. The latest economic data of the French timber industry is without a doubt unpleasing. The production of the French sawmills shrunk by 3 %. According to customs statistics in 2012 imports of softwood timber dropped 7

The biggest French wood industry association, FNB, raised an alarm signal aimed at the political scene and the media regarding the rising exports of roundwood to Asia

;    Exhibition stand: Hall 27 Stand C52 Topic: Brushing center The well known French company EGA presents a new flexible innovative brushing center that revolutionize the structural timber brushing process and improve the finishing of the wood for the construction mar

and degradation of the panel surface surfaces during the handling operations. Thanks to its dual-head 5-axis (above and below) combine with heavy duty transport system though high precision numerical clamping heads, the new CNC machining center ORION from the French company EGA

The state of the French softwood industry is deteriorating. The latest construction industry figures, which have recently dropped at the end of April 2012, are not encouraging at all

RusForest AB announced preliminary first quarter 2013 production results for its core operations in Arkhangelsk, Boguchany and Magistralny. RusForest increased harvesting of sawlogs by 69 percent from 145,937 cubic meters in the first quarter of 2012 to 245,976 cubi

;The wheels have individual pendulum arms and levelling. They can go over 90-centimetre-high obstacles with no sideways tilt,” Lennartsson says. He explains that using solid rubber also has many special advantages in the forest environment. &ldquo

. In June, the Pfleiderer plant in Nidda will accrue. So far, effects are regional. In the southwest and in the northern region of Bavaria and in Thuringia, a surplus in sawdust is noticeable

During the first half of 2010, there were five provinces that imported more than one million cu.m of logs each: Jiangsu Province, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Heilongjiang Province, Shandong Province and Shanghai Municipality

A discussion on tracking and monitoring the origin and movement of forest products and the relationship between entrepreneurs and the various Brazilian inspection agencies was recently arranged by the Pará

;requires significant capital investment and is not strategically located near the main market for its products”. Recently, RusForest sold non-core assets in the Ust-Ilimsk region in Eastern Siberia for US$ 2,6 million

In 2009, development on the French parquet market corresponds to the European trend: 20% less in production and 15% less in consumption. According to the association UFFEP combining between 60 and 70

The Greater Mekong sub region in Southeast Asia might lose one third of its forests in the next two decades if measures of protection won’t be taken, warns the WWF

The first national forest inventory in Brazil was conducted in the 1980s and the focus was on assessing timber stocks. A new inventory is planned and will be broader in scope encompassing sustainability

For the French Gascogne Group year 2010 was marked primarily from the sale of the distribution sector, which pumped 44.1 million euros into the cash box

) Council was launched in 1999.PEFC is a framework for the mutual recognition of credible national or regional forest certification schemes which have been developed to meet internationally recognised requirements for sustainable forest management

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