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Metsa paper and packaging centre for Finland

11 June 2019
Metsä Board – part of the Metsa Group will establish a Paperboard and Packaging Excellence Centre in Äänekoski, Finland. The new centre will combine packaging design and R&D excellence under the same roof to be able to boost the development of new paperboard and packaging solution
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SkogsElmia 2019

11 June 2019
When the Nordic region’s biggest forestry fair SkogsElmia finished for 2019 there was a positive mood among exhibitors and visitors. The theme of this year’s fair was the forest ownership of the future. More than 300 exhibitors from 21 countries assembled and a total of 20,438 visitor
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Stora Enso to convert paper mill to packaging production

05 June 2019
Stora Enso will invest approximately EUR 350 million to convert its Oulu paper mill in Finland into packaging production. The investment, made due to a decline in paper use, includes converting paper machine 7 into high-quality virgin-fibre-based kraftliner production, and the closure
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Euro poll shows general agreement on deforestation

05 June 2019
Public opinion may be splintered across other issues but stopping deforestation is something everyone seems to agree upon. A poll carried out in April 2019 by YouGov and commissioned by the Environmental Investigation Agency, Fern, Greenpeace and WWF demonstrated that no matter which
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Exhibitors rush to book for Swedish Forestry Expo

05 June 2019
Just five months after the launch, and with two years left to Swedish Forestry Expo 2021, most of the exhibition area at the Solvalla arena is now already booked. The exhibitors are companies with products for the large-scale forestry industry. Source: Timberbiz The fair, in June, wil
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Time for Trees campaign to plant 100 million trees

04 June 2019
A ground-breaking initiative to plant 100 million trees around the world has been launched from the United States to benefit the planet’s health and sustainability. The Time for Trees campaign has been launched by The Arbor Day Foundation, which is the largest US-based non-profit orga
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Logset launches smaller hybrid harvester

04 June 2019
Logset has launched a new smaller hybrid harvester: the Logset 8H GTE Hybrid. It is the company´s second hybrid harvester model after the world´s biggest wheel-based harvester, the Logset 12H GTE Hybrid, was successfully launched in 2016. Source: Timberbiz “When we launched the first
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Ligna 2019 trends and innovations

04 June 2019
Smart, future proof solutions were at the top of the agenda this year at the five-day Ligna 2019 expo. And it was made clear at this is world-leading trade fair for woodworking and wood processing plant, machinery and tools that technology users are now “getting smart” with regard to
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Sweden opens new CLT production facility

30 May 2019
Stora Enso’s investment in a new production facility for cross laminated timber (CLT) at the Gruvön sawmill in Sweden has cost EUR 45 million and has proceeded according to plan from the investment decision made in July 2017. The investment has led to 60 new employees for the mill. So
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Komatsu Forestry provides quick equipment oil analysis

30 May 2019
Komatsu Forestry’s Komatsu Oil Wear Analysis (KOWA) is now the official forestry fluid analysis provider for North America. KOWA serves its North American customers through partnerships with oil analysis laboratories, Fluid Life and Bureau Veritas. Source: Timberbiz KOWA has been an e
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