timber News
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Expobiomasa delivers: 16,423 professionals visited the largest annual sector fair in Europe
The 564 exhibitors, who came from 24 countries and took up over 26,000 m2of exhibition space, were already expecting Expobiomasa to be a success. Now, only a few days after doors closed on the event, organiser AVEBIOMcan confirm that those and their own expectations were fulfilled. The final number of unique visiting professionals recorded accessing the event comes to 16,423 – slightly ...
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SGS Fforestry Monitoring Programme is awarded a five-year contract in DRC
SGS Forestry Monitoring Programme (GIS) is pleased to announce that, on January 20, 2010, it signed a five year contract with the Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism (MECNT) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to initiate implementation of an integrated forest control system to monitor and verify forest logging, timber chain-of-custody and forest product exports. DRC’s ...
By SGS
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House passes bill to hasten timber projects in forests
The House passed a bill Thursday designed to improve the health of national forests by scaling back the environmental reviews that go into some timbering projects and discouraging lawsuits that delay projects. The goal is to speed up timber harvests and underbrush removal that the U.S. Forest Service deems necessary to improve the health of national forests, which are taking a hit from drought, ...
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Sino-Forest Provides Update on the Status of its Accounts Receivable
Sino-Forest Corporation ("Sino-Forest" or the "Company") today provided a status update regarding its efforts to collect accounts receivable owing to subsidiaries of the Company. In support of the Company's March 30, 2012 application under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act ("CCAA"), Sino-Forest filed an affidavit (the "Initial Affidavit") that, among other things, described the two ...
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Trimble introduces Blue Ox integrated transportation management system for forestry
Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) today introduced the Blue Ox™ system, an integrated transportation management solution for forestry applications. Blue Ox integrates several mobile technologies with real-time data across the forestry supply chain. The system analyzes and processes the data to help timber companies, loggers and trucking firms increase the percentage of loaded miles, take advantage of more ...
By Trimble
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Guide for Business Drives Better Decisions on Forest Products
The World Resources Institute (WRI) and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) today released the third edition of Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-based Products to help businesses buy products from sustainably managed forests and improve forest management. The full guide resource kit is available online here or at www.SustainableForestProducts.org. With the third ...
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