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FAE’s new tooth

04 March 2024
With the new C/3/MAX tooth, FAE boosts the productivity, efficiency, and strength of its top-tier forestry mulchers with Bite Limiter technology. Source: Timberbiz The new C/3/MAX tooth is the ultra-strong alternative to the BL/MAX blade for high-end FAE forestry mulchers featuring Bi
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Growing trees in a test tube

04 March 2024
The Engine is a coworking and shared lab space located in Building 750 on MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where start-ups and technology entrepreneurs try to develop inventions that can tackle the world’s most challenging problems. Foray Bioscience, a company started by Ashl
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Positive results in electric truck operation in Sweden

04 March 2024
SCA’s electric timber truck continues to transport timber between Gimonäs timber terminal and Obbola paper mill outside Umeå, Sweden. It has now been in operation for more than 1.5 years. Source: Timberbiz Everything is working as intended, and we receive inquiries from haulage
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Ponsse to renew its operating model Australia and overseas

04 March 2024
The planned new global operating model aims to strengthen Ponsse’s long-term competitiveness, efficiency and enable even better customer service and aims to create an organisation that focuses on sales and service, including both its own operations and dealers in planned five market a
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WoodSolutions 2024 Mass Timber Study Tour 2024

04 March 2024
Timber expert Andrew Dunn will be leading a mass timber manufacturing and construction tour to Europe travelling from Austria to Germany, to visit pioneering factories, facilities and projects spotlighting CLT, glulam and other leading edge timber technologies. Source: Timberbiz As an
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Valmet global social responsibility program expanded

01 March 2024
Valmet expanded its global social responsibility program with several area-specific local projects promoting science, nature and equal opportunities in 2022. After a year of successful implementation, the program now continues through six local projects. Source: Timberbiz Social respo
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Conifer trees may get the chop in Scotland

01 March 2024
A report has called on ministers to scrap the huge subsidies and tax breaks given to conifer forests because they do too little to combat the climate crisis. The report from the Royal Society of Edinburgh said the tens of millions of pounds in subsidies given to the timber industry sh
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Pirelli on the F1 grid with FSC tyres

01 March 2024
Pirelli is the first company to produce a complete range of FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified tyres for motorsport. Starting from this year, all the tyres used in the FIA Formula One World Championship will be marked with the FSC logo. Source: Timberbiz This logo certifies th
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Small forestry mulcher with a big appetite

28 February 2024
SEPPI’s range of forestry mulchers for tractors and PTO tractors has been expanded to include a new forestry mulcher. SEPPI M mulchers already cover the maximum power for tractors in the highest power class. This time, the focus is on compact tractors with the aim of offering an effic
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Adidas under the Canopy to protect forests

28 February 2024
German sports brand Adidas has partnered with non-profit environmental organisation Canopy to ensure its textiles, paper and paper packaging are free of fibre sourced from climate-critical forests. Source: Timberbiz Adidas has committed to Canopy’s CanopyStyle and Pack4Good initiative
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