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TPP talks see Canada and Japan wrangle over log export protections – As Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations are heading to a finale, there is concern in Canada that its most protected industry, British Columbia timber is under increased pressure. Canada is also pushing for tariff reduction in other forestry markets, while Japan is targeting Canada[…]

Wood Resource Quarterly reports that softwood sawlog prices increased in Russia during the second quarter, in contrast to the sharp decline noted during the first. Contrary to earlier price movements, this time it was the domestic market rather than the export market that was the main price driver as the housing market in western Russia[…]

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[…]

Softwood sawlog prices have gone up faster in Europe than in any other region of the world the past two years, according to Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). Because wood costs account for 65-75% of the production costs when producing softwood lumber, they are the key factor determining a regions or company’s competitiveness. In the 1Q/08,[…]

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[…]

Whilst illegal loggers are threatening Sierra Leone’s few remaining forests, including the Outamba-Kilimi National Park, a turf war is being waged between key Government departments tasked with tackling such issues, according to NGO Global Witness. Global Witness has called for new President Ernest Bai Koroma to bring much needed direction and law enforcement to Sierra[…]

John Deere Forestry Oy has won the Technical Creativity award from the City of Tampere for the design of TimberLinkTM, a system for measuring the performance and condition of forest machines. The John Deere team comprised Arto Peltomaa, Kari Lehmusvaara and Aki Putkonen was granted the award in recognition of their work in developing the[…]

An ecologically strategic piece of one of the world’s most threatened habitats – the Atlantic Forest of Brazil – will be reforested and protected as part of a partnership brokered by Rainforest Alliance and organisers of the Transat Jacques Vabre, according to an ENN report. Jacques Vabre – the coffee brand behind the transatlantic yacht[…]

New Zealand’s sawn timber exports to China have been ‘hammered’, while raw log shipments surged in the wake of Beijing’s efforts to cool the economy and amid increased sales by rival forestry nations such as Canada, according to the industry lobby group. Hannah Lynch Lumber exports fell 16 percent to $264 million in the four[…]

Pukepine Sawmills, New Zealand orders USNR’s BioVision technology Mail:05240273 USNR’s BioVision technology is advancing on the land down under with an order for a new grade scanning system to be installed at Pukepine Sawmills, Te Puke, New Zealand. The order includes a Multi-Track Positioning Fence, 6M (20’) USNR Grade Scanning Trimmer Optimizer system featuring BioLuma[…]