A rescue plan for Canada's forest industryTo say that times are tough in the Canadian forestry sector is a gross understatement. With the U.S. housing collapse and global financial services meltdown, the sector has lost 50,000 jobs and more than 250 mills over the past two years.
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Forest Products Industry CEO's on how to reboot global economy
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...for Finland
Wednesday, June 10th 2009:
Vladimir Putin just confirmed not to rise export duties on roundwood for Finland as long as the economic downturn crises lasts.
Both Governments concluded a bilateral timber trade commitment reports Business Support Bureau "Runa"
Monday, 10th of August 2009:
President Dmitry Medvedev called for “intensified talks” with Finland
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...für Finnland
Mittwoch, 10. Juni 2009:
Vladimir Putin bestätigte gestern das Aussetzen der Erhöhung des Zolls auf die Ausfuhr von Rundholz aus Russland nach Finnland.
Beide Regierungen haben ein Handelsabkommen über Rundholzexporte geschlossen - berichtet das Russische Handelsbüro "Runa"
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Record losses of Global Forest Products Industry in 2008TORONTO, June 24 /CNW/ - The Top 100 Forest, Paper and Packaging (FPP) companies from around the world saw net income tumble from positive $13.8 billion in 2007 to record losses of $8.0 billion in 2008, the first time this metric has been negative since 1996, the date PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) began the annual PwC Global Forest, Paper & Packaging Industry Survey. This year's survey shows that:
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China forestry sector output totals $195 blnChina forestry sector output totals $195 bln, up 13% year on year
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50% of North American OSB capacity closedThe extreme weakness in the U.S. housing industry has created a huge over-supply of OSB capacity with no other options or markets to pursue. This has led to below cost prices for much of 2009.
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Timber-import trade associations merge to European umbrella federation ETTF12 August 2009: The interests of the European timber trade will be represented by the newly established umbrella organisation European Timber Trade Federation (ETTF) in the future.
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Two Forest Industry Projects to be postponed in Komi, RussiaTwo large investment projects – included in the list of federal priority projects – were frozen in the Komi Republic with total investment volume amounting to some 70 bln RUR (EUR 1.7 bln). They being:
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Forest Products Markets 2008/2009 Outlook
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Over 10,000 jobs already lost in Finnish forestry sector Finnish forestry’s contribution to the national economy has dropped by half since the start of the new millennium.
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Forest Sector Downturn slowed in Q2 2009Canada's forest, paper & packaging (FPP) sector continued to be negatively impacted by the global economic downturn during the second quarter of 2009.
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The UNECE Market Review 2008 - 2009The current economic crisis is hitting hard the forest products sector across the UNECE region, according to the UNECE/FAO’s Forest Products Annual Market Review 2008-2009.
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Russian Forest Sector News at a glance
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Downturn Shreds European Forest ProductsThe forestry industry in Europe, the former Soviet Union and North America last year suffered the biggest decline in demand for wood since the 1970s, and that wasn’t even the worst of the news for this foundation business.
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Lumbering Logistics GrowsMost pulp and paper producers have built up significant in-house logistics operations alongside their core business, reflecting the specialized nature of forest products transportation.
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Forest-based sector to search for fresh business opportunitiesOct 15 2009 A research conference for the European forest-based industry and cluster will focus on the creation of new business opportunities for the sector. The event will be held in Stockholm on 9-11 November 2009.
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Study shows trees have impact on Georgia’s economyAs Americans mark National Forest Products Week from Oct. 18-24, a new report shows Georgia’s forest products industry has a significant impact on the state’s economy.
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Forestry needs new markets and new products The new deputy minister of forestry in Ontario says the old days of the forestry industry are over and the leaders and the workers of that industry have to look for new directions and new ideas if the North is to profit from the vast quantities of wood fibre that remainin our
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UPM and Sveza to postpone realization of project in Vologda region for 2 years UPM-Kymmene (Finland) and Sveza Group postponed realization of the project on construction of a large timber industrial complex in the Vologda region for 2 years.
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UPM to restructure plywood and timber operations in FinlandNov 3 2009 UPM plans significant restructuring of its plywood and timber operations in Finland. Almost 900 jobs will be cut, but this time not in UPM's pulp and paper operations.
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India's wood imports show impressive growth rates!New Delhi, Nov. 10, 2009 (RISI) - Although the growth in softwood log imports in India is impressive, at least 80% of India's log imports are hardwood. Teak logs are imported from Myanmar, various African countries, and Central and South America.
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Indonesia: Industrial forest output to increase 36 percentThe supply of logs from the country's industrial forest (HTI) is expected to rise by 36 percent to 18.5 million cubic meters next year with the issuance of more forest development licenses, a director at the forestry ministry said.
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Russian pulp and paper market to revive not earlier than in 2010 According to intermediate results, Russian timber industry remains unprofitable – in the first half of
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Chile Copec 9-month profit down 43.3 pct yr/yrSANTIAGO, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Chilean industrial conglomerate Copec COP.SN said on Friday its nine-month profit tumbled 43.3 percent from a year ago, but its businesses were recovering from the worst of the global financial crisis.
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Tough times for the forest products industry!A report published Tuesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that the Canadian forest and paper industry lost $632 million in the third quarter of 2009, exceeding the $552 million reported in the same quarter of 2008.
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Sino-Forest Signs Long-term Master Agreement to Acquire Trees in Guizhou Province TORONTO, Jan. 28 /CNW/ - Sino-Forest Corporation (TSX: TRE) ("Sino-Forest"), a leading commercial forest plantation operator in China, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sino-Panel (China) Investments Limited has entered into a Master Agreement for the Purchase of Pine and Chinese Fir Plantation Forests (the "Guizhou Master Agreement") with Guizhou Sen Li Industry Company Limited ("Guizhou Sen Li"), which will act as the authorized agent for the original forest rights holders.
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US: South’s forest industry struggles through 09
Every sector in forest products in the South swooned in 2009, with sawmill production falling an industry-worst 21 percent on top of a 23 percent decline in 2008.
Pulp and paper mills were less hard-hit, an industry group reported.
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Statistics: Russian timber industry in 2009 According to the Ministry of Economic Development, fiberboard production output decreased by 26.1%, of chipboards – by 20.7%, plywood – by 18.7%, sawn timber 12.2%, door and window units – by 33.4 and 46.1% respectively.
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Canada: Forestry industry must diversify, capitalize on demand for green energyMONTREAL - The federal government can help rescue Canada's battered forestry industry and thousands of jobs by providing $1.5 billion in funds to encourage diversification to new eco-friendly uses such as biochemicals and bio energy, says a new study released Monday.
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Wood supply crucial for Northern forest industry, says mill Wood supply is a more immediate issue for the Northern Ontario forest industry than moving to biomass renewable energy, says one Northern player.
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Issue date: Thursday, 18 February 2010 Big hopes for Russian timber industry recovery Demand and production declining in the woodworking industry reached the lowest point. However, with this stage passed, manufacturers and authorities are to invest more in modernization, construction and infrastructure in order to return back to the pre-crisis indicators.
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Russian State Statistics Service: Export 2009 According to the Russian State Statistics Service, in 2009 export volume of timber and pulp and paper products from Russia decreased by 15.4%, which can be explained by significant decline in supplied volume of unprocessed timber.
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The South African Forestry Sector: an overviewThe South African paper, pulp and board industry has consistently increased exports of paper and board and maintained imports at similar levels for the past three years, despite facing a number of challenges, says Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (Pamsa) executive director
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Chile’s wood products industry reconstructs: what does this mean for North American markets?
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Magnus Hall new Chairman of SkogsindustriernaApril 20 2010 Magnus Hall, CEO of Holmen, has been elected new Chairman of Skogsindustrierna, the Swedish Forest Industries Federation.
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Forestry's upturn may sow seeds of new setbackVANCOUVER (Reuters) - A recent run-up by Canadian forestry stocks has investors in the downtrodden sector basking in a warm glow, but that could fade as quickly as it appeared if the industry returns to its self-destructive tendencies.
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Debugging the beetle kill argument
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Renewable Electricity Plan concerns Forest IndustryForest 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).
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Komi to develop OSB production - SyktyvkarSafwood (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.
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Arkhangelsk region to continue realization of investment projects 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).
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Impact of the global forest industry on atmospheric greenhouse gasesThe 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, ci
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Karelia: OSB mill to be launched in 2012The 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.
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British Columbia's forestry job numbersIt 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
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Russian Wood Statistics: wood processing in the first half of 2010
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Export duties on roundwood: Russia vs. EUAccording 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.
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Brazilian timber output halves in 10 yearsTen-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.
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Ireland calls for timber to be included in offsetting schemeThe 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.
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Government of Canada Launches Investments in Forest Industry Transformation ProgramThe Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) program was launched today by the Government of Canada.
The $100-million program will help to expand opportunities for Canada’s forestry sector through the development of innovative projects and technologies.
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Natural Resources, launched the program today in Ottawa and made a call for proposals that could receive IFIT funding.
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30% wood harvest expansion projected for ChileChile’s forestry industry could increase wood production over 30% in the next fifteen years, as the sector significantly expands its land holdings, Hans Grosse, head of state forestry agency Instituto Forestal (Infor), said.
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China, Emerging Markets To Fuel Chile's Forestry IndustrySANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Increasing demand from China and other emerging Asian markets will drive Chile's forestry industry in coming years, said a panel of industry executives Tuesday.
Chile's forestry sector, which produces wood boards, plywood and pulp, accounts for 8% of global forestry exports. It is also the Andean nation's second-largest exporting industry, just behind mining, and contributes 3% of the country's gross domestic product.
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Arkhangelsk region to get new projectNovye Lesnye Technologies (New Timber Technologies, St. Petersburg) is to invest over RUR11.8 mln (€ 300 th.) in construction of a mill for advanced timber processing in the Arkhangelsk region.
The mill is to produce wooden boards and chipboards with annual capacity making up 250 th. cubic meters and 325 th. cubic meters respectively.
Besides, the mill will have a sawmilling facility (100 th. cubic meters per year) and glued log production (15 th. cubic meters per year).
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UNECE region recorded largest ever fall in wood consumptionIn 2009, the UNECE region (which includes Europe, North America and the CIS) experienced an 11.6% fall in consumption of wood and paper products, the largest year-on-year drop since the oil crisis of the 1970s. This is a key conclusion of the Forest Products Annual Market Review 2009-2010 jointly published by the UNECE and FAO earlier this month.
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B.C. forest industry’s losses may be at an end: conference boardVANCOUVER — The signs are glimmers of hope that British Columbia’s forestry-driven industries may be at the end of years of punishing losses and high unemployment, according to reports released Tuesday by the Conference Board of Canada.
Much of Canada’s wood-products sector has returned to profitability this year, the Conference Board said in its Canadian Industrial Profile-Summer 2010, published in collaboration with the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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Analysis Of Development Of Forestry Industry And Wood Processing Industry In China ProposalSince 1949, China has completed six national forest resources inventories. According to the result of the sixth forest resources inventory (1999-2003), there is 175 million hectares of forests, 13.618 billion of living trees accumulate, 12.456 billion cubic meters of forests accumulate, and 18.21% of forest coverage which is nearly 10% higher than 8.6% after the founding of new China. The forest area of China ranks the fifth in the world; the forests accumulate ranks the sixth in the world; the area of man-made forests is 53.2573 million hectares and ranks the first in the world.
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Bharatbook.com : Comprehensive analysis on Forestry and Wood Processing Industry in ChinaReport on the Analysis of Development of Forestry Industry and Wood Processing Industry in China
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Report On The Analysis Of Development Of Forestry Industry And Wood Processing Industry In China-Aarkstore EnterpriseThis report makes an in-depth analysis on the Development of Forestry Industry and Wood Processing Industry in China
Background of the Research
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Wood industry, the state has adopted a new machine which forestry development planNovember 3, 2009 was informed that the State Forestry Administration, the State Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, State Administration of Taxation have jointly issued the five departments of the “Forestry Industry Development Plan (2010-2012)”, as a gui
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Green Province Of Jiangsu Forestry Forestry Province TransfigurationForestry Bureau of Jiangsu Province has learned from the early 2003 provincial government proposed the building of “green Jiangsu” development strategy has been the rapid development of forestry industry in Jiangsu Province.
Key words: Forestry, Jiangsu province, Jiangsu province forestry
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Anhui Province Suzhou City forestry the first time five billion yuan of GDPYear of the Tiger Spring comes early in 1000 the village is busy planting trees. When the spring again blowing Suzhou earth, people were happy to find that piece of the green throughout the city, look exceptionally beautiful.
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To create a 10 billion yuan Hezhou Forestry IndustryMarch 28, Hezhou Gui Sunda Plate Co., Ltd. produce 100,000 cubic meters of plywood project goes into operation. Same day, the annual output of 200,000 cubic meters particleboard project started. Hezhou leader said: “These two forestry production and processing projects started, marking the Hezhou forestry industry chain is becoming longer and longer, to build a foundation for billions of forest industry.”
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Hubei Haman to Build the Country’s First Modern Forestry SenCentral China’s largest sheet processing bases the “Hubei Modern Forestry Science and Technology Industrial Park of Forest Industry of Haman,” was formally established. This is the first modern forestry, forestry technology industry park, Hubei Province Forestry Bureau to actively promote the development of modern forestry industry, and create forestry development, technological innovation platform for yet another strategic move.
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UNIBOARD(R) AND CALIFORNIA CLOSETS(R) ENTER INTO EXCLUSIVE SUPPLY AGREEMENT
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Recent Economic Indicators for the Wood Products IndustryNew numbers suggest growth in the second quarter was sluggish.
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China: Forest Industry will expand - wood importsThe forest industry in China is continuing its expansion, and with limited domestic timber resources, importation of logs and wood chips are at an all-time high, especially as tight supply of domestic logs has increased local log prices to new highs.
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China MDF soaring as rest of the World slowsGlobal MDF capacity reached 72.9 million m3 in 2009 - an increase of 4.0 million m3 (+5.8%) over 2008. In 2009, China remains the world’s largest MDF-producing country at 32.5 million m3 - that’s 45% of world capacity!
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New issue of MOST Digest - Russian Timber Industry
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Learn about the Canadian Wood Fibre CentreHave you heard of the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre?
The mission of the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre is to create innovative knowledge to expand the economic opportunities for the forest sector to benefit from Canadian wood fibre.
Background
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Growth is back in Baltics, Poland and RussiaAfter some tough years, the economic crisis is over for the Baltic states, Poland and Russia, at least in terms of growth, according to Nordea´s Baltic Rim Outlook. Estonia's forthcoming accession of the euro underlines that a new era has begun for the Baltics. Exports have initially been th
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Karelia: RUR 20 mln to be invested in regional economy In 2011 Karelia’s Ministry of Economic Development plans to attract about 20 bln rubles of state and private investments to the regional economy, what corresponds to the rates of 2010.
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Forestry industry fears for jobs if 100m trees are not plantedSCOTLAND'S forests are in deep decline, threatening jobs and carbon-cutting targets, despite a Scottish Government pledge to plant 100 million new trees by 2015, industry experts have warned.
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Timber shortage in Kenya forces merchants to import commodityA chronic timber shortage has hit Kenya forcing the country to turn to expensive imports from neighboring countries.
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Cameroon Timber Tax Shows Problems Distributing REDD Payments To LocalsA new study finds a lack of transparency and corruption are reducing the impact of an initiative in Cameroon that channels a portion of national timber levies to rural forest communities. The study highlights the challenges of using a climate change pact to do something similar in forested regions around the world.
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Electricity prices in Sweden and Norway has increased sharply over the past weekOne of the major cost in forestry, pulp and basic industries are high electricity prices.
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Reduction of Russian timber duties after negotiations with WTO Russia will reduce its wood tariffs probably within a year. Russia has given this promise to reduce timber dutis in negatiations to the European Commission in exchange for membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) according to the Finnish TV Yle.
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Finland overhauls timber price information dataMore detailed price information, including data broken down by felling type, is to be published by Finland’s forest industry in a bid to help timber sales.
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EU - Russia deal could end log export tariffsReuters reported this week that Russia and the European Union struck a deal on Wednesday to phase out Russian export tariffs on raw materials.This is designed to smooth the way for Moscow’s entry into the WTO.
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Jukka Pahta appointed chief financial officer of PöyryFinland, 21 Dec 2010, Jukka Pahta, 44, has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Pöyry PLC. He will become a member of the Group Executive Committee of Pöyry PLC and report to Heikki Malinen, President and CEO of Pöyry PLC. Jukka Pahta will be based at the Pöyry headquarters in Vantaa, Finland. He will take over his new duties on 1 March 2011 at the latest.
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New Brunswick’s plan to strengthen & renew their forest industryThe provincial government of New Brunswick will be taking a series of actions to strengthen and renew the province’s forest industry.
An action plan has been drafted based on recommendations from a stakeholder summit held in November.
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Finish roundwood cartel led to losses over one billion Euros for private ownersFinnish Yle reports on a raw timber cartel, which operated in Finland between 1997-2004. Forest Research Institute Metla estimates the value of direct losses for private forest owners to over one billion Euros. The indirect losses reached a few hundred million Euros.
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Kazakhstan Kagazy PLC 2010, a year of consolidationAlmaty, Kazakhstan, Jan 4, 2011, - Kazakhstan Kagazy PLC (the "Group"/the "Company") has pleasure in announcing its unaudited results for the 9 months ended 30 September 2010 (the "Period").
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Government Investment in Forest Products Industry Continues to Pay Dividends
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Forestry Commission forecasts high demand for woodThe UK Forestry Commission is predicting that the increased use of wood-fuelled boilers could boost the industry.
According to the commission, there has been a growth of businesses and consumers opting to install eco-friendly biomass boilers to reduce fuel bills and lower emissions.
In particular, the Forestry Commission highlighted the recent decision of Bradford council to use biomass fuel at its City Hall and Ilkley Town Hall as part of commitment to reduce greenhouse gases by 20 per cent in 2010/11.
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UPM's associated company Pohjolan Voima is negotiating with the State of Finland and Ilmarinen on the transaction of Fin
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International Year of Forests launched
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Federal Forestry Agency has named Siberian OSB mill construction to be a high priority investment
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Forest industry in 2010: Production up 12% in Finland
Finland, Feb 11, 2011 - The forest industry of Finland recorded annual production increase of some 12% in 2010, but production volume did not yet rise to the level achieved in 2008.
Pulp and paper industry production was up about 11% and the wood products industry’s production increased by some 14%. The continuation of this positive development after industry companies have finished implementing structural changes will depend on whether or not domestic costs are kept in check.
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Arkhangelsk Region became the third for investment growth rate in the Northwestern Federal District
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Full list of companies accepting new wood supply in Ontario
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AbiBow Canada Inc., Thunder Bay
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Creating 50
Sustaining 160 |
221,000 conifer |
Capital Power Income L.P., Calstock
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Giving the imbalance in wood demand the chop
A new inquiry can find solutions to many Australian forestry industry problems.
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The investments in the timber industry complex of the Perm Territory to reach RUR 25 bln
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Timber industry complex of the Leningrad Region came out of a recession
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The results of the VIII Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum: solid investments will flow to Siberia
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Alberta’s forest products shipments went up 25% from 2009 to 2010
Total shipments of lumber, panelboard, pulp and paper manufactured by Alberta Forest Products Association-member companies for 2010 were up substantially over the previous year. Shipments increased from approximately $1.9 billion to $2.3 billion.
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B.C. may have trouble keeping up with the demand for their wood, due to low resources
British Columbia‘s forest sector has been cut back so severely in recent years that now that demand for their wood is surging, the companies are having a difficult time physically meeting the demand.
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IFC and NCASI Release Enhanced Version of the Forest Industry Carbon Assessment Tool (FICAT)
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The investments in the timber industry complex of Karelia doubled
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Arkhangelsk International Forestry Forum will take place in April, 6-8
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