Record lumber prices can’t last in the US
24 May 2018
Lumber prices have rallied more than 30% this year to reach their highest level on record, as US duties on imports of the commodity from Canada have contributed to tighter supplies and soaring home-construction costs. Source: Market Watch But analysts are growing wary of tall timber p
Continue Reading →Negative emissions power station burns wood
24 May 2018
The Drax power station, Britain’s largest CO2 emitter, is launching a trial of “negative emissions” technology. Source: Quartz Drax has six power-generating units. Until 2013, they all burned coal but three of them have since been converted to burn wood. The switch-up came after the U
Continue Reading →Artificial Intelligence to predict at risk trees
22 May 2018
Europe loses as many trees to storms each year as Poland produces in timber. Until now, the models for predicting which trees are at risk have not been good enough. Source: Independent UK We already appear to be seeing more frequent and intense windstorms. It’s not only commuters and
Continue Reading →Wooden shoes but not clogs
22 May 2018
San Francisco brand Allbirds has debuted a new pair of shoes made from from eucalyptus trees. Source: Forbes After knocking out a success with their beloved wool shoes, the brand came back with another eco-friendly option. But is it really eco-friendly and how does this shoe stack up
Continue Reading →Greenpeace truce with Sinarmas ends
22 May 2018
Greenpeace has ended a five-year truce with one of the world’s largest paper companies, accusing it of cutting down tropical forests in Indonesia during the entire time the two were cooperating on conservation. Source: AP News The recent announcement abruptly ends a landmark 2013 agre
Continue Reading →CLT blasted by US Air Force
16 May 2018
Wood Products Council, in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Lab and Softwood Lumber Board, conducted a second series of blast tests on three existing two-storey, single-bay cross-laminated timber (CLT) structures at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, USA. Source
Continue Reading →China and CEE countries work closer on forestry
16 May 2018
China and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries are willing to further deepen their cooperation in the area of forestry and work together on preventing negative effects of climate change, participants of the 2nd High Level Meeting of the Coordination Mechanism for Cooperation i
Continue Reading →Wood made stronger than steel
16 May 2018
Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have managed to produce a bio-based material based on wood that supposedly surpasses the strength of all known bio-based materials, fabricated or natural, including spider silk. Source: Wired UK This new lightweight materia
Continue Reading →Sawmill Sid’s Tree and Wood Recovery Centre
15 May 2018
Sidney Gendron runs Sawmill Sid, a family-run sawmill that collects felled and diseased trees at its Tree and Wood Recovery Centre in Mississaug, Canada. Source: CBC Canada Once processed, downed trees can be repurposed as furniture, art pieces or materials for housing and constructio
Continue Reading →Polish protestors acquitted
15 May 2018
A court in eastern Poland has acquitted environmentalists who had blocked government-ordered logging in one of Europe’s last pristine forests that has been condemned by the European Union. Source: ABC News Last June, the activists chained themselves to heavy equipment, thus bloc
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