Treecycling for Twelfth Night
You’ve enjoyed a lovely Christmas with your tree taking centre stage, but what do you do with it now? Once the festive period comes to an end the Government estimates…
EGGER Turns 60
Since 1961, EGGER has developed from a Tirolean sawmill into one of the world’s leading manufacturers of wood-based materials. The pioneering spirit of the founder, Fritz Egger sr., still characterises…
Stora Enso Is Investing €23 Million Into Board Production At The Varkaus Site In Finland
Stora Enso invests €23 million for increasing flexibility and capacity at the Varkaus containerboard mill, resulting also in expanded capacity of using recycled fibre. Preparatory work on the investment will…
National Trust Warns Of “Catastrophic” Impact Of Tree And Plant Disease
British trees are under threat from an increase in the severity and frequency of diseases, the National Trust has warned. Pathogens like ash dieback, Phytophthora ramorum and acute oak decline…
Could There Be Dark Times Ahead
After the feature I did on the Tesla Cybertruck, it set me thinking about where the extra electricity is going to come from to charge all of our electric vehicles…
PRINOTH Tracked Ponsse Buffalo
I saw this PRINOTH Rubber tracked Ponsse Buffalo at Interforst in Munich in 2018 and thought it would have been ideal for some of the wet flat peaty sites of…
Logset 8H GTE Hybrid, Green Energy for the Emerald Isle
The first Logset Hybrid 8H GTE timber harvester has been sold by RJ Fukes Forestry Services of Llandovery in Mid Wales to Michael Doherty of the Doherty Group (DG) in…
Logset invests in harvester head production
During spring 2021 Logset has made comprehensive investments in the harvester head assembly at the factory in Koivulahti. New harvester head assembly spaces have been built which increases the production…
Forestry Commission acts on bark beetle tree pest
New breeding populations of the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) have been discovered in Kent and East Sussex. From:Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Forestry Commission, and Animal…
Log Transport Optimized: Four New Material Handlers at Rettenmeier Wilburgstetten
A greenfield project to be proud of: Rettenmeier, one of the largest manufacturers of DIY wood products, started construction of a new sawmill at the Wilburgstetten site in spring 2020.…