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Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Schnittholz, Lumber, Sägerundholz, sawlogs, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry

A Wellington company's joint venture deal to process pine timber in China will funnel extra investment back into New Zealand sawmills, a director says.

Forest industry company Forme Consulting Group signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese manufacturer Tianjin Sunwin Group this week to build a factory for processing softwood logs for sale in the European and Chinese building industries.

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Schnittholz, Lumber, Roundwood, Rundholz, Sägerundholz, sawlogs

Forestry Ministry Zulkifli Hasan said the Finance Ministry had agreed to proposals to remove value-added tax (VAT) imposed on log products.

He claimed former finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati had signed a proposal to cancel the tax when she was in the office.

“[Mulyani] agreed to cancel VAT for log products. The regulation will take effect this month. This is good as it will not burden industries because raw materials were not supposed to be taxed,” he said Sunday.

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Roundwood, Rundholz, Sägerundholz, sawlogs, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry

Hekotek signed new contracts – two log sorting lines are to be supplied to the sawmills of Eastern Siberia (Irkutsk region and Krasnoyarsk area).

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Sägeindustrie, Schnittholz, Lumber, Roundwood, Sägerundholz, sawlogs, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry

The cost of building timber will rise by up to 10 per cent from next month due to a severe supply shortage and booming international demand for New Zealand pine.

Shortages are developing across a wide range of product lines, the Timber Industry Federation says in its latest newsletter.

Big reductions in production due to plant closures and reduced work times have more than offset the downturn in domestic construction, the federation says.

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Pulp, Zellstoff, Holzprodukte, Pulpwood, Rundholz, Sägerundholz, sawlogs, Timber products

Wood Resource Quarterly has reported that imports of logs, lumber and pulp to China increased substantially in the second quarter of 2009 as the country’s economy grew by almost 8%.