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Brambles battles pallet shortage in US

18 August 2021
Australian transport and logistics giant Brambles had to combat a pallet shortage in its major market of the United States as high demand for groceries and other consumer staples in the stay-at-home economy injected another tricky factor into a volatile environment. Source: The Financ
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50 containers of Aussie bound timber abandoned in China

18 August 2021
Five hundred homes worth of timber destined for Melbourne has been abandoned at a Shanghai dock because a shipping company accepted a lucrative offer to divert course to Los Angeles. Source: The Age, The Hardware Journal The Master Builders Association of Victoria (MBAV) said 50 conta
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China’s largest wooden structure

16 August 2021
With the aim of revitalizing the agricultural area in the Chinese province of Sichuan, the Tianfu Agriculture Expo Park which has an exhibition area of around 75,000m2 is the largest wooden structure in China to date. The Hasslacher Group in cooperation with StructureCraft has supplie
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Komatsu’s new Umea factory to begin forestry machinery production

16 August 2021
Forest machine production is soon to begin at Komatsu Forest’s newly built factory outside Umeå in northern Sweden. Here, assembly will take place on a single production line, around which the flows of both materials and people are optimised and automated to ensure high product
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Wood waste could replace aluminium in chip packets

16 August 2021
Aluminium plays an important protective role in food packaging; however, it requires a lot of energy to produce and it can be difficult to recycle. Now a crucial discovery has been made by Jiaying Li, who is working with the Dutch Advanced Research Centre Chemical Building Blocks Cons
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Finnish monks turn to forestry lifeline to cope with virus

13 August 2021
The Orthodox monastery of Valamo in Finland usually receives around 160,000 visitors a year, many from Europe and Russia who come to experience the peaceful surroundings and expansive orthodox library, as well as the country’s largest whisky distillery. Sources: France24, AFP Bu
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Massive forestry staff shortages flagged in Cypus before fire storms

13 August 2021
A year before the recent catastrophic fire that burned nearly 55 square kilometres in the forest areas of Limassol and Larnaca and killed four people, employees at the forestry department wrote to President Nicos Anastasiades warning him about the risks, but received no response, acco
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ABB wins order to supply digital innovation to Indonesian paper mill

13 August 2021
RAK Mill, Indonesia has signed a new ABB contract as part of a digital transformation project to help achieve its highest ever production. ABB has won a first order for its recently launched Sheet Break Performance as part of a major digital transformation project at PT. Riau Andalan
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Ikea’s wooden hand, bound and gagged

11 August 2021
An Ikea store in Canada found a creative solution to prevent people from rearranging the store’s wooden model hands to flip people off. The product, called the “HANDSKALAD,” is about a foot tall. The wooden model hands are often used as decoration or to help artists learn how to draw
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Bureaucracy is crippling Ireland’s forest sector

11 August 2021
A new, simplified and efficient system must be developed to issue forestry licences in Ireland, according to Fianna Fáil TD, Jackie Cahill. The Tipperary TD believes that this would play an integral role in fighting climate change and reducing carbon emissions, particularly in light o
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