Russia won't increase export duties on timber in the next nine to twelve months. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the decision after negotiations with his Finnish counterpart on Wednesday. But other issues like the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline were not that easy to agree...
A new standard for carbon trading will help link forestry and
agriculture projects into a million-dollar market to help fight global
warming, backers said on Tuesday.
Under rules set by the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), projects
such as reducing the rate of tropical...
Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin made the following sensational statement at a meeting with his counterpart of Finland Matti Vanhanen held yesterday: Russia is ready to postpone the introduction of sharply increased export duties on timber raw materials, which was...
The Swedish forest industry foresees
weak demand for saw timber, equilibrium between supply and demand for
pulpwood and strong demand for energy wood.
Intermediate annual reports for the first nine months of the year are
mostly sad reading. The sawmill industry is in the worst situation...
In Finland wood is expected to increase as construction material when the global financial crisis is eventually abating.
Already
before the crisis construction in Europe did not meet demand. Strong
growth is expected when the business cycle takes an upward turn. The...
The negative period that has been
characterizing the industry since the beginning of the year — after
three years of constant growth — has accelerated during the third
quarter due to the global financial and economic crisis, the actual
relevance of which has been perceived since September...
Stora Enso is planning additional production curtailments in its Wood Products
business area through temporary mill closures, shift reductions, efficiency
measures and extended maintenance stoppages in Finland, Estonia and the Czech
Republic. The Group has already recently agreed similar...
In 2007 a record of 2.6 million cubic metres of wood were felled in
Denmark's forests. Despite of record level fellings, the quantity is
only half of the biological annual growth of 5 million cubic metres.
The felling exceeds the previous record from 2006 with 9 %...
A working group chaired by Mr Esko Aho, Finland's former Prime
Minister, presented in the end of September its report on forest
sector’s future. The working group believes that the forestry branch
will be able to renew itself and to create new preconditions for growth...
The Crocus Expo exhibition centre welcomed the HOLZHAUS exhibition organized by MVK International Exhibition Company, Russian Association of manufacturers and consumers of glued laminated timber, and supported by the Federal Agency for Construction, Housing and Public Utilities (Rosstroy) and...
