New Forestry Board Members Announced By Oregon Senate

The Oregon Senate has confirmed Governor John Kitzhaber’s appointments of Tom Imeson as chair and Michael Rose as a member of the state Board of Forestry.

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Rougier Gabon Receives BS 1088 compliant Lloyd's Register Type Approval certification

Rougier, global leader in the business of certified African tropical timber, has announced that its factory in Owendo (Libreville - Gabon), which is specialised in the manufacturing of 100% full Okoume plywood, has obtained BS 1088 compliant Lloyd’s Register Type Approval certification. 

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WEINIG Awarded In China

At China’s window trade fair “Fenestration” in Beijing, WEINIG was chosen the most trustworthy and sustainable mechanical engineering company in the industry.

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LIGNA And Interzum To Take Place In Succession

LIGNA in Hannover and interzum in Cologne, the two fairs are staged in quick succession so that international visitors can attend both in a single trip. In 2013, LIGNA and interzum will once again provide a comprehensive overview of the materials, design solutions and technologies currently available for the wood working, wood processing and furniture industries.

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NAHB Reports Rise In Sales In November

Sales of new single-family homes increased 4.4 percent in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 377,000 units, according to figures released today by HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau. It was the highest monthly total since April 2010 when the federal home buyer tax credit expired.

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UFPI Issued New Agreement

Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced that it has successfully negotiated loan agreements with Prudential Investment Management, Inc. totaling $75 million, which will be used to refinance $40 million of existing notes and for expansionary capital, including the acquisition of Custom Caseworks, Inc., a manufacturer of commercial casework, fixtures and related products.

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EACOM Timber Corporation Board Announces Completion Of Elk Lake Upgrades

EACOM Timber Corporation (ETR: TSX-V) (“EACOM”, or the “Company”) has announced that the Board has approved entering into an agreement with USNRKockums Cancar Inc.,(“USNR”) to rebuild the Timmins Mill.  The total cost of the project is estimated at $25 million, a substantial portion of which is being funded from proceeds of insurance related to a fire. As reported in January of this year, the mill located in Timmins Ontario was destroyed by fire.  To date the Company has received $23,700,000 of insurance proceeds, $13,700,000 related to business interruption and $10,000,000 for damage or destruction of assets.

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The New EU Timber Regulation Begins From March 2013

As of next March, weeding out illegal timber from the EU will be the responsibility of the European forest owner as seller or the company importing timber in the EU, as Finnish Forest Association said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

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New Shares Of UPM subscribed

A total of 301,449 UPM-Kymmene Corporation new shares were subscribed for between 1 November 2012 and 10 December 2012 under the company's stock option rights 2007B. The entire subscription price of EUR 1,881,041.76 will be entered in the invested unrestricted equity reserve. As a result of the share subscriptions, the number of UPM's shares will increase to 526,124,410. 

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Final Boiler MACT, Incinerator, And NHSM Rules Unveiled By EPA

On December 21, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT), Incinerator, and Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials (NHSM) rules following months of agency review in which the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) has been closely engaged.

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Well Known Exhibitors To Be Present At Forest Products EXPO

The biggest names in forest products equipment manufacturing are set to display their latest products and services at the 32nd Forest Products Machinery and Equipment Exposition – EXPO 2013. Sponsored by the Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA), this three day event is set for June 5-7 at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center.

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Metsa Wood To Be Present At BAU 2013

Metsä Wood shows its sustainable and competitive systems and products at the BAU 2013 fair in Munich, Germany, on 14–19 January 2013, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network.

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NAHB Reports Steady Growth In Housing Market In 2013

Upward trends in recent months among a number of housing indicators point to a slow and steady growth in the nation’s housing market in 2013, but several challenges remain, according to the latest economic and housing forecast by David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). 

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FRA Reports Increased Lumber Exports

Forestry Research Associates (FRA) has reported from a forestry market analyst claiming that Chinese demand for Canadian timber will increase in 2013. 

British Columbia, one of the main timber growing regions in Canada, exported a total of 5.4 million cubic metres of softwood lumber in the first nine months of the year. Although this was a slight decline on the exports in the same period of 2011, Mark Kennedy of CIBC World Markets claims this is all to change. 

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NAHB Reports Housing Starts Slip

Nationwide housing starts slipped 3.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 861,000 units in November, according to newly released data from HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau. Meanwhile, permits for new construction rose to their strongest level in more than four years, with a 3.6 percent gain to 899,000 units.

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KUO Announced Cash Tender Offer

Grupo KUO, S.A.B. de C.V., hereinafter Grupo KUO or the “Company”, announced the final results of its previously announced cash tender offer and consent solicitation (the “Offer”), for any and all of its outstanding 9.75% Senior Notes Due 2017 (CUSIP 40052CAA4 and P4954BAA4; ISIN US40052CAA45 and USP4954BAA46) (the “Notes”). The Offer expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on December 14, 2012 (the “Expiration Time”).

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UPM Sells Forest Land To Taaleritehdas

UPM and Taaleritehdas have agreed on the sale of 6,000 hectares of forest land. The estates are located in Central and Eastern Finland in Pyhäntä, Utajärvi, Kiuruvesi and Ilomantsi. At the same time the parties have signed an agreement on wood trade and forest services. It has been agreed by the parties not to disclose the purchase price.

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FRA Reports Increased Lumber Exports

Forestry Research Associates (FRA) has reported from a forestry market analyst claiming that Chinese demand for Canadian timber will increase in 2013. 

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Nationwide housing starts slipped 3.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 861,000 units in November, according to newly released data from HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau. Meanwhile, permits for new construction rose to their strongest level in more than four years, with a 3.6 percent gain to 899,000 units.

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EU Research Project On Algae-Based Polymers Begins

On 19-21 November 2012 the twenty partners involved in an EU funded research programme held their kick-off meeting in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Led by Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, the 4-year project has the goal to develop a new biobased industrial platform using microalgae as raw material for the sustainable production and recovery of hydrocarbons and (exo)polysaccharides from algae and their further conversion to renewable polymers.

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Canfor Invests Capital In Elko Sawmill

Canfor Corporation announced that the Company will proceed with capital investments totaling an estimated $40 million in its Elko sawmill, located in the Kootenay region of British Columbia (B.C.). This investment is part of a multi-year capital investment program aimed at enhancing productivity and cost performance across the company.

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NAHB Reports Builders Confidence In December

Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose for an eighth consecutive month in December to a level of 47 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). This marked a two-point gain from a slightly revised November reading, and the highest level the index has attained since April of 2006.

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Sir Harry Studholme The New Forestry Commissioner

Forestry Commissioner Sir Harry Studholme has been appointed interim Chair of the Board of Forestry Commissioners from 1 January until 30 June 2013.

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Confor Welcomes The Decision By Scotland Local Government

Following persistent pressure from Confor and Scottish Land & Estates not to subject forest roads and tracks to the requirement of obtaining planning permission, Confor welcomes the decision by Scotland's local government minister, Derek Mackay, that the status quo will remain. 

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American Forest & Paper Association Released A Statement Of NAAQS

American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman released the following statement following the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of its final National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM).

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RFS Excellence In Forestry Awards

The RFS Excellence in Forestry Awards are now established as the country's premier competition, recognising the wise management of trees and woodlands and supporting schools that are involved in promoting learning from seed to saw at all ages.

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Hamm Court Endorses Klausner Contracts

 On 3 December 2012 the Second Civil Chamber of the Higher Regional Court of Hamm endorsed the first-instance judgement delivered by Münster district court on 17 February 2012 in the matter of contracts for the supply of logs by the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) to the Klausner group. 

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NAHB Welcomes Federal Occupational Safety And Health Administration

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) applauds the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration for listening to the industry’s plea to consider the negative implications the recent change in the fall protection requirements — such an important component of job site safety — would have on residential construction companies. 

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American Wood Council Issued A Statement

American Wood Council (AWC) President and CEO Robert Glowinski issued the following statement following the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of its final National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM).

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Norwood Launched Production At Its New Sawmill

North-west Russian forestry and sawmill company Norwood, which belongs to Latvian timber group Norvik Timber Industries launched production at its new sawmill on 26 November 2012.

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Acimall Promotion Plan For 2013

The promotion plan for 2013 has been approved by Acimall, with a calendar including global exhibitions that are considered strategic for the promotion of made-in-Italy wood technology.

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Figures of Construction New Orders Third Quarter 2012 Released

Figures of construction new orders for the third quarter of 2012, which have been released by ONS, are 7 per cent lower than the same quarter of 2011and 5 per cent lower over the first three quarters of this year, when compared to the same period last year.

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AHEC Seminar In Bengaluru Is A Success

The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), the international trade association for the American hardwood industry has successfully hosted a ‘Designing & Working with American Hardwoods’ seminar in Bengaluru, India in partnership with the Institute of Indian Interior Designers (IIID). The seminar was organized in conjunction with the IIID Bangalore Chapter and centered around two key presentations on the range and diversity of the American hardwood forest, sustainable management, production for export, working properties of species and end use applications. The event, which was held at the Le Meridien Hotel in Bengaluru, was attended by over 120 architects, designers and manufacturers and followed an AHEC trade servicing mission to Delhi and Bengaluru.

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EACOM Timber Approves Agreement With USNR

According to EACOM Timber's Board has approved entering into an agreement with USNRKockums Cancar Inc., ("USNR") to rebuild the Timmins mill in Canada.

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EACOM Timber Approves Agreement With USNR

According to EACOM Timber's Board has approved entering into an agreement with USNRKockums Cancar Inc., ("USNR") to rebuild the Timmins mill in Canada.

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Dieffenbacher In Collaboration With Fraunhofer Opens Project Center In Canada

Dieffenbacher supplied leading technologies for manufacturing fiber-reinforced plastic components to the newly inaugurated Fraunhofer Project Center (FPC) and, in doing so, continued its successful working relationship with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

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Figures of Construction New Orders Third Quarter 2012 Released

Figures of construction new orders for the third quarter of 2012, which have been released by ONS, are 7 per cent lower than the same quarter of 2011and 5 per cent lower over the first three quarters of this year, when compared to the same period last year.

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Dieffenbacher In Collaboration With Fraunhofer Opens Project Center In Canada

Dieffenbacher supplied leading technologies for manufacturing fiber-reinforced plastic components to the newly inaugurated Fraunhofer Project Center (FPC) and, in doing so, continued its successful working relationship with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

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Josef Ziegler To Produce KVH And Glulam From 2013

The German medium-sized sawmill company Josef Ziegler will produce finger-jointed carcassing (KVH) and glulam timber from 2013 onwards.

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Resolute Forest Products Inc. Completed The Sale Of Mersey Assets

Resolute Forest Products Inc. has announced that the province of Nova Scotia, represented by the minister of the Department of Economic and Rural Development and Tourism, has completed the purchase of all the shares of Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited for nominal consideration. 

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Eumabois Sponsors A New Exhibition In 2013

The general assembly approved the exhibition calendar for 2013, including all the events that will be sponsored by Eumabois, the European federation of woodworking technology, tools and accessories manufacturers.

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UPM Raflatac Achieves ISO 14001 Certification

UPM Raflatac has received certification to the ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System for its Malaysia labelstock manufacturing facility. The certification represents a significant step toward achieving one of the company’s major goals to have all UPM Raflatac production facilities ISO 14001 certified.

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Schelling Integrates Panhans Portfolio

Two years after the takeover of the Austrian panel saw producer Panhans by AWB Maschinenbau and Schelling Anlagenbau GmbH, Schelling is taking the strategic integration of the Panhans portfolio to its logical conclusion.

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Dario Corbetta Appointed As Deputy Director Of Cepra, Centro Promozionale Acimall

During a meeting of the Board of Directors on November 6, Dario Corbetta was appointed to deputy director of Cepra, Centro promozionale Acimall. The new assignment is an acknowledgment to the skills and longstanding experience of the manager, who joined the Confindustria-member association of Italian woodworking technology manufacturers in 1991, after previous jobs in Ucimu-Sistemi per produrre and in global corporations like Continental and 3M.

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Wintersteiger And VAP Come Together

Specialist machine manufacturer Wintersteiger AG from Upper Austria has brought on board VAP with its innovative machine manufacturing skills. Both companies have now been charting the same course since the beginning of November.

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Super-Click International Is Now Another Distributor Of Super-Click

Super-Click International has reached a distribution agreement with Super Carpet , Ecuador’s flooring specialist. The agreement involves Super-Carpet holding stock of Super-Click at their facility in Quito and displaying it to their wide array of commercial clients within their modern showroom.

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Prices Of Softwood Pulp Shows A Downward Trend

Wood Resource Quarterly reports weaker pulp markets are forcing pulp manufacturers worldwide to reduce costs, resulting in the lowest softwood wood fiber prices seen since 2010.

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EU Timber Regulation Guidance Launched

A free guidance standard to help businesses comply with the EU Timber Regulation has been produced ahead of the regulation coming into effect early next year.

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New Material To Be Made By Cosentino

The Spanish supplier of quartz and natural stone surfaces, Cosentino,is presently building a new plant in Cantoria to make its new ultra-compact material, Dekton. This product contains a variety of undisclosed inorganic components and is to be launched next spring. 

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NAHB Announces Housing Awards 2013 Finalists

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has announced the finalists for NAHB’s 2013 Best of 50+ Housing Awards, the premier design and marketing competition for the 50+ housing industry. A total of 83 entries were chosen as finalists and are eligible for either a Gold or Silver Award from NAHB’s 50+ Housing Council.

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