Norske Skog has acquired Nature’s Flame, the market leader for wood pellets in New Zealand, Norske Skog announced. The company has a domestic market share of around 70%. The initial investment is small, with new production assets acquired at a fraction of construction costs. Initially, Norske Skog will lift the annual production at the company[…]
Neuenstein-based HEPACK druck+verpackung GmbH has invested around Euro 12 million in overhauling its entire production and logistics operations. The construction work created an additional 5,000 square meters of space and the flow of goods was completely redesigned based on the lean principle. Production is now organized efficiently with two new large, format 6 presses from[…]
The Gladstone Ports Corporation in Queensland now has the second largest log export operation in Australia, processing one shipment per month with a new woodchipping facility. The new log and woodchip is a collaborative effort to salvage timber plantations that were impacted in the Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Marcia earlier this year. Thousands of hectares[…]
Steep terrain harvesting can be expensive and have high safety risks. Mechanised ground-based machines are increasingly being used on steeper slopes to decrease harvesting costs and improve safety by removing the manual tasks of tree felling and choking. Recently, researchers set out to determine whether the slope that the machine was operating on was the[…]
Modern day sawmill machine centres collect vast amounts of information about logs, lumber, breakdown solutions, downtime, productivity and more. However, more technology has not made life any simpler for mill managers. In fact, it has become more difficult to keep track of whether the technologies are being utilized properly or not, especially as machines are[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]