--- NYT Logging Industry ---
2025-08-13 15:52 |
Anger over well-paid manufacturing jobs giving way to lower-wage work fueled President Trump’s rise. With his movement now in power, who gets blamed as the trend continues?
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-08-07 10:34 |
USNR has introduced...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-08-05 12:50 |
SAINT-GEORGES, QC, JULY 31, 2025 — Comact, a global leader in wood processing solutions, has announced the launch of the Wide Board Lug Loader, a next generation system engineered to handle oversized boards with cross-sections of up to 4 x 22 inches.
Building on the proven fundamentals of Comact’s industry-renowned lug loader, this new design addresses the growing need for high-performance solutions in specialty product manufacturing.
With a patent-pending design and a speed of...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-07-25 11:38 |
As a result of long-term cooperation, Hekotek AS has signed a contract for the supply of log feeding equipment, wood chips and sawdust and sawn timber conveyors to the Japanese company Chugoku Mokuzai (Chugoku Lumber Co Ltd.).
Chugoku Mokuzai is one of Japan’s leading wood processing companies with several production units across the country. The new sawmill will be built to replace the production unit destroyed in 2023 by fire in Ibaraki Prefecture on the eastern coast of Japan....
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-07-24 10:42 |
In today’s sawmilling industry, the difference between staying competitive and falling behind often comes down to how intelligently and efficiently a mill can process every log. Fiber variability, labor constraints, cost pressures, and rising customer expectations are reshaping the way sawmills must operate, and Comact is helping lead that transformation.
With its suite of integrated, high-performance technologies — including the Hybrid Sawline and the TBL4 – Canter, Double Profiler,...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-07-08 12:36 |
Trusted technology with a twist
For the first time in many years, an industrial scale sawmill will be built from the ground up in the UK. USNR is the main supplier and its undertaking comprises the saw line and two edger lines – including optimization and controls. All machinery equipment will be delivered from USNR’s Söderhamn facility in Sweden. USNR will also supply controls for the log handling and residue handling equipment.
The new mill is designed for an annual capacity...
--- NYT Logging Industry ---
2025-07-05 11:05 |
Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to fast-track nation-building projects to remake Canada’s economy. Indigenous groups want a seat at the table.
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-07-01 17:44 |
June July 2025 issue now available
Includes
Forwarders
Ponsse / Rottne / Komatsu
Cable Yarders
MM-FORSTTECHNIK GmbH
SYNCROFALKE® Cable Yarders: Revolutionizing Timber Harvesting in Steep Terrain
SAWLINES
USNR
For the first time in many years, an
industrial scale sawmill will be built from
the ground up in the UK
COMACT
AI-Powered Gap Control: How the
Smart Vision System Is...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-06-25 10:34 |
Portland, OR – June 24, 2025 – Yesterday, Hampton Lumber announced plans to build a new, state-of-the-art sawmill in Allendale County, South Carolina. This facility will expand Hampton’s presence in the U.S. and support the company’s long-term vision to become North America’s
preferred source of wood solutions. The new mill will specialize in producing high-quality Southern Yellow Pine framing lumber. This will be the company’s first new sawmill on the East Coast and once fully...
--- NYT Logging Industry ---
2025-06-24 03:50 |
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Clinton-era rule barring road construction and logging was outdated and “absurd.”
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-06-06 12:52 |
Springers team is already in full production of the machines for the customer. Starting in July this year, the system will be fully pre-commissioned at our headquarters in Friesach. The tested system is scheduled for delivery to the customer site (south of Austria) at the end of 2025.
The system will be equipped with a Robotic Sorting Line for the fully automatic and combined sorting of green and dry sawn timber with robots. The system is designed for a cutting volume of appr. 15,000...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-06-05 11:23 |
The Einari Award, the Einari Vidgrén Foundation’s key recognition, was granted to forest machine contractor Simo Kuittinen. Through Koneurakointi S. Kuittinen Oy, a company he founded, Kuittinen has extensive practical expertise in various business areas, ranging from the use and servicing of machines to administrative work. In association activities, Kuittinen has acted as the chairman of the Federation of Machine Entrepreneurs and is an honorary member of the Association...
--- NYT Logging Industry ---
2025-05-30 20:04 |
To view rivers only as sources and drains is to reduce them to base functions rather than to see them as the life-giving, world-shaping forces they are.
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-05-30 14:27 |
ECAT – EtherCAT MainDevice with Redundancy Port
The ECAT module provides EtherCAT MainDevice functionality, allowing control of electric motor drives and communication with other EtherCAT subordinate devices such as sensors and actuators. With two RJ-45 ports,
the ECAT module supports cable redundancy.
The RMC200 supports position, velocity, pressure, force and torque control, and single and dual-loop axes via EtherCAT.
Axes may be defined...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-05-26 15:49 |
USNR – Thank you to everyone who attended the weekend’s West Coast Dry Kiln Association meeting at Rosboro in Springfield, OR!
The event drew a sizeable crowd and included an exclusive tour of the mill’s recently converted dry kilns. USNR turned four of their existing double-track kilns into their patented UniFlow continuous kilns. Because of this, they have been able to increase production by 10-40% with more consistent...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-05-15 10:29 |
Holmen will reduce its output by 90,000 m3 at its sawmill in Braviken, Sweden reports Pulp and Paper news. As a consquence, the company will reduce its staff by 40 positions. That’s a third of the workforce.
Of course, it’s really sad and a great shame, this is not at all what we would like to do, says Johan Padel, business area manager at Holmen Trävaror, to Norrköpings Tidningar.
The sawmill is struggling with profitability problems. According to Padel, there are...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2025-04-29 15:26 |
– Climate change demands the development of optimally adapted forest stands.
– Active forest management delivers real added value to society.
– The use of state-of-the-art technology accelerates the sustainable reforestation of large areas.
Hanover, Germany. The supply of wood as a raw material is of central importance to the global woodworking and wood processing industry, which will gather at LIGNA 2025 in...
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