AbitibiBowater announced today that it will change the company name to Resolute Forest Products as of November 7, 2011.
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ForestTalk |
13 years 1 month ago
TTJ Online |
13 years 1 month ago
EU imports of Russian plywood surged in the first half of 2011, according to the latest market report from the International Tropical Timber Organisation. Russian hardwood plywood imports reached 416,000m³ in the first half, up 23% on the 340,000m³ shipped a year ago. The birch plywood imports made...
GoForWood |
13 years 1 month ago
Lumber shipments from Canada alone could reach 1.2 billion dollars this year. The North American share of log and lumber import volumes to China has increased from four percent in 2005 to 18 percent in 2010. The US and Canada have been exporting record volumes of logs and lumber to China in 2011....
UNECE |
13 years 1 month ago
If no major policies or strategies are changed in the forest sector and trends outside it follow the lines described by the IPCC B2 scenario, consumption of forest products and wood energy will grow steadily and wood supply will expand to meet this demand (see Figure 24). All components of supply...
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PaperIndex Times |
13 years 1 month ago
Austria, Sep 21, 2011 - International technology Group ANDRITZ has signed a contract to acquire NSC Group’s nonwoven division encompassing its affiliates Asselin-Thibeau (Elbeuf, France) and NSC Wuxi (Wuxi, China). The acquired companies have approximately 200 employees and generate aggregate...
Vancouver Sun |
13 years 2 months ago
Canadians are coming to recognize that the balance of power in the international economy is shifting inexorably toward Asia. Already home to three-fifths of humanity, the next two decades will see Asia grow to account for half or more of global output. In recent years, much attention has been...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 2 months ago
Finland, Sep 6, 2011 - Metsä-Botnia, part of Metsäliitto Group, is participating in a feasibility study with energy companies Gasum and Helsingin Energia into constructing a biorefinery for biogas production in Joutseno, southeastern Finland. If realised, the biorefinery would produce biogas from...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 2 months ago
Finland, Sep 5, 2011 - Pöyry has released an index for analyzing the environmental sustainability of pulp and paper mills. "In many companies sustainability is connected to the company principles and needs to be communicated to various stakeholders. Currently there are no standards available that...
ForestCarbon Asia |
13 years 2 months ago
Climate change mitigation measures may soon begin to impact trade in wood products in two important ways. There is a possibility of introduction of Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA) by some developed countries on imports from developing countries to discourage the shift of their industrial production...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 2 months ago
EDERAL WAY, Wash., USA, Sep 13, 2011 - Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) today announced that it has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, which tracks companies in terms of their economic, environmental and social performance. Weyerhaeuser is one of only eight building materials...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 2 months ago
FINLAND, Sep 1, 2011 Pöyry's Industry Business Group has been awarded services contract by Suzano Papel e Celulose for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services for the Balance of Plant (BOP), and the Owners' Engineering services during the project implementation. The...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 2 months ago
Portugal, Aug 31, 2011, The Portucel Soporcel is exhibiting again at the 47th Maputo International Trade Fair (FACIM), the largest trade event with an international dimension in Mozambique.
Paperindex Times |
13 years 2 months ago
Tasmania, Australia, Aug 18, 2011 - Gunns Limited Managing Director, Mr Greg L'Estrange, today welcomed the Tasmanian Government's decision to appoint a probity auditor to review Gunns' contracts but sought assurances that the process would be expedited to end the onerous uncertainty the decision...
Timber Community |
13 years 2 months ago
The total stocks of paper indicates that mass market have faced a major price correction. Analyst comments from the Newsagency Direkt is refered in an in the Swedish business magazine Dagens Industri. The magazine continues reporting from Paper Products Council, RISI and Foex. Spot prices on NBSK...
International Forest Industries |
13 years 2 months ago
In January 2012, HewSaw will deliver a HewSaw SL250 TRIO sawing line to Bombala in New South Wales on the southeast coast of Australia. The agreement was signed on 29th April 2011. The construction work will begin in August 2011, and the project is scheduled to finish in December 2012. The delivery...
The Global Post |
13 years 3 months ago
BANGKOK, Thailand — Is your coffee table stamped “Made in Vietnam”? If so, there’s a decent chance it was once a tree in the dwindling jungles of Laos, sawn down illegally by a timber syndicate and smuggled into Vietnam for processing. Those are the findings of the London-based Environmental...
International Forest Industries |
13 years 3 months ago
According to the latest import statistics from China Customs, Canadian lumber shipments to China (almost all from B.C.) increased by a whopping 97% in the first six months of 2011 over the same period in 2010. Chinese softwood lumber imports from Canada totaled 3.14 million m3 for the first six...
13 years 3 months ago
Industrial timber use has provided timber revenue that has helped make timber supply and demand more sustainable in the leading timber producing regions of the world. Sustainable development im-plies not consuming more resources today than we can replace tomorrow, but sustainable forest man-agement...
Paperindex Times |
13 years 3 months ago
On 2 August 2011, the ceremony of laying a foundation stone for the construction of a new modified fibres processing facility took place in the premises of Weyerhaeuser Poland Company located at the MASZYNOWA Industrial and Technology Park. The foundation act of commencing construction works was...
World Stage Group |
13 years 3 months ago
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will provide a $6 million loan and advisory services to veneer and plywood producer SLV Bolivia to support a business model that sources wood from sustainably managed natural forests and strengthens indigenous community enterprises.