Search Results: 'Forest Stewardship Council'

Buyers' birthday
15 December, 2001
The WWF 95+ Group, the first buyers' group in the world, celebrated its first decade in business last month.

Economics and the environment
15 December, 2001
The Finnish forest industries are fronting up to the dual pressures of a depressed international market and demands for eco-certification

Industry remains optimistic
17 November, 2001
With a decline in demand and increasing pressure on prices, the anticipated slowdown in Ireland's timber markets seems to be taking hold

No peace for the certifiers
10 November, 2001
A lively debate at the AHEC conference showed a truce is yet to break out between the FSC and the SFI and PEFC certification schemes

Anglo-Swedish alliance
29 September, 2001
Interflex, the Anglo-Swedish wood-processing factory in Lithuania, is breaking new ground with veneer and plywood production in the Baltic states

Adding value to quantity
29 September, 2001
Arvydas Lebedys, the editor of MEC Naujienos – a newsletter published by the Centre of Forest Economics – gives an overview of developments in the past year

Vertical take-off
29 September, 2001
Latvia's timber industry is moving towards vertical integration and the furniture sector is seeing strong growth

Phoenix from the ashes
29 September, 2001
The new management of Scanforest is concentrating on development with eco-friendly equipment

Timber is still tops
29 September, 2001
The Estonian Investment Agency spells out the latest developments in the Estonian timber industry

The curate's market
22 September, 2001
As the US furniture industry faces increasing competition from imports, hardwood producers are cutting production and, in some cases, shutting down

S&C Timber keeps on growing
15 September, 2001

Inspired by history
01 September, 2001
Timber frame builders have been enjoying successful times of late. One small firm leaving its mark on Kent and Sussex is Millwood Designer Homes.

Back to basics
25 August, 2001
SCA – the Swedish Cellulose Company – was born in 1929 out of a recession which saw many of Sweden's sawmills go bankrupt. Today it is the world's biggest purchaser of pulp. SCA Timber plays a vital role in feeding the pulp mills – but it is developing its own position too.

Estate management
11 August, 2001
When Coillte evolved from Ireland's Forest Service 11 years ago it was given the country's forest estate – and a commercial mandate.

Two decades of Nexfor OSB
07 July, 2001

Fencing enjoys a revival
07 July, 2001
The weather is at last smiling on the fencing sector but it is a different story for pallets, where players can't move prices or stock because of oversupply

Finland enters new era
09 June, 2001
The structure of the forest products industry in Finland – and Norway and Sweden – continues to change, forcing sawmills into closer co-operation over timber marketing and forest certification

A&J Scott rises to Baltic challenge
12 May, 2001
By investing in people and machinery, home-grown merchant, sawmiller and pallet manufacturer A&J Scott aims to beat off competition.

Norway's exports slow
12 May, 2001
Export volumes are down on this time last year and, in addition, the domestic market is facing increasing competition from Russia and the Baltics

The future of forest certification
07 April, 2001
If 'certification' was the buzzword of the 90s, 'mutual recognition' is the mantra of the 21st century.