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UPM enlists Scouts and Guides in Finland to help with forestry

14 April 2023
UPM wants to better listen to and understand stakeholders’ expectations. But how to reach a younger audience and make the forestry company’s objectives better known among them? Source: Timberbiz With this in mind, UPM started a three-year co-operation with The Guides and S
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Tigercat’s dual winch skidder

12 April 2023
Tigercat’s new 612 dual winch skidder is specially designed to operate in selective harvesting applications, extracting high value timber in steep or sensitive terrain conditions. Source: Timberbiz The Tigercat 612 series skidder platform was created to manage the extraction function
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Forward motion for hydrogen machinery engines

12 April 2023
JCB’S £100 million ($186M) project to produce super-efficient hydrogen engines was recently given an international debut. A team of 150 engineers is working on the pioneering initiative to develop hydrogen combustion engines with more than 50 prototypes already manufactured at JCB’s U
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Hardwood trees in the US now grow for longer

12 April 2023
The growing period of hardwood forests in eastern North America has increased by an average of one month over the past century as temperatures have steadily risen, a new study has found. Source: Timberbiz The study by Ohio State University compared present-day observations of the time
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A Cat’s vision for the future

05 April 2023
Caterpillar’s new VisionLink provides an integrated full-fleet management solution for asset tracking to maximize machine uptime and optimize utilization. The platform’s refreshed intuitive interface helps customers efficiently manage their entire fleet, regardless of manufacturer. Im
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UPM sells all business operations in Russia

05 April 2023
UPM has sold all its business operations in Russia to Gungnir Wooden Products Trading and has completed withdrawal of its businesses from Russia by selling all its Russian operations. Source: Timberbiz The sale included the Chudovo plywood mill to Gungnir Wooden Products Trading. The
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New partnership guarantees wooden towers for onshore wind farms

05 April 2023
Modvion and RWE Renewables Sweden AB are entering a partnership to supply wooden towers to RWE’s future onshore wind farms. The goal with the partnership is to verify the wooden tower technology and prepare for RWE to equip future wind farms with wooden towers, once the towers are ava
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Short range remote control adds safety to handling jobs

31 March 2023
An advanced Short Range Remote Control solution designed by Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) and CE Engineering Solutions is delivering increased safety, visibility and flexibility. Source: Timberbiz Now offered on request on the EC250E, EC300E and EC350E excavators, the techno
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Tree rings are a combination of all that surrounds a tree

31 March 2023
Tree rings record annual growth and the environment in which the tree has lived now a new study by Cameron Lee and Matthew Dannenberg that employed machine learning shows that air masses surrounding the tree also make a significant impact. Source: Timberbiz Tree-ring widths depend on
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FSC withdraws remaining forest management certificates in Russia

31 March 2023
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) announced the withdrawal of the remaining forest management certificates in Russia by the respective certification bodies. This is due to the decision by Assurance Services International (ASI) to terminate its FSC assurance activities in Russia. So
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