Tag Archives: from
Canadian companies profit from US and China
Canadian lumber producers West Fraser Timber (WFT) and Western Forest Products (WEF) have announced the biggest combined profit since 2006 as mills run at five year highs to feed the US housing rebound and near-record Chinese demand. Source: Bloomberg
Daily Timber News
Vietnam forests suffering from agriculture
Vietnam’s forests, depleted by illegal logging, encroachment, mining and hydropower projects as well as bad management, have been struggling with another threat – the agriculture sector. Source: VietNamNet
Daily Timber News
Furniture award rises from the ashes
Despite losing its best native timber drying stacks in the November 2011 bushfires, Jahroc of Margaret River has won a category in the 2012 Australian Furniture of the Year Awards in Melbourne. Source: Augusta Margaret River Mail
Daily Timber News
Additional income from bioenergy Mallee eucalypts
Australia can be prominent in the development of bioenergy industries. Energy tree cropping can be designed to integrate with agricultural enterprises across the wheat belt farming areas without compromising food and fibre production or security of water supply. Source: Timberbiz
Daily Timber News
UK industry has support from government
Some of the biggest names in the UK timber sector have pledged widespread support for the Government’s Independent Panel on Forestry Report. Source: Lesprom