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New Zealand log exports hit a new record last year, underscoring the concerns of local manufacturers that the country is sending too many unprocessed logs overseas, posing a threat for local timber supply in the future and undermining the goal to add more value to exports. The country exported NZ$2.41 billion of softwood logs in[…]

Log harvests from Tasmania’s private forests are at record highs, with further increases expected. Tasmania’s private forest log harvest is the highest recorded since 1994-95 when Private Forests Tasmania (PFT) began collecting data. Logs from hardwood plantations dominate the harvest, which are expected to increase slightly and then stabilise as the State’s plantation estate matures[…]

Wood products company Setra is investing in a new trim saw with integrated planing machine at its mill in Hasselfors. The investment is expected to deliver major efficiency gains and help to strengthen Setra’s position in the global construction market. Setra’s Board has decided to invest in a new trim saw with integrated planing machine[…]

Komtasu Forest have released two new forest machine simulators – including a full- sized KF 500 simulator and the KF 50 laptop model The new models include many new functions for improved functionality and performance. Both simulator models have new software and include the latest machine models for both harvester and forwarder simulation. The simulators[…]

#EcoLog created a sensation at the last #ElmiaWood by presenting a study about the forwarder of the future. This time the company will offer far more down-to-earth news. “We’ll be exhibiting a new machine ready for production,” says Daniel Majgren, chief marketing officer at Eco Log. A lot has happened at the company over the[…]

Four months before Elmia Wood opens, the organisers confirm it will be the world’s biggest forestry fair ever. “By January we’d already sold more stand space than at the previous Elmia Wood in 2013,” says Exhibition Manager Jakob Hirsmark. Elmia Wood has been the world’s leading forestry fair for many years. Decision makers from around[…]

The German truck manufacturer MAN sees Europe’s forestry sector as an increasingly important market. That’s why the company is exhibiting at the world-leading forestry fair Elmia Wood 2017 in the new Load & Transport area, which brings together everything to do with logistics en route from the forest to the industrial consumers. “Our focus is[…]

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[…]

Payments from polluters in rich countries to tropical communities in exchange for slowing deforestation may soon play a bigger role in combating climate change if problems like measuring preservation efforts can be overcome. It’s a bit of a minefield,” Michael Brune, the executive director of nonprofit group the Rainforest Action Network, told the Reuters Global[…]

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.[…]