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RUNA | 12 years 9 months ago

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...

Globe News 24 | 12 years 9 months ago

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...

RUNA | 12 years 9 months ago

The Sakha Republic had signed several documents on cooperation with China focusing mainly on timber extraction and processing but the two sides were also discussing joint oil and gas exploration projects according to China Daily last week. Yegor Borisov said the focus of these documents was...

PaperIndex Times | 12 years 9 months ago

Finland, Jun 8, 2011 - The forest industry purchased 2 million cubic metres of timber from private forests in May. The volume more than doubled from April. All timber grades are in demand, but there's a particular need for more sawlogs, which are needed to keep sawmills up and running.

Kaieteur News Online | 12 years 9 months ago

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...

Business Green | 12 years 9 months ago

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...

RUNA | 12 years 9 months ago

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...

RUNA | 12 years 9 months ago

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...

Greenwood Management | 12 years 9 months ago

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...

CIFOR | 12 years 9 months ago

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...

Engineering News | 12 years 9 months ago

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...

EFI | 12 years 10 months ago

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...

RUNA | 12 years 10 months ago

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...

Paperindex Times | 12 years 10 months ago

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...

RUNA | 12 years 10 months ago

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...

International Forest Industries | 12 years 10 months ago

The demand for some types of paper, like newsprint and other printing and writing paper will decrease in the next decade but the many other uses for wood fibre will mean dramatic increases in global demand overall, according to a new report from PwC.

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