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Sake startup making it with wood

04 October 2023
In a world first, a Japanese research institute has developed a process for making sake from trees, with at least one startup aiming to commercialize its cedar-based product by 2025. Source: The Mainichi The Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute devised the manufacturing pro
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LEGO returns to wooden figures

04 October 2023
LEGO Group and design specialists Room Copenhagen are introducing a new range of products dedicated to fans who love a bit of LEGO nostalgia and playful interior design ­– wooden Lego. Source: Timberbiz The LEGO Originals Wooden Minifigure 853967 product was revealed at a unique LEGO
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The Sycamore Gap tree, the gap is wider

04 October 2023
On 28 September in Northumberland UK a tree was felled, and it has made the news internationally. This was the Sycamore Gap tree which was iconic as it grew in a natural dip in the landscape near Hexham and was as well known as a tree could be. Source: Timberbiz Initially a young man
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Turning timber into food

22 September 2023
ÄIO, set up in 2022, has created a way of producing fats and oils from industrial waste. According to co-founder Petri-Jaan Lahtvee what has been developed is very similar to brewing beer, where yeast is used to convert sugars from barley into alcohol, and hops are added for taste. So
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South America leads the world on tree planting but two species domintate

22 September 2023
South America is among the world’s leading regions in plantation forestry, with the second largest area of tree plantations globally, behind only Asia, concentrated in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. However, even though 15% of the world’s approximately 131 million hectares of t
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Goole choice for new tissue mill in UK

22 September 2023
Metsä Tissue announced that it has chosen Goole, East Riding in Yorkshire as the site for its planned new state-of-the-art tissue paper mill in the UK. This landmark investment of several hundreds of millions of pounds will deliver the largest tissue mill in the UK and significantly r
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Turning plant waste into medicine

22 September 2023
Nebraska researchers are converting plant wastes into antimicrobial agents that could help prevent pathogenic infections and death while significantly lowering the cost of antimicrobial treatments and being a boon to the bioeconomy. Source: Newswise Antibiotic resistance is a signific
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CTrees pioneering Land Use Change Alert (LUCA) system for global forest monitoring

22 September 2023
CTrees launched Land Use Change Alert (LUCA), the world’s first global radar-based forest disturbance alert system. Unique in its ability to cover all forest biomes, LUCA leverages data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel 1 radar satellite system to fill a critical gap in
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Da Vinci’s ‘Rule of Trees’ debunked by new study

22 September 2023
For centuries, inventor, scholar, and artist Leonardo da Vinci has been lauded for his precise, well-proportioned drawings and imaginative designs. He grasped gravity’s similarity to acceleration a century before Newton, and his artworks were sheer genius in their perspective an
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Bioproduct mill based on regenerative forestry principles

22 September 2023
Metsä Group’s Kemi bioproduct mill, which started up on 20 September 2023, will consume 7.6 million cubic metres of wood every year, representing an increase of 4.5 million cubic metres compared to the old mill. Of this additional volume, 3.5 million cubic metres will be procured from
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