Vietnam
has become the biggest furniture exporter in the Asia’s market,
according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The ministry was
quoting figures from the American Hardwood Export Council.The
export turnover of locally made wood products reached $2.5 billion in
2007 and may reach...
While the cost of construction in the
U.S. continues to climb, one building material – wood – remains a smart
investment for the savvy professional. According to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, over the last four years, steel products have doubled in
price and concrete products are up 35...
The dangerous bark beetle is swarming in Southern Sweden earlier
than normally. There is also a great risk of a second generation
swarming later in the summer.
Because
of the warm summer the beetle population swarmed early. The drought
made spruce more vulnerable to...
Russia will join the World Trade Organization (WTO) no sooner than it settles the timber-tarriff conflict with the EU, said EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn.
The duties imposed by Moscow contradict the agreement of EU and Russia, the commissioner announced in the air of Finland’s...
Norway has suffered one of the country's most disastrous forest
fires since the war. Extreme drought resulted in the destruction of
about 3.000 hectares of forest in the Froland county on the south coast.
15 helicopters and several hundred firemen...
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...
