Wahlers Forsttechnik GmbH received the 2016 PONSSE Dealer of the Year award and OOO Ponsse won Subsidiary of the Year award. The Balmoral service centre of A.L.P.A. Equipment Ltd. won the PONSSE Service Centre of the Year award. The German dealer Wahlers Forsttechnik GmbH was named the Dealer of the Year for the fourth time.[…]
Kadant Carmanah Design, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc. (NYSE: KAI), received an order for two pocket batch feeders from Tolko Industries Ltd. for an OSB line upgrade at its High Prairie facility in Alberta, Canada. The equipment is expected to be online in the first quarter of 2018, when the High Prairie facility resumes operation[…]
New innovations start with the large diameter infeed roll that is sensitive enough to permit grass clippings, brush, limbs, pallets, slabs, logs and stumps to be fed at variable speeds for continuous rather than batch feeding. The H-3060 Horizontal Grinder Includes: Caterpillar C-15, 565 HP [373kw] Diesel Engine 30″ Diameter “Double-Cut” Hammermill 60″ Wide Variable[…]
Engineered wood eases labour constraints for commercial building – Labour shortages are limiting growth in both commercial building, with the recent profit downgrades at Fletcher Challenge highlighting the depth of the problems. However, commercial wood solutions already being implemented by industry leaders in Australia, Canada and New Zealand and hold the key to removing labour[…]
Rise in total output value of China’s forestry industry – According to the State Forestry Administration (SFA), in the first half of 2017 the total output value of China’s forest industry rose 7.4% to RMB 2.77 trillion. The total value of China’s foreign trade in wood product rose 11% to US$71 billion. The increase has[…]
NZ export log prices weaken as higher kiwi dollar bites – New Zealand export log prices generally declined over the past month as a gain in the New Zealand dollar made the country’s products less competitive. Most grades of New Zealand unpruned logs weakened by between $1-to-$3 a tonne, with A-grade logs falling to $124[…]
Tigercat is pleased to announce the launch of RemoteLogTM, the company’s new telematics solution. RemoteLog was designed after extensive field research that included feedback from customers from around the world. The result is a simple, robust telematics solution that works even in the most remote locations. Now loggers can track key machine performance metrics from[…]
WoodTECH 2017, will be attracting again scanning and sawing technology leaders, innovators and practitioners from around the world. This events has the objective to be an independent platform to showcase the very latest in wood scanning, sawmilling, and mill optimization technologies best suited to local sawmilling companies as well as providing a series of practical[…]
Global demand for Swedish wood is constantly rising. Södra delivered to 17 countries in 2005 and the figure has increased to 38 countries to date this year, ranging from the US in the west to Japan in the east. “This is a very positive trend that we can also see on a global scale. Timber[…]
To expand production capacities at its Portugese Mangualde location, Sonae Arauco decided to order a MDF/HDF plant from Siempelkamp. The scope of supply includes a forming and press line with a complex handling system for different board lengths and widths and an interface to the existing storage system and the sanding and packing lines. The[…]