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Stora Enso CFO and Deputy CEO to leave

20 May 2024
Stora Enso’s Chief Financial Officer and Deputy CEO, Seppo Parvi, has decided to leave Stora Enso to assume a role with a company outside of the forest industry. He will leave Stora Enso during the fourth quarter of 2024. Source: Timberbiz “Since joining in 2014, Seppo Parvi has
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Responsible Wood takes to the stage in Paris

20 May 2024
In the heart of Paris, the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) Forest Forum 2024 convened the 56 PEFC national governing bodies to confront the pressing challenges of climate change in forest management. Source: Timberbiz Against the backdrop of a warming world,
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Pininfarina and Morgan add luxury with a wooden interior

17 May 2024
Famed designer Pininfarina and the Morgan Motor Company teamed up to design a new open top vehicle  – the Midsummer. It was created in recognition of the heyday of European barchetta designs, this is special – limited to just 50 examples. Source: Timberbiz Midsummer represents the sha
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Precision Forestry leverages advanced tech to optimize forest management

17 May 2024
In recent years, Precision Forestry has emerged as a transformative approach, leveraging advanced technologies to collect and utilize data, to optimize forest management practices for sustainability, efficiency, and productivity. Source: Timberbiz This data-driven approach enables for
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Ponsse and Sitowise explore AI for logging

17 May 2024
As part of Business Finland’s Veturi funding for forest machine manufacturer Ponsse, Sitowise is working with Ponsse to explore the potential of artificial intelligence for smarter planning and optimization of logging. Source: Timberbiz The aim of the project is to explore the u
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Experimental unmanned forestry machine

15 May 2024
The first autonomous logging machine rumbled down a Swedish forest path and scanned for stacked logs to transport. It then scooped them up with a crane and loaded them onto its trailer. A new study of the truck-size robot, called a forwarder, suggests it could help forest workers with
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Metsa divests all Russian assets

15 May 2024
Metsä Group has completed a transaction in which the ownership in the group’s Russian subsidiaries Metsä Svir LLC, Metsä Forest St. Petersburg LLC, Metsä Forest Podporozhye LLC and Metsä Board Rus LLC has transferred to VLP Group. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase p
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Building a biomass fuelled ship

15 May 2024
Japanese companies, NYK Line, NYK Bulk & Projects Carriers, Tsuneishi Shipbuilding and British renewable energy business, Drax have signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop both the world’s first biomass-fuelled ship (bioship) and the technology that could power i
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Demand for pruned logs from NZ is high

15 May 2024
International demand for pruned logs from New Zealand is the highest ever seen by a forest manager with 30 years of experience in the sector. Source: RNZ John Turkington owns John Turkington Forestry – a Manawatū company that plants, manages, harvests and markets radiata pine, says he
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CLT assessed against ballistic impacts

13 May 2024
Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholar Juliet Swinea and her SMART mentor, Pete Stynoski PhD, both individually accomplished researchers, have joined forces through the SMART Program to revolutionize the US Department of Defense (DoD) ballistic design st
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