Tembec Inc. (“Tembec”) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tembec Industries Inc. (the “Company”), has extended the expiration date of its previously announced offer to exchange (the “exchange offer”) up to US $50,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Company’s outstanding 11.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 issued in February 2012 (the “initial notes”) that are tendered in the exchange offer for an equal principal amount of its 11.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 that have been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
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The Forestry Commission and the Food & Environment Research Agency (Fera) have welcomed a call by the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) for a voluntary moratorium on importing ash trees. The moratorium call is a bid to help prevent the destructive disease Chalara dieback of ash becoming established in the UK.
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Flakeboard Company Limited and Arauco announced that they have finalized the sale agreement for all outstanding Flakeboard shares to Arauco.
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The first-ever Wangari Maathai Award has been given to a forestry activist from Nepal to recognize his efforts to promote community forest management. The ceremony took place at the Committee on Forestry (COFO), at FAO headquarters in Rome. The prize includes a cash award of $20,000.
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Both Japan and South Korea intend to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and increasingly rely on renewable energy in the future. As a consequence, both countries will increase their importation of wood pellets and energy chips from other countries in Asia and from North America in the coming years, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is now accepting applications for the 2012 NAHB/Builders Mutual Insurance Company Safety Award For Excellence (SAFE). The awards program recognizes home builders and contractors who have developed and implemented high quality workplace safety programs, and also honors government officials and NAHB-affiliated associations who work to advance safety in the home building industry.
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Since August 2012, MARTIN Woodworking Machines Corp. has been offering an expanded product portfolio to its customers in the North American market. The product portfolio has been rounded out with edgebanding machines, presses and work tables. The idea is to enable its American and Canadian customers to get everything they need for their workshop directly from MARTIN US.
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The 18th Furniture Manufacturing & Supply China (FMC China 2012) was successfully held from September 11-14, 2012 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center. The exhibition lasted for four days, and was held concurrently with ‘FMC Premium 2012’.
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Super-Click International has signed an agreement to distribute Super-Click. The deal to distribute Super-Click is shared between PR Floors and Flooring Distributors of Australia, also known as ‘FDA’. PR Floors, based in Brisbane, will distribute in Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania. Perth-based FDA will distribute for Western Australia (WA), Southern Australia (SA) and the Northern Territory (NT).
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Stiles Machinery is pleased to announce that their Ironwood line of classical woodworking machinery is now available to purchase online via the company’s website.
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Softwood lumber suppliers are still not yet registering any fundamental upswing in demand even now the summer holidays are over in southern Germany.
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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is now accepting submissions for its 2013 NAHBGreen Awards. Each year, NAHB recognizes individuals, companies and organizations for excellence in residential green design and construction practices and for green building program and advocacy efforts.
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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has called on the U.S. government to avoid using the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement (TPP) as a means of renegotiating the U.S.-Canadian softwood lumber agreement prior to its 2015 expiration date.
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The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), has successfully hosted its ‘Annual Membership Meeting’ and an ‘International Buyers Panel’ at the recently concluded NHLA Convention in Chicago. Widely regarded as the annual ‘global gathering of the hardwood community’, over eight hundred delegates attended the 115th annual NHLA convention, which took place at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers in Chicago from September 13-15, 2012. The highly anticipated ‘International Buyers Panel’ included a panel of importers from several of the key global markets who collaborated with AHEC members and American exporters to share their thoughts on the export markets and potential for U.S. hardwoods.
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The Timber Trade Federation’s ‘Engineered Timber Forum’ has announced that it is running a series of free seminars to help educate and inform architects, engineers and other construction professionals about the benefits of using engineered timber products.
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The BWF Stair Scheme has welcomed 19 new members this summer in a major boost to the joinery industry’s work to build increasing confidence in timber stair products.
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BWF publication to help joinery and woodworking firms prepare for 3 March 2013, when new European regulations on timber will come into force across the EU.
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As the global community looks for ways to move to a greener economy, it is increasingly clear that forests, forestry and forest products must play a central role.
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Wood for Good – the timber industry’s sustainability and promotion campaign – is submitting an entry for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC’s) £1 billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) program.
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Less than a week to Timber Expo, when the Ricoh Arena, Coventry finally opens its doors and hosts the largest annual gathering of the timber sector from September 25-26. More than 5000 visitors including architects, engineers, contractors and local authorities are expected to attend Timber Expo 2012.
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The first CPD (continuing professional development) scheme for the joinery and woodworking industry is being launched at W12 on October 8, 2012 by the British Woodworking Federation (BWF).
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The new FricoFlex friction fitting from Hettich gives manufacturers of upholstered furniture the capability of making upholstered-furniture head and arm rests adjust to any position in complete and utter silence.
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Stiles Machinery Inc. have added Pro-Tech Machinery as a new distributor in California. Pro-Tech Machinery will exclusively represent the complete line of Stiles products for woodworking accounts in central valley California and western Nevada territories.
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In 2007, China imported wood chips from only three countries: Vietnam, Indonesia and Australia, who together shipped 1.1 million tons throughout the year. With the fast expansion of the pulp industry in China, the country is rapidly growing its need for wood fiber. Domestic supplies have proven inadequate, so the list of supplying countries has expanded from three to eight over the past 12 months.
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WoodWorks to present a description on the Life Cycle Tower ONE (LCT ONE), an eight-story wood office building recently built in Austria through a webinar on September 25. LCT ONE was the culmination of a research and development project that resulted in a system for building timber high-rises up to 30 stories.
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Housing production has risen 2.3 percent nationwide to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 750,000 units in August, according to new figures from HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau. This increase was fueled entirely by gains in the single-family sector, where the pace of new construction rose in every region for a combined 5.5 percent gain to 535,000 units.
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NSF International in collaboration with the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) to develop a Product Category Rule (PCR) for office storage products. This PCR will provide a science-based and internationally recognized method for reporting the environmental impact of office storage products including casegoods, files, cabinets, and other related products throughout their entire life cycle. Product Category Rules define how to conduct a life cycle assessment (LCA) for a particular product group and what to include in the resulting report, called an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).
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Schattdecor will be exhibiting a wealth of new decor ideas at SICAM in Pordenon from October 17-20. Decors that offer a striking look in harmonious symbiosiswith textural effects will be placed on display, and customers from the timber products and laminates industry are sure to be galvanised by new designs from the Digital Visions collection, but the absolute highlight of Schattdecor's showing will be the unveiling of its Unique Colours collection of solid-colour decors.
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In order to find innovative ways of addressing current and emerging threats to UK forests, woods and trees from pests and diseases research funders have come together in a bid. The multi-disciplinary Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Initiative aims to generate knowledge to support the future health and resilience of trees and woodlands.
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The French plywood manufacturer Plysorol, is now being wound up completely. It has been undergoing judicial restructuring proceedings (“adminstration judiciaire”) since June 2012.
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The Italian plywood manufacturer Reni has resumed production operations, after the regular company holidays in August, but only on a reduced scale.
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Olle Berg is appointed as the Market and Business Development Director at Setra. Pontus Friberg will take up the position of Business Support Director. Three of Setra’s sawmills - Kastet, Nyby and Hasselfors – will have new managers in the autumn.
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The number of improving housing markets across the country rose to 99 in September, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI). This is up from 80 metros that were listed as improving in August and includes representatives from 33 states as well as the District of Columbia.
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To increase the competitiveness of land uses when compared with unsustainable ones, the main challenges countries face in enhancing sustainable forest and land management.
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Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose for a fifth consecutive month in September to a level of 40 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI).
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Olle Berg is appointed as the Market and Business Development Director at Setra. Pontus Friberg will take up the position of Business Support Director. Three of Setra’s sawmills - Kastet, Nyby and Hasselfors – will have new managers in the autumn.
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Stora Enso has signed an agreement to establish a joint venture called Bulleh Shah Packaging (Private) Limited with Packages Ltd. of Pakistan. The joint venture will include the operations of the Kasur mill and Karachi plant currently owned by Packages Ltd. Their initial shareholding will be 35% with a commitment to increase the shareholding at the agreed value to 50% at a later stage subject to certain conditions being met.
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For CE marking, having a written Factory Production Control (FPC) system is one of the key requirements. Factory Production Control manual and guidance has been divided into 5 parts and made exclusively free to BWF members, to make sure that complying with this part of the regulations doesn’t become a complicated and bureaucratic process.
According to the reports PIABC to launch new qualifications and apprenticeships aimed at the wood industry on September 25 at 12:30pm, in the Legends Lounge, Ricoh Arena, Coventry.
Source:- Woodandpanel.com
Stora Enso Building and Living has won the coveted Achievement in Engineered Timber Award at this year’s Timber Trade Journal (TTJ) Awards in the United Kingdom. The award is in recognition of the complex cross-laminated timber (CLT) engineering solution in the construction of Bridport House, an eight-storey social housing building in the London Borough of Hackney.
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Two elements in a Law Enforcement Against Deforestation (LEAD) training initiative for environmental enforcement officers provided by INTERPOL in collaboration with the Brazilian Federal Police were jungle survival and the use of geoprocessing tools.
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UPM-Kymmene Corporation applies for listing of stock option rights 2007C of UPM-Kymmene Corporation Stock Options 2007 programme on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock exchange to commence on 1 October 2012.
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The BWF and the Timber Trade Federation have written a joint response to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to warn of the consequences of incentivising the burning of certain types of biomass, and give views on the classification of certain wood products as ‘waste’. The response was to a DECC consultation seeking views on proposals for the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).
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In Illertissen, WEINIG showed an impressive demonstration of its technology leadership. Presentation of biggest WEINIG cutting line ever for company Promasa in Chile was the highlight of the event.
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In the first half of this year the Swedish market for forest machines remained strong in but the big machinery manufacturers are losing market share. That’s the conclusion of statistics on forwarder sales presented by Elmia Wood.
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Pro Timber Debate 2012 will be held from September 24, 2012.
This half day event is designed to bring together a cross-section of industry leaders to discuss current trends and inspire a future path ahead for the sector. Two market research studies have been commissioned looking at changes to the way building materials are specified and the development activities of other building materials sectors such as concrete and steel.
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The machinery and technology for wood and wood-based material processing, the situation seems tuff: after four positive quarters, the expansion of global markets has stopped. It’s a “natural” trend, in absolute terms and still represent the most significant business for an industry with a 70 per cent export share on its production. On the contrary, the situation in Italy is still very complicated, with “structural” stagnation that is jeopardizing the companies with predominantly domestic business.
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Forestry Commission England has announced the launch of a new apprenticeship scheme that will employ and train 20 apprentices across the country.
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The Austrian window-scantling industry recorded a reduction of 7.6% in its output in the first half-year 2012 to 21,163 m³. According to the association of Austrian construction and window scantling producers in Vienna, the level of output in the first six months of 2012 was thus more or less on par with that of the first half-year 2010.
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UPM has been listed as the only forestry and paper company worldwide in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. The company has been selected both as a Supersector Leader in Basic Resources sector and Forestry & Paper Sector Leader for 2012-2013 in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). UPM was chosen as an index component for both to the European and World Sustainability Index for 2012-2013.
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