International Forest Industries

NZ forestry production and trade data for the March 2010 quarter is now available on the web. Details can be found at address below*. Key points - compared with the same quarter of the previous year (March 2009) are; (more…)

LMI Technologies Inc. (LMI) has announced a 5 year warranty on all of its chroma+scanTM products. This includes the 2000, 2400, 3000 and 4000 family of products (sold based on  standard list price) (more…)

Eucalyptus pulp log prices in Brazil have been very stable in the local currency and they have hardly changed at all since 2006, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly. (more…)

John Deere Construction & Forestry  has launched a woody biomass website (www.woodybiomass.com) designed to educate and inform about the importance of harvesting woody biomass. (more…)

With the recent redesign of the popular Bandit Model 3090 Track Chipper, land clearing contractors and loggers now have unrivaled power and productivity without sacrificing operator comfort.

Key upgrades to this 30″ capacity chipper include a roomy, spacious operator’s cab  provided with a rear entry door, an emergency escape door on the left and a pop-out escape window on the right. (more…)

John Deere Construction & Forestry’s new Knuckleboom Loaders are bulked up over their predecessors for improved durability and performance.

Productivity-increasing features include the fuel-efficient John Deere 6068 Tier 2 PowerTechTM engine with a high-pressure common rail electronic fuel injection system for improved cycle times and new Pressure Compensated Load Sensing (PCLS) hydraulic pumps with a dedicated swing pump to deliver responsive, efficient hydraulic power to all functions. (more…)

Friday offcuts  ran a couple of stories recently on the release of a new map for New Zealand’s forest products industry. The 2010 full colour maps, (more…)

April 2010 was a month where record volumes of pinus radiata logs were shipped out of New Zealand. The vast majority were headed for Asia where other suppliers such as the USA and Canada, are also ramping up supply. The ability of Asia and in particular China, to absorb the increased supply, is being tested. (more…)

The Administration of Komi Republic and DOK Kalevala has recently signed a Protocol on cooperation in construction of a woodworking mill in Petrozavodsk. DOK kalevala is to become the first company in Russia that will produce different kinds of OSB. reports ‘Runa’. (more…)

 Metso will supply a roll wrapping machine and conveyors to the joint-stock company JSC Solikamskbumprom for the company’s mill in Solikamsk, Russia. The wrapping machine is scheduled to start up next spring. It will serve two of the mill’s four paper machines, PM1 and PM2. The value of the order will not be disclosed. (more…)

More horsepower plus new hydraulic and operating systems. Those are some of the innovations on John Deere’s new bundler, the 1190E, which was shown for the first time at World Bioenergy in Jönköping, Sweden.

“Machines for handling biomass are an important part of our product mix,” explained Per Väppling, marketing manager for John Deere in Sweden and Norway. (more…)

“The basis is a Morbark 3800, which we’ve equipped with a rotary base, tracks, cab and grapple boom. The result is a chipper that can easily navigate forest roads. Because it’s completely mobile, one operator can manage the entire process from the raw material to the finished chips in containers.”

The speaker was Mats Johansson, who is in charge of sales of Morbark in Sweden. At World Bioenergy 2010 in Jönköping, Sweden this machine concept was shown for the first time. (more…)