The negative trend of wood technology orders,
already recorded in the first quarter of the year 2008, worsened in the
April-June period. After 3 years of growth, the usual quarterly survey
shows that, as compared to the same period of 2007, orders from the
Italian market decreased by 17...
Georgia accused Russia on Sunday of deliberately starting a fire
which threatens to destroy a forest regarded by Georgians as a national
treasure.
Russia's Defence Ministry denied any involvement.
Georgia's Interior Ministry said Russian helicopter gunships swooped
over a region near the...
August 20-23, 2008Atlanta, GAThe largest woodworking technology trade show in the Western Hemisphere is held every other year at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA, and is ranked among the largest trade shows in the world. Recognized around the world as the...
Vietnamese
wood-product exports to the Japanese market will continue to rise if
domestic producers can cash in on the tastes of Japanese consumers in a
timely manner.According
to Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) experts, with an
annual growth rate of 4.8%, Vietnam is...
Sweden has the greatest share of renewable energy in all EU-countries, i.e. 43,3 %.
Industry
and electricity production are the biggest contributors to the share of
renewable energy, followed by district heating production and the
housing sector. The transport sector...
A couple from Bosnia spent an eternity covering their Volkswagen Beetle with small
oak pieces that look like fish scales, and replacing some parts with
carved wood equivalents.This Volkswagen Bettle is covered in more than 20,000 small pieces of handmade oak
which were glued to...
The disastrous floods that swept across Ukraine from
the Carpathian Mountains killing at least 30 individuals and destroying
thousands of kilometers of roads and riverbanks, homes and
infrastructure, and incurring an estimated $1.2 billion in damages, has
partially to do with rocks and...
Norway
has established a secretariat in order to help it facilitate the aims
of its chairmanship of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of
Forests in Europe (MCPFE) political forum, The Timber Industry Magazine
reported.Norway
plans to work heavily on climate, water and energy...
In the opinion of Presidential Secretariat
Head, the demonstration of extreme efforts on the elimination of the
[flood] aftermath does not cost anything, if the necessary measures
were not taken to avoid the tragedy.
Presidential Secretariat Head
Viktor Baloha stressed that at the...
Such an opinion was expressed by director of
the Kyiv ecology-cultural center Volodymyr Boreiko. According to him,
having lost over the previous 40 years a large part of forests, the
Ukrainian Carpathian mountains came to be unable to keep moisture. Water swiftly runs down...
