Search Results: 'Forest Research'

Business as usual
16 December, 2006
Finland's timber industry is restructuring, but it remains committed to its UK business

Caring and sharing
16 December, 2006
A cross-sectoral seminar in Finland found that communication and information-sharing are key in the debate on using – and protecting – the world's natural resources. Eeva Hellström of the Finnish Forest Association reports

Reindeer rights
16 December, 2006
While harvesting levels have been reduced in Upper Lapland, recent research maintains that reindeer herding should not take precedence over other livelihoods. Kai Lintunen of the Finnish Forest Association reports

Federation sponsors New Guinean on IWSc course
08 December, 2006

Alice Holt given research status
07 December, 2006
Alice Holt Forest has become a research forest, formalising scientific studies conducted there since the 1950s.

Forest industries urged to prepare research projects
28 November, 2006
Europe's forest-based sector needs to come up with projects to capitalise on European research funding, an international conference has heard in Finland.

Study paints brighter picture of world's forests
17 November, 2006
A new study has shown the world's forests may be in better condition than previously thought.

Invest and prosper
11 November, 2006
A boom period in Swedish sawmilling is enabling the industry to invest in the future. Johanna Blom, of the Swedish Forest Industries Federation, reports

Room at the top
11 November, 2006
Setra is expanding its operations in multi-storey timber construction

ABP adds weight to Swansea promotion
30 October, 2006
Associated British Ports (ABP) is helping to promote Swansea by becoming a partner of a new marketing company designed to promote the city in the UK and internationally.

Industry restructures to improve competitiveness
28 October, 2006
Finland's big forest products companies are restructuring to redress the imbalance between production and profitability

Industry restructures to improve competitiveness
28 October, 2006
Finland's big forest products companies are restructuring to redress the imbalance between production and profitability

Irish forests pay their environmental way
23 October, 2006
Ireland's forests contribute €1.65 billion to the national economy and are also helping it meet environmental obligations under the Kyoto protocol, according to reports from the National Council for Forest Research and Development, COFORD.

Symposium discusses biofuel impact
20 October, 2006
The fifth European wood-based panel symposium in Hanover attracted 320 people from 30 countries.

All active on the home front
14 October, 2006
Restricted supply from overseas is playing into the hands of UK mills, and full order books are being reported

All active on the home front
14 October, 2006
Restricted supply from overseas is playing into the hands of UK mills, and full order books are being reported

Finland develops research strategy
13 October, 2006
A new research strategy aims to double the value of the Finnish forest clusters products and services by 2030.

FFIF calls for more use of domestic wood
04 October, 2006
Steps must be taken to grow the use of domestic wood raw material in Finland, according to the Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF).

Woodfuel information published
30 September, 2006
Three new sources of information for potential users and suppliers of woodfuel and other biomass were revealed by Tim Rollinson, Forestry Commission director-general, at the APF International Forestry Machinery Exhibition at Ragley Estate, Warwickshire last week.

Forest biodiversity work brings results
14 September, 2006
Forest biodiversity protection work in Finnish commercial forests has produced encouraging results, according to a new research report.