The Malaysian timber exporters now focuses on the emerging trend in the timber market. The government takes steps to ensure development in the timber industry.
Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok says, the Malaysian timber exporters have to be conscious of the rising demand in major markets for legal timber and comply to new rules taking appropriate steps. The local timber industry will regularly be kept informed on the latest development in timber trade rules, by the government. This keeps the local timber-based business community at an advantage..jpg)
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Athena Sustainable Materials Institute at its Annual General Meeting is holding a webinar on June 6, 2012. The webinar will have Francesca Desmarais of Architecture 2030 as the guest speaker.
Global trade of soft lumber has increased by 25 percent over the past two years after a decline in 2008 and 2009. In 2011, trace reached just over 90 million cu.m., which is still substantially below “pre-financial crises” levels. China, Japan, Spain and South Korea had the biggest rise in import volumes between 2010 and 2011. However, major importers such as the US, UK, Italy, France and Egypt reduced imports by 5-10 percent every year.
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Dynea Chemicals Oy has sold its paper overlays business and assets in Kitee, Finland to Surfactor Finland Oy on May 14, 2012.
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Lend Lease has recently unveiled plans to build the first high rise apartment building in Australia and the tallest in the world using Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), which it says heralds a new era for the construction industry.
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The Wood Awards is the UK’s premier architecture and furniture competition is calling for entries for the 2012 awards. The deadline for entries is June 1, 2012. The Wood Awards is celebrating excellence in design in the world’s most sustainable material. Now in its tenth year, the Wood Awards is the most respected award for building and design in wood.
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Conifex Timber Inc. reported a net loss of $6.5 million or $0.38 per share for the 1Q 2012 compared to a net loss of $7.5 million or $0.49 per share for the 4Q 2011, and a net loss of $3.6 million or $0.24 per share for the 1Q 2011.
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UPM has been shortlisted for the Ethical Corporation awards in the category of the Most Innovative Company. The awards will be presented in London on 25th June. 
Parul Sharma, an expert in the Nordic countries specialising in human rights issues will join Stora Enso as Vice President, Global Responsibility, for the Renewable Packaging Business Area on 18 June 2012. Renewable Packaging, headed by Mats Nordlander, is the Business
Area responsible for instance for Stora Enso’s integrated pulp and board mill investment in Guangxi, southern China. 
The 23rd Xylexpo, held at FieraMilano-Rho from 8 to 12 May on a total surface of 32,178 net 
square meters, was a truthful mirror of the current situation: the figures published by the Acimall Studies Office just before the exhibition indicated that, in the first quarter of this year, orders to the Italian industry decreased by 4.6 percent compared to the same period of 2011, whereby a minus 24.8 percent variation on the domestic market was partially balanced by orders from abroad (plus 4.25 percent).
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A high-level seminar organised by the ThinkForest forum concluded that forests and sustainable forest management are the key elements for green bio-economy. But as German Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Ilse Aigner pointed out “Despite all these positive trends, there are also negative developments. We must investigate the warnings that we are currently receiving from the scientific community.”
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Several high-level speakers have been added to the conference program of the 13th Asian
Pulp & Paper Outlook Conference under the vigilance of RISI. The event will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai, China, on June 11-13, 2012.
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The sponsors of the Wood Awards, UK’s premier architecture and furniture competition celebrating excellence in design in the world’s most sustainable material include leading organisations involved in wood marketing and education in the UK.
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Furniture Manufacturing & Supply China 2012 (FMC China 2012) will be staged at the Shanghai Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre (SWEECC) from 11 to 14 September, concurrently with FMC Premium 2012.
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Figures for 2012 Xylexpo were actually up to expectations: 43,295 visitors, 15.9 percent less than in 2010.
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The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), the leading international trade association
for the American hardwood industry, has announced that it will be exhibiting at Carrefour du Bois in Nantes from 6th to 8th June, 2012 (Hall 10.2, Stand D21).
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Finland produced 2.6 million tonnes of paper and paperboard in January-March 2012. The
Finnish forest industry's production environment was difficult in the 1Q and demand for several product categories was sluggish in the main market areas, as the Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) said in a press release received by Lesprom Network.
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Mr. Xu Lianjie, CEO of Hengan International Group has been selected as the Asian CEO of the Year for 2012 by RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry.
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Dieffenbacher has received an order for a complete OSB plant in China. This is the second continuous OSB plant that Dieffenbacher will build in China. The first OSB plant for Baoyuan began production in 2010. The new plant which will be located in Eastern China will have an annual capacity of 228,000 m³.
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The woodworking and furniture production world, meeting in Milan (Italy), in the Fiera Milano Rho Fairgrounds is being experienced by Wood & Panel Europe.
The Global Timber Tracking Network (GTTN), backed by Bioversity International as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry, is planning to promote the use of innovative control tools based on the application of DNA and stable isotope research to identify timber species and trace their origins.
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Dieffenbacher has received an order for a complete OSB plant in China. This is the second continuous OSB plant that Dieffenbacher will build in China.
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Ghana’s forest stood at 8.2 million hectares. But it was in the yester years. Currently, Ghana is importing logs from Cameroon.
World Bioenergy 2012 planned to launch Sustainable Bioenergy Day, dedicating its last day
to the development of a sustainable bioenergy market.
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Büttner Gesellschaft für Trocknungstechnik mbH and Siempelkamp Energy Systems GmbH became one company in December 2011. With this new synergy, Siempelkamp's motto "all from a single source" has once more been strengthened. Plant operators benefit from numerous advantages.
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At a state-level meeting of the Punjab Plywood Manufacturers’ Association (PPMA), members asked Punjab Industry Minister Anil Joshi to check the huge tax evasion that takes place when wood crosses outside Punjab and later when plywood comes inside the state. Joshi had come to address industrialists at the meeting.
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Vauth-Sagel, the systems components manufacturer from East Westphalia, has again understood how to pick up a happening trend and incorporate it into the existing product portfolio: Premea Artline complements the broad range of baskets with a noble variant, with which the unit front design can also be continued in the system fittings on request.
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Bollinger Report introduced featured coverage of Deltic Timber Corp and Louisiana-Pacific Corporation. Economic fundamentals leading into 2012 have set a generally positive pace with GDP growth likely to pick up through the coming year. However, there are several important caveats to note as the world economy continues to face headwinds and risks weigh to the downside.
The third edition of the biennial TECHNODOMUS International Expo of Wood Technology for the Furnishing and Construction Industries, organized by Rimini Fiera and inaugurated on Friday 20th April by Rimini’s Mayor Andrea Gnassi, ended with a bang.
For five expo days, companies at TECHNODOMUS had an exceptional showcase, with a select audience of industry members in front of whom they were able to show the technical innovation of which they are key players, offering the qualified demand on their behalf the best Italian products, second in the world and highly focussed on export to all continents.
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Produits Forestiers R.Perron Ltée. announced the arrival of Jean-René Paquet as its new partner. Jean-René will be joining our team on May 7 as chief executive officer.
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GreCon will exhibit new developments and enhancements of their current range of PREVENTIVE FIRE PROTECTION and MEASURING TECHNOLOGY for the wood, wood based panel and furniture industries at this year's XYLEXPO in Milan from 8 to 12 May 2012 in hall 4, stand A63.
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Three months before its opening, the 2012 Carrefour International du Bois was fully booked, thanks to a growing number of exhibitors (530), an exhibition surface area increase of 10% compared to 2010 and expected visitors of 10 000 (including 15% of international visitors). By releasing the results of two studies on construction and timber production in France, the Carrefour International du Bois will provide additional perspectives for industry professionals.
Demand for larch lumber from East Siberia has been growing in Germany since Easter. This is mainly owing to industrial planing mills having stepped up production on account of better sales opportunities for planed timber.
As part of the "Fill 2020" project, the first construction phase commenced in April 2012 alongside the existing Fill premises in Gurten. Urgently needed additional logistics and assembly space will be built here in the next twelve months on an 8,000 m2 site. An extension to the electro-workshop, the machining shop and a new service center will also be accommodated on the expanded, new company site. In total, about 35,000 m3 of earth will be moved in the coming weeks before the first phase begins with construction of the parking area, building site, a new road and the new water overflow and storage basin. "We are investing around € 25 million over the next few years in the Gurten plant. The next phase is scheduled for 2014 with construction of a 2,000 m2 service and training center. This is a clear commitment to our location here in the Innviertel," explain the CEOs Andreas Fill and Wolfgang Rathner.
Ghana is seeking to import timber from Cameroon to feed local processing plants lacking the raw materials to operate fully.
Cameroon contains some of the Congo Basin's most biologically diverse forest - over 300 species - extending over 22 million hectares. The country is a main tropical timber exporter, 80 percent of which is shipped to the European Union.
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The EU Timber Regulation becomes operational on 3 March 2013. From March 3, 2013 onwards, market players in the EU are officially prohibited from putting illegally felled timber and timber products on the market. In view of the approaching effective date, EU timber trade legislation for com-bating illegal felling was at the forefront of this year’s foreign-trade meeting organised by the foreign-trade unit of the German Timber Trade Federation on 13 April 2012.
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The Malaysian Insitute of Architects (PAM - Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia) is hosting a seminar on PEFC certification as part of its Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities. The seminar will take place on Monday, 23 April 2012, at the National Textile Museum in Kuala Lumpur.
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The entire London 2012 Olympic Park development has achieved dual Project Certification from the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) schemes for its timber usage —the first dual Project Certification in the world.
This groundbreaking achievement in sustainable timber procurement has played a prominent role in helping the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) achieve its commitment of making the London 2012 Olympic Games the greenest games ever with 100% of wood products supplied certified as legal and sustainable.
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