Plattenindustrie

Ireland calls for timber to be included in offsetting scheme

Forestry / Forstwirtschaft: afforestation, Aufforstung, Nachhaltige Forstwirtschaft, Nachhaltige Waldwirtschaft, SFM, Sustainable forest management

Forests / Waelder: LULUCF

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Plattenindustrie, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry, Pulp- and Paperindustry, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

Countries / Laender

The Irish Parliament is calling on the EU to agree that the country can used forest carbon sinks to offset its non-Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) emissions.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
23/07/2010
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.greenwood-management.com
Reference-Link: 

http://www.greenwood-management.com/news/article/ireland-calls-for-timbe...

Brazilian timber output halves in 10 years

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Plattenindustrie, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry, Pulp- and Paperindustry, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

Countries / Laender

Ten-year figures for the Brazilian timber industry show that production in the Amazon has fallen by 50 per cent.

The figures were published in a study carried out by the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) and the Institute of Man and Environment (Imazon), entitled 'Logging Activities in the Brazilian Amazon.'

They show that in 1998, roundwood production in the region was 28.3 million cubic metres while the figures for 2009 show total production to be only 14.2 million cubic metres.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
26/07/2010
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.greenwood-management.com
Reference-Link: 

http://www.greenwood-management.com/news/article/brazilian-timber-output...

Export duties on roundwood: Russia vs. EU

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Plattenindustrie, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry, Pulp- and Paperindustry, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

Countries / Laender

According to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Russia is to come to the terms in the field of export duties on roundwood. Moreover, Russia itself offered the EU to significantly increase  export duties on deciduous wood.

Russia is ready to increase export duties by tens %. It will mostly concern birch that is widely used in the Finnish industry, whereas in Russia this kind of wood is not practically processed by the Russian companies.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
26 July 2010
Publisher-Link: 
http://en.runa.info
Reference-Link: 

http://en.runa.info/content/view/754/39/

Russian Wood Statistics: wood processing in the first half of 2010

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Plattenindustrie, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry, Pulp- and Paperindustry, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

Countries / Laender

Statistics: wood processing in the first half of 2010  
External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
July 20, 2010
Publisher-Link: 
http://en.runa.info
Reference-Link: 

http://en.runa.info/content/view/752/39/

British Columbia's forestry job numbers

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Plattenindustrie, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry, Pulp- and Paperindustry, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

Countries / Laender

It seems that forestry employment numbers bottomed out last year in British Columbia and may now be making a rebound.

Here are some forestry job stats from British Columbia:

2005 – 79,700

2006 – 81,617

2007 – 84,275

2008 – 64,917

2009 – 51,958

2010 (Jan to May) – 55,200

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
Jul 16, 2010
Publisher-Link: 
http://foresttalk.com
Reference-Link: 

http://foresttalk.com/index.php/2010/07/16/british-columbia-s-forestry-j...

Karelia: OSB mill to be launched in 2012

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Plattenindustrie, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

Countries / Laender

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’. The first stage is to be launched in 2012 with capacity making up 300 thousand cubic meters per year. Total investment volume (first stage) amounts to over EUR 150 mln.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
July 2nd, 2010
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.internationalforestindustries.com
Reference-Link: 

http://www.internationalforestindustries.com/2010/07/02/karelia-osb-mill...

Impact of the global forest industry on atmospheric greenhouse gases

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Plattenindustrie, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry, Pulp- and Paperindustry, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

Article series

The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
June 2010
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.fao.org
Author: 
Reid Miner
Reference-Link: 

http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1580e/i1580e00.htm

Arkhangelsk region to continue realization of investment projects

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Plattenindustrie, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry, Pulp- and Paperindustry, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

Countries / Laender

There are 5 investment projects that are currently being realized in the Arkhangelsk region and are included in the list of priority investment projects. Total investment volume amounts to RUR 20 bln (EUR 0.5 bln). According to the approved schedules in 2008-2009 investment volume should have reached RUR 6.6 bln (about EUR 170 mln) whereas by January 1, 2010 the actual figure made up RUR 4.3 bln (EUR 110 mln).

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
31 May 2010
Publisher-Link: 
http://en.runa.info
Reference-Link: 

http://en.runa.info/content/view/740/39/

Komi to develop OSB production - Syktyvkar

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Plattenindustrie, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

Countries / Laender

Safwood (Italy) is to launch OSB production in the Komi Republic by February 2012. The mill will be constructed from scratch with investment volume amounting to EUR 125 mln, of them EUR 72.5 mln to be provided by banks.

The mill is to reach project capacity – 376 thousand cubic meters of OSB boards - by the end of 2012.

Safwood already has a mill for chipboard production – Syktyvkar woodworking mill – that was also constructed from scratch in Syktyvkar.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
20 May 2010
Publisher-Link: 
http://en.runa.info
Reference-Link: 

http://en.runa.info/content/view/735/39/

Renewable Electricity Plan concerns Forest Industry

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Plattenindustrie, Biomasse, Energie aus Holzbiomasse, Bioenergie, Forest energy, Biomass, Bioenergy, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry, Pulp- and Paperindustry, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

Forest Products Association of Nova Scotia (FPANS) has concerns with Nova Scotia's new Renewable Electricity Plan released on Friday (April 23rd) by the provincial government (.pdf).

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
Apr 28, 2010
Publisher-Link: 
http://foresttalk.com
Reference-Link: 

http://foresttalk.com/index.php/2010/04/28/renewable-electricity-plan-co...

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