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Metsa Group facilitates planting of 270 million seedlings

07 May 2021
Metsä Group and forest owners planted 270 million seedlings in Finnish forests between 2010 and 2020. This northern summer, the figure will increase by more than 35 million seedlings. Source: Timberbiz Metsä Group supplies forest owners with native tree species that occur naturally in
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Global wood chips trade at all time high

07 May 2021
Global trade of wood chips, which are mainly used by pulpmills, grew from about 21 million tons in 2009 to an all-time high of 35 million tons in 2018. Subsequently, trade declined for two consecutive years to reach just over 30 million tons in 2020. Significant investments in new pul
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New harvester head for eucalyptus trees

07 May 2021
Ponsse has launched a new debarking Ponsse H7 HD Euca harvester head for harvesting eucalyptus trees, it sits alongside the previously released H8 HD Euca. Source: Timberbiz “This new harvester head has been developed together with our customers, based on their feedback. We wanted to
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Midway and Climate Friendly’s strategic alliance improves marginal land

07 May 2021
Midway Tasmania and Climate Friendly, two leading service providers in their respective fields of forestry and carbon project development, have announced a strategic alliance that combines farm forestry with carbon farming. Source: Timberbiz The partnership model will provide services
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NZ turns to biofuels – a potential billion-dollar business

07 May 2021
Te Uru Rākau, the New Zealand Forest Service, is laying the foundations for a new biofuels industry, to turn forestry waste into a potential billion-dollar industry and working on a business case with help from global investment experts Indufor Asia Pacific. Source: Timberbiz “Establi
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Forestry Corp cuts contracts for harvest and haul

07 May 2021
After salvaging the equivalent of about 270 B-Double truckloads of timber every working day from fire-affected plantations over the past year, Forestry Corporation has taken the difficult step to reduce contracts for timber harvest and haulage and supply over the coming five years whi
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Gary Blackwood accuses Lindenmayer of blatant lies

07 May 2021
An ecologist who specialises in forest conservation has been accused of deliberately lying to a recent Senate public hearing. The State Member for Narracan Gary Blackwood told the Victorian Parliament on Thursday that Professor David Lindenmayer had “deliberately and blatantly lied” w
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Opal paper viability threatened by Vic Government forestry plan

07 May 2021
Opal Australian Paper’s operations are being undermined by short, medium and long-term threats to its hardwood timber supplies under the Andrews Government’s forestry plan, according to Narracan MP Gary Blackwood, the manufacturing union and the Government itself. Source: Philip Hopki
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Opinion: Nicholas Kristof – lessons on cooperation between tree huggers and loggers

07 May 2021
One of the most venomous battles in our polarized nation is the one that has unfolded between loggers and environmentalists in timber towns like this one in the snow-capped Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon. Yet, astonishingly, peace has broken out here. Loggers and tree-huggers who on
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Friday analysis: timber supply is a challenge all over the world

07 May 2021
The demand for timber for houses in particular is on fire. And it’s not just in Australia; it’s worldwide. In the United States prices have gone up 300% or 400%. The Canadian supply is going down fast. Source: Bruce Mitchell for Timberbiz In Australia sawmills have greatly increased p
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