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Gibson pays the piper for illegal timber

09 August 2012
The US government has settled its legal case against the Gibson Guitar company over use of illegal timber from Madagascar in its instruments. Nashville-based Gibson, whose products are used by artists in every genre of music, will pay a US$300,000 ($284,000) fine and a US$50,000 ($47,
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Wooden compute?

09 August 2012
Employees at the MicroPro Company in Ireland, working in collaboration with colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM in Berlin, have engineered a wooden-frame computer with reduced environmental impacts. Source: Product Design & Development
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Euro rules preclude Thai timber

07 August 2012
The Thai timber and wood product industry will be hurt by the European Union's strict new regulations on timber imports according to the president of the Thai Parawood Association (TPA). The EU has introduced legislation banning the import of illegally felled timber. Source: The Bangk
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UK to promote forestry with new agency

07 August 2012
the UK, the Forestry Commission is on the hunt for new agencies to help as part of a landmark rethink of its communications work. The organisation is looking to bring in agencies to handle PR for the whole of England in a brief worth £750,000 overall. Source: PR Week (UK)
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Indonesia behind with certification

02 August 2012
Indonesia is urging its national timber industry to immediately verify their timber production. Director of Education on Processing and Marketing of Forest Products at the Forestry Ministry, Dwi Sudharto, said verification under the Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK) must be d
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Commercialization of shrub willow as bioenergy crop

02 August 2012
The commercialization of shrub willow as a bioenergy crop could be years closer, thanks to a $1.37 million grant that will allow Cornell researchers to take advantage of the newly mapped shrub willow genome to study hybrid vigor and yield. Source: R&D Mag (US)
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Nanoscience to benefit wood adhesives

31 July 2012
Research to improve wood adhesives through the use of nanotechnology earned Dr Joseph Jakes a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Jakes is a research materials engineer and his exploration of wood at the nanoscale has resulted in the development of
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PNG logging report damning

31 July 2012
Papua New Guinea's new government has been handed a report into an alleged giveaway of the country's tropical forests. The present caretaker prime minister, Mr Peter O'Neill, initiated a commission of inquiry into controversial forestry concessions granted over the previous decade whe
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Malaysia facilitates timber exports to Europe

26 July 2012
In a move to boost exports of Malaysian timber and construction products to Europe, the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) is working with the United Kingdom’s Trada Technology Ltd (TTL) as an approved testing laboratory. Malaysia recognizes that the only way to ensure its prod
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Asia Pulp & Paper achieves US and EU certification

26 July 2012
Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) announced that its production mills are achieving SVLK certification under Indonesia’s new Wood Legality Verification System in a major stride towards addressing requirements to supply to countries such as the US and those in the EU. Source: Lesprom
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