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On 15 April, the European Council adopted a set of conclusions on the progress achieved in the implementation of the EU Forest Strategy and on a new strategic framework for forests. The conclusions follow the publication of a Commission report in December 2018, which reviewed the role played by the strategy in its first five years of life...... [more...]
Smart factories, digital integration and customer-centric manufacturing. These are the trends and themes currently shaping the global wood industry and its No. 1 technology hub, LIGNA, the world´s leading trade show for woodworking and wood processing plant, machinery and tools. One the big focus themes of LIGNA 2019, which runs from 27 to 31 May in Hannover, Germany, is "Integrated Woodworking Technologies – Customized Solutions"...... [more...]
In February 2019 compared with January 2019, seasonally adjusted production in the construction sector increased by 3.0% in the euro area (EA19) and by 2.3% in the EU28, according to first estimates from Eurostat...... [more...]
The Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) and ATIBT’s Fair & Precious (F&P) branding campaign are to collaborate in communications and marketing... [more...]
Sarawak timber companies are seeing margins decline because of higher production costs of logging and the introduction of new tax structures in the timber sector... [more...]
Swedish wood products company Setra has reported an operating profit of SEK 83 million for the 1Q/2019. Net sales totalled SEK 1,128 million... [more...]
The UK and Indonesia have signed an agreement committing the former to continued recognition of FLEGT licences after Brexit. The UK Department for Environment (Defra) confirmed the arrangement on its twitter page on March 29...... [more...]
BSc Tommi Ekman, 44, has been appointed Logset Oy´s CEO and will start in his new position in late 2019. Ekman comes to Logset from John Deere Forestry Oy, where he has worked as General Manager, Marketing & Order Fulfillment. Ekman has 19 years of experience from different ...... [more...]
Despite the European legislation and its Timber Regulation (EUTR) that is supposed to moralize commercial practices, the teak market remains strongly suspected of illegality. We are talking here about natural teak, that still comes from forests located in the most famous production basin in the world: Burma or Myanmar.... [ more...]
