, according to a report by Environmental News Network (ENN). The World Bank-sponsored initiative will look at 156 deals,[…]
The Tembec and Kruger joint venture, Marathon Pulp., has received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for its forestry practices on the Big Pic Forest in Ontario, Canada. “This certification demonstrates our desire to expand Tembec’s 2001 commitment to seek third-party FSC certification for all of its forest operations by working with external supply partners to[…]
Fourteen states have been selected as the first developing country members of an innovative partnership and international financing mechanism to combat tropical deforestation and climate change. The 14 developing countries include six in Africa (the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar); five in Latin America (Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guyana, Mexico, Panama); and[…]
APF 2008, the UK’s largest arboricultural, woodland and forestry exhibition will be the biggest yet according to Exhibition Secretary Ian Millward. “We have already had a record number of Exhibitors book with us, including many who are exhibiting for the first time. We have sold 4,250 m of demonstration frontage, that is over 2.5 miles[…]
Recent allegations made by Greenpeace that Danzer Group evaded paying taxes in the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo are totally without foundation, the company, the world’s largest manufacturer of hardwood veneers, says. “They are an absurd, populist gimmick designed to cloud the current public discussion surrounding tax evasion in a misleading[…]
The 8th International BBE-conference for Wood Energy from the 09th-10th of September 2008 on the fairground Augsburg is the central platform of the wood energy sector and has established itself as the most important meeting point for actors in the wood energy sector. Respectively 300 participants during the last years show the importance of the[…]
Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) and the Tropical Forest Trust (TFT) announced that the major timber company has more than doubled the amount of certified rainforest it operates in the Congo Basin, creating the largest ever tract of contiguous certified tropical forest in the world, a total of 750,000 ha. To meet the standards for[…]
Deere & Co has announced plans to significantly expand its presence in Russia, one of the most important growth markets of the company in both agriculture and forestry. Deere has signed an agreement with the Government and local authorities to invest approximately $80 million in a central operations centre which includes a distribution, replacement parts[…]