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Timber movement control technology transfered

The Brazilian computerised system for data recording in timber operations and trade called “Document of Forest Origin” (DOF) will be shared with other Latin American countries and also with South Africa, China and Russia according to the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA).

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Issue date: 
July 8th, 2011
Publisher Name: 
International ForestIndustries
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.internationalforestindustries.com
Reference-Link: 

http://www.internationalforestindustries.com/2011/07/08/timber-movement-...

UPM to sell its logging company in Russia to International Paper

UPM and International Paper have signed an agreement concerning the sale of UPM's ownership in the Russian logging company ZAO Tikhvinsky Komplexny Lespromkhoz. According to the agreement, the operations, permanent personnel and logging license covering 184,000 hectares of forest area in Tikhvin in the Leningrad oblast will transfer to International Paper Russia Holding B.V. The parties have decided not to disclose the transaction price. The final closure of the transaction is subject to the approval of Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
April 13, 2011
Publisher Name: 
Timber Community
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.timbercommunity.com
Reference-Link: 

http://www.timbercommunity.com/content/upm-sell-its-logging-company-russ...

Três Lagoas will host the two largest pulp mills in the world

Brazilian Valonline reports today that Marcelo Castelli, director at Fibria Cellulose SA with eucalyptus plantings in the city Três Lagoas (In the state Mato Groso de Sul) will maintain the schedule for opening of the second line of factory in 2014. With investments of 5.8 billion real (BRL), the forests must be planted before the end of 2011.

1 BRL = 0.583771 USD
1 BRL = 0.447944 EUR
1 BRL = 4.09412 SEK

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
November 30, 2010
Publisher Name: 
Timbercommunity
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.timbercommunity.com
Reference-Link: 

http://www.timbercommunity.com/content/tr-s-lagoas-will-host-two-largest...

Statement of principles catalyst for Tasmanian pulp mill project

Australian forest company Gunns Ltd, which is planning to build a new giant pulp mill on the Australian island of Tasmania, possibly in collaboration with Swedish Södra, welcomes a historic forest statement of principles, which was announced yesterday.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
October 19th, 2010
Publisher Name: 
Papernet SE
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.papernet.se
Reference-Link: 

http://www.papernet.se/iuware.aspx?pageid=346&ssoid=127453

Sappi Forests buys 14 500-ha plantation from Mondi

Paper and pulp manufacturer Sappi Forests said on Tuesday that it had extended its plantation holdings in South Africa with the purchase of the Sjonajona plantation in the Mpumalanga province from Mondi.

The plantation lies between Machadodorp and Barberton and is 14 500 ha in extent, of which 9 400 ha consists predominantly of pine. The company said that the acquisition would bring Sappi's total planted area in Mpumalanga to 143 400 ha out of a total 230 200 ha plantation ownership in the province.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
20th April 2010
Publisher Name: 
Engineering News
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za
Author: 
Loni Prinsloo
Author e-Mail: 
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/author.php?u_id=1034
Reference-Link: 

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/sappi-forests-buys-14-500-ha-pl...

Job cuts come to forest, energy ministries

VICTORIA – The B.C. government issued 294 layoff notices Monday to staff in the forests and energy ministries, and announced it is closing the forests ministry field office in Prince Rupert.

Forests Minister Pat Bell said the Prince Rupert office had been reduced to about 10 staff with harvesting activity at a low ebb in northwestern B.C., and the functions of the office can be handled by the Terrace and Haida Gwaii offices.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
April 12, 2010
Publisher Name: 
BC Local News
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.bclocalnews.com
Author: 
Tom Fletcher
Author e-Mail: 
mailto:tfletcher@blackpress.ca?subject=BC Local News - Job cuts come to forest, energy ministries
Reference-Link: 

http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_cariboo/100milefreepress/news/90703394.html

Filling a Need: Forest Plantations for Bioenergy in the South

The growing number of renewable energy projects in the Southern U.S. utilizing woody biomass will require the development of short-rotation bioenergy plantations.

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