Carter Holt Harvey has begun a process to purchase the timber manufacturing operations and timber distribution business of the Weyerhaeuser Australia Group. This includes the interest in Green Triangle Forest Products held by a fund advised by Global Forest Partners. The offer includes: Pine Solutions Australia GreenTriangle Forest Products Manufacturing Weyerhaeuser Company Weyerhaeuser is also[…]
Hamilton, Ohio-based Smart Papers will run its paper mill on 100% renewable energy, breaking ground on a co-generation biomass facility at its manufacturing center in Hamilton, according to an online report from Clean Technology. The $30 million power plant was expected to be complete by spring 2009. “The production of these papers will leave the[…]
Farmers, foresters and biomass producers can apply for up to £200,000 each under a new round of grants opened today by Environment Minister Phil Woolas. The Bio-energy Infrastructure Scheme will support the biomass industry in England by helping those supplying biomass fuel for use in heat and electricity generation. Phil Woolas said: “We have to[…]
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[…]
Forest2Market.com reports that loggers in the US South have seen profits hemorrhage due to the rising cost of diesel. High fuel costs have pushed a number of loggers, already hit hard by the housing slump, out of business and, without state aid, many more could follow says the Mississippi Loggers Association (MLA). In an open[…]
Australia’s State of the Forests Report 2008 has been released by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. The 2008 report was prepared by the Montreal Process Implementation Group for Australia (MIG) on behalf of the Australian, state and territory governments. It can be viewed on adl.brs.gov.au. A3P CEO Neil Fisher said, “The report is[…]
Catalyst Paper plans to cut employee numbers at its two largest mills in British Columbia, Canada, as it tries to cope with rising input costs and a relentless fibre shortage made worse by recent sawmill closures. At Elk Falls mill in Campbell River, reductions will affect approximately 145 hourly and staff employees as the #1[…]
Pöyry has been awarded implementation engineering services contracts by Stora Enso Oyj for combined heat and power plant projects in Belgium and Germany. The value of the contracts is over €3 million. Stora Enso is improving energy efficiency through investments totalling EUR 260 million at the Langerbrugge mill in Belgium and the Maxau mill in[…]
Energy is critical to all development efforts across the globe. The absence of reliable energy supply could hamper development efforts, especially for struggling Third World economies. The link between energy and development constitutes the focus of an African Development Bank Group study – Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries – released in Maputo,[…]
A unique worldwide tree planting initiative, aimed at empowering citizens to corporations and people up to presidents to embrace the climate change challenge, has now set its sights on planting 7 billion trees. It follows the news that the Billion Tree Campaign has in just 18 months catalyzed the planting of 2 billion trees, double[…]