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Smooth system adds to JD machine response

26 April 2021
John Deere has added its Smooth Boom Control (SBC) technology to its M-Series Tracked Feller Bunchers and MH-Series Tracked Harvesters. Source: Timberbiz Developed in global collaboration between the John Deere Wheeled Cut-to-Length and Full-Tree Forestry teams, the SBC system instant
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Norske Skog to take advantage of need for recycled board

26 April 2021
Norske Skog has decided to convert one machine at its Bruck (Austria) industrial site from newsprint to recycled containerboard production. This is the first major step of the two planned European conversion projects in the group’s strategy of establishing Norske Skog as a leading ind
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Quiet achiever has 66 million trees

26 April 2021
Twelve years ago, New Zealand Carbon Farming was just a concept. Now, it is one of the country’s biggest landowners, and its business model – planting permanent forest – is looking more prescient by the day. Sources: Stuff NZ, Timberbiz The company was founded in 2010. By late 2019, a
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Help for woodlot owners to market and harvest for profit

26 April 2021
A third of New Zealand’s plantation forest estate is in the hands of woodlot owners. Harvesting can be a stressful time for some woodlot owners who may have little knowledge and experience of this phase of the woodlot management cycle. Source: Timberbiz A 15-video series, “How to mark
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A snapshot of newsprint imports to NZ, Australia to benefit

26 April 2021
New Zealand’s imports of newsprint have long been highly limited, due mainly to the self-sufficiency delivered by Norske Skog’s Tasman Mill. That will change in coming months as the Tasman mill transitions to be a supplier of ‘pulp-on-reel’ products and perhaps take up other opportuni
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Australian builders declare their support for timber

26 April 2021
Australian builders declare is a movement to raise awareness of the need for action in building construction to play a major part in emissions and to advocate for faster change in the industry towards an improved standard of construction and more regenerative construction practices. S
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HarvestTECH attracts 350 from forestry and timber

26 April 2021
Around 350 forestry managers, wood transport schedulers, logging contractors, forest owners, harvest planners and major equipment and technology suppliers met up in New Zealand for HarvestTECH. Sources: Timberbiz, HarvestTECH It was one of the largest gatherings seen in New Zealand an
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reDirect wood waste and create new wood products

26 April 2021
Australian Panels and recycler reDirect will join forces to recover clean wood waste. reDirect Recycling will develop and operate integrated resource recovery centres to recover clean wood waste that can be used in advanced manufacturing techniques. A focus of Australian Panel Product
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Timbersports comes to St Kilda

26 April 2021
Australia’s top STIHL TIMBERSPORTS athletes will be chopping and sawing at the Melbourne’s St Kilda foreshore on Saturday 8 May vying for the 2021 Australian Trophy & Australian Women’s Championship. Source: Timberbiz The Australian Trophy was the last competition in the global se
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Market developments in the light of paper recycling import bans by China

23 April 2021
Cepi, the European association representing the paper industry, has been closely monitoring market developments in reaction to the material waste import ban by the Chinese authorities including paper for recycling, the redirection of global flows of paper for recycling and structural
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