The project will get funding of 175 000 euros from South-Karelia - Russia ENPI programme. ENPI (European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument) -programme is financed by EU, the Republic of Finland and the Russian Federation. One of the aims during the project is to find a suitable form for...
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The Miramichi region of New Brunswick was hit hard when the forestry sector collapsed. For a time last year, there wasn’t a single mill left operating on the Miramichi. Here is the current state of the Miramichi mills: UPM-Kymmene mill This was Miramichi’s biggest mill operation. UPM-...
The first Swedish woodworking company in the East Siberia OOO "Rusforest-Magistralny" will be launched by RusForest group of companies in the first half of June in Magistralny village of Kazachinsko-Lensky District of Irkutsk Region. The rated output of the plant is projected at 150 tsnd cu m of...
JAKARTA (AFP) – Greenpeace on Wednesday accused Mattel, the US maker of Barbie dolls, of contributing to the wanton destruction of carbon-rich Indonesian forests and habitats of endangered species like Sumatran tigers. The environmental group said packaging used in Barbie and Ken boxes...
Dear Editor, Jamaican Customs opened a shipping container in mid-March and discovered 122kg of cocaine in bags with a consignment of 130 logs. The Guyana Forestry Commission admitted knowledge of this shipment, apparently associated with a State Forest Permission assigned to Aroaima Forest...
Governments will today be called on to help fund tropical forested countries design and implement sustainable forest management plans, as a major new report highlights that despite increased global efforts, less than 10 per cent of land which countries plan to maintain as tropical forest is being...
The price growth took place in January and March 2011, while in February the prices decreased. The average price for chip-boards grew by 25.4 % in the first quarter of 2011 as compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The most significant was the increase in the average price for...
The credits will be used to create a new sawmilling production at the territory of the plant and to implement the project «The upgrading of the woodworking facilities and the creation of forestry complexes». The payment guarantor on credits for the banks shall be OJSC Solombala Pulp-and-Paper...
Wood costs for the global pulp industry have risen 17 per cent in the past two years, according to market reports. Global market pulp production increased by seven per cent in 2010, which, in turn, boosted demand for wood raw material and pushed up prices for wood chips and pulp logs in most...
BOGOR, Indonesia (30 May, 2011)_The recently signed Presidential Instruction to impose a 2-year moratorium on forest conversion in Indonesia is a positive and long awaited development that is expected to help preserve the country’s rich forest resources. At the same time, however, questions...
Global demand for softwood lumber increased by about 18 percent in 2010. This came after a year when wood consumption worldwide was the lowest it had been in almost 50 years. This upward trend in consumption has continued thus far in 2011, with total volume consumed being more than 20 percent...
Paper and packaging group Mondi remained confident that the company would maintain an acceptable broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) rating following the demerger and the separate listing of Mondi Packaging South Africa (MPSA) as Mpact on the JSE, group corporate affairs manager Lora...
Recently launched, the Forest Products Price Information Portal offers various users ease in searching for information on forest products prices, specifically in Europe, but also worldwide. Users can search by product category (industrial roundwood, pulp and paper, sawnwood, wood energy, wood...
Montreal, Canada, May 26, 2011 – Forest products industry CEOs from around the world see an important opportunity ahead as a more competitive and significantly transformed industry emerges from the recent global economic downturn. This assessment came at the conclusion of International Council of...
The private investments to the timber industry complex of the Perm Territory up to 2014 will amount to 25 bln rubles. This money will be raised owing to the implementation of priority investment projects in the sphere of forest exploitation in such companies as OOO "Capital-3", JSC...
Danske Bank writes in their latest newsletter about the price of timber. They write that timber prices was depressed during the last two quarters, while timber prices have not fallen to the same extent. They note that there are currently very few mills that reports black numbers. From the time...