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NY’s DEC celebrates 11 years of certification

05 February 2019
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced that DEC has achieved 11 consecutive years of dual forest certification for more than 780,000 acres of State Forests under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and Forest Stewardship
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New Gen Husqvarna chainsaws

05 February 2019
Husqvarna has released the next generation of 50cc chainsaws for professional loggers and arborists, the Husqvarna 550 XP Mark II and the 545 Mark II. The chainsaws are redesigned from scratch, resulting in a new level of cutting capacity, maneuverability and endurance, making them id
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Independent review shows risk fraud for Wales timber agency

05 February 2019
An independent review into how Natural Resources Wales handled timber contracts has found “serious failings”. Auditors Grant Thornton found problems were so bad they “heightened exposure to the risk of fraud”.  The agency – responsible for publicly-owned
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TRADA University Challenge in timber

31 January 2019
On 8-9 February, 60 UK students will gather in Sheffield for a challenge to design healthy student accommodation predominantly from timber. The TRADA University Challenge brings 60 students from multiple disciplines and universities together at the University of Sheffield’s Diamond Bu
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Sweden’s increases on delivery timber prices

31 January 2019
The increase of delivery prices in Sweden was larger in 2018 than it has been for several years, according to new statistics from the Swedish Forest Agency. Both sawlog and pulpwood prices increased in the whole country during 2018. Source: Timberbiz Delivery purchase is a method whic
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UK government publishes regs for trade in timber post Brexit

31 January 2019
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs within the British Government issued a press release on the regulations which will apply to foreign trade in timber if no agreement is reached on the withdrawal from the EU scheduled for 29 March. Source: Euwid According to the
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Sweetwoods for biomaterials on an industrial scale

29 January 2019
Sweetwoods a project made up of nine European companies, is to begin producing wood-based biomaterials for the first time on an industrial scale. This unique €43 million bio-economy project, funded by the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) is now underway, with its key ai
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Forestry must seize climate change opportunity

29 January 2019
The UK Government will not meet its climate change targets without a significant increase in tree planting and far greater use of timber in construction. That was the clear message from Lord Deben, Chair of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), when he addressed the All-Party Parliam
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Tokyo Olympic pavilion to be engineered wood

29 January 2019
Finland will build a pavilion made of engineered wood from Finnish forestry giant Metsa Group as the country’s business, sporting and marketing centre during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Metsa pavilion, which will be made of Kerto LVL products, will be located at the Finnish Embassy i
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Tree Farm Token mahogany project for Dominican Republic

24 January 2019
Dominican company Tree Farm Token has launched an international investment project to develop, manage and commercialize a plantation of 2,600,000 mahogany trees on a 2000-hectare site in the Dominican Republic. Source: Timberbiz Currently on its initial fundraising phase, the Tree Far
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