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Wood fibre prices worldwide have been rising steadily for the past six years, reaching record levels in 2Q/08. Expanding demand for renewable energy may potentially drive prices even higher in many countries in the near future, according to Håkan Ekström, president of Wood Resources International. Since 2002, global average prices for pulpwood have risen 67%[…]

International efforts to combat climate change received a boost in mid September with consensus amongst a diverse group of global forest leaders on a new set of principles dealing with sustainable forestry. A two-day meeting in Washington, organized by The Forests Dialogue (TFD) in conjunction with the World Bank, covered a wide range of issues.[…]

ConFor has set out its case to UK MEPs opposing the moves by the European Parliament to amend radically the plant protection directive. The EC propose to change the approvals systems for pesticides in Europe from one based on risk assessment to one based on hazard criteria. The effect of these proposed changes will be[…]

Wood fibre costs, the major cost component when producing wood pulp, increased in practically all major pulp-producing regions around the world in the 2Q/08, according to the market report Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). This was both a result of a continued weakening of the US dollar against most major currencies and because of higher transport[…]

MagForestry recently commissioned wood chip plant located in the port of Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo is operating successfully (IFI, February 2008, pp32-35). Production has achieved a target rate of about 2,000 t/d of eucalyptus chips with total production to date of approximately 70,000 t. The annual production target is 500,000 t of wood chips. De-barked[…]

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 news the sawmilling fraternity was waiting on has arrived, with major North American sawmill supplier USNR swooping in to snatch up fellow supplier Coe Newnes McGehee (CNM) for an undisclosed sum. The only stakeholders more pleased by the result than CNM’s customers would be the CNM employees and the community at the company’s Salmon[…]

Forest2Market has available a new resource study, The US South Forest Biomass: An Emerging Industry in Wood Fiber Markets. This delivers a comprehensive, quantitative assessment and forecast of the economic affects of rising energy costs and changing public policy on the forest products supply chain. Until now, while much has been said about the potential[…]

WWF has announced that more than 1 Mha of Congo Basin forests have achieved certification under the world’s leading sustainable forestry scheme. The world’s second largest block of rainforests, the Congo Basin is a haven for indigenous peoples and endangered species like elephants and gorillas. It is also important in sequestering carbon and safeguarding water[…]

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[…]