The new Brazilian Minister of the
Environment has plans to use credit lines for Economic and Social
Development (BNDES) to modernize and increase efficiency of production
activities in the Amazon, said Portal Moveleiro. The production of
timber and vegetable oil products were identified...
Brazil’s
new environment minister Carlos Minc has called for the timber sector
to replicate a soya deal which bans purchases of soya from deforested
areas of the Amazon, The timber Industry Magazine reported. Mr Minc’s
comments came as he announced a one-year extension to the...
The MDF industry has developed rapidly
over the last twenty years in China, making important contributions to
development of the national economy and improvement of people’s living
standard. China’s MDF industry began in the 1970s, with outputs
eventually increasing sharply in the 1990s....
Rising raw materials and energy costs drew profit warnings from the
world's top paper and packaging firms Stora Enso Oyj, UPM-Kymmene, and
Huhtamaki on Wednesday, sending shares in all three tumbling.
Stora Enso said its second-quarter operating profit would halve from a
year ago,...
Plans to use a state-of-the-art camera onboard a satellite to monitor deforestation levels in Africa's Congo Basin have been unveiled.The high resolution RALCam3 camera, designed and built by UK scientists, will provide the first detailed view of the area's rate of forest cover loss.The...
The forest industry managed to purchase 2 million cubic metres of timber from private forest holders in May. The amount increased by a fifth from April, but purchase volumes were still only half of the level achieved in May 2007.This year’s January-May aggregate purchase volume, 8.2 million...
The annual meeting of the Norwegian Forest Owners' Federation on 4
June decided to present a resolution to the Norwegian Government
requesting better framework conditions for producing bioenergy.
The Government's target of producing 14 TWh new bioenergy is positive
and...
A more market oriented approach in the forest industry is the way to get out of the present crisis.
This was the message of Mr Mikael Selling, partner and one of the
founders of the company Opticom International Research, when he gave a
speech in PricewaterhouseCoopers forest industry...
Finland’s forest resources are sufficient to allow felling volumes in
small-scale private forests to increase to above 60 million cubic
metres.In recent years, the forest
industry’s annual roundwood purchases from small-scale private forest
owners have amounted to about 45 million cubic...
This spring family forest owners will plant a total of 160 million
saplings in Finnish forests. The family forest area concerned will be
almost 85,000 hectares.
Only domestic
species, i.e. spruce, pine and birch, will be used in regeneration,
spruce being the most...
