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Vietnam forestry exports hit $5b in six months

17 August 2020
Vietnamese export revenue of forestry products hit over US$5.3 billion in the first six months of 2020, up 2.7% over the same period last year, reported the Vietnam Administration of Forestry. Source: Timberbiz The administration predicted that in the whole year, total exports of the
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Blackhawk down – to work

17 August 2020
Fecon has released its new Blackhawk knife-tool mulching head, which quickly and efficiently shreds standing vegetation and processes material on the ground.  Designed specifically as a knife tool mulcher, every aspect of the including rotor diameter and size, ratio of knifes to rotor
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Morbark announces new group leader

14 August 2020
Morbark, a leading manufacturer of equipment used in forestry, recycling, tree care, landscaping, sawmill, and biomass markets, has announced the appointment of Bradley (Brad) Boehler as the successor to current Vice President of Alamo Group’s Forestry and Tree Care Business Unit and
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US to lift ban on logging large diameter trees

14 August 2020
An environmental analysis published Tuesday by the US Forest Service recommends lifting a 25-year-old ban on logging large trees across six national forests in Central and Eastern Oregon. Source: Timberbiz The rule, which prohibits cutting any trees larger than 53.3cm in diameter, is
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Skating into a new design

12 August 2020
Brothers Adrian and Martinus Pool are the artists behind the Canadian design studio Adrian Martinus. Together, they give discarded skateboards a second chance at life by repurposing them as sustainable home decor. Source: My Modern Met Some of the decks become hexagon-shaped stud earr
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Operating costs crippling forestry industry in British Columbia

12 August 2020
As governments look to kick-start economies stalled by pandemic restrictions, natural resource sectors say they are in a good position to put British Columbians to work. BC’s forestry sector could be one of them, especially given a recent spike in softwood lumber prices, but the indus
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Vietnam forests bounce back from the impacts of war

12 August 2020
Bouncing back from the impact of war involves not only rethinking and reshaping policies to repair social, cultural and economic infrastructures, but requires concerted efforts to restore damaged biodiversity and degraded landscapes. Source: Timberbiz During the Vietnam War (1955-1975
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Barking mad bakeries in Finland

10 August 2020
Each morning at the Ämmän Leipä bakery in Kainuu, eastern Finland, bakers bustle around preparing the bread for the day. Flour is sifted and dough is kneaded to make customer favourites like maalaisleipä (sourdough) and rieska (Finnish flatbread). But for one product there’s an unlike
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Katerra emerges as a leader in American CLT manufacture

10 August 2020
Katerra in North American has a CLT manufacturing facility with capacity to produce 185,000 cubic metres annually, the largest in North American timber. Katerra also offers mass timber design, engineering, and construction services, in addition to material production and distribution.
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Harvard study shows accelerated rates for forest carbon capture

10 August 2020
Climate change has increased the productivity of forests, according to a new study that synthesizes hundreds of thousands of carbon observations collected over the last quarter century at the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site, one of the most intensively studied forest
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