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Issue date: 
09/01/2013

World's largest pulp complex opens in Brazil

The largest forestry and pulp complex has begun operations in southern Brazil, highlighting the country's booming forestry sector.

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January 2nd, 2013

Australia - New Forests to purchase Gunns mills

New Forests announced yesterday that it has completed an agreement to purchase Gunns’ sawmilling, sales, and distribution business from the Receiver, KordaMentha. New Forests will acquire all the assets of Gunns Timber Products (GTP), including the Bell Bay and Tarpeena sawmills.

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January 2nd, 2013

North American lumber prices forecast to soar in 2013

New five-year outlook shows that supply and demand conditions in wood products for the long-awaited ‘super-cycle’ are now taking hold, with the full impact still some 3+ years away!

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Dec 20, 2012

Mayr Melnhof Karton to Acquire Sodra’s Follafoss mill

Södra and Mayr Melnhof Karton have signed a Letter of Intent where Mayr Melnhof Karton intends to purchase 100% of the shares in Södra Cell Folla AS and thereby take over Södra’s pulp mill in Follafoss.

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Dec 20, 2012

Tropical Pulp Still a Long Way From Fiction in German Children's Books

A WWF-Germany survey of children's books found about 30 per cent of books contained significant amounts of mixed tropical hardwood fibres characteristic of natural forest destruction.

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December 10th, 2012

TPT Forests export market report

With their recent burst of enthusiasm Chinese buyers are now feeling more positive about 2013 prospects, with the common perception that the newly announced Government Leaders have little choice but to modestly stimulate the economy while new policy is put in place.

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December 10th, 2012

US housing boosts lumber not logs

Housing starts in the US jumped to 894,000 units in October. This was 19 percent higher than in August, and as much as 42 percent more than in October of last year.

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Dec 11, 2012

Mondi Syktyvkar Awarded EU Ecolabel for All Uncoated Fine Papers Produced at the Mill

Mondi Syktyvkar in Komi, Russia was recently awarded the EU Ecolabel for all papers produced at the mill. The EU Ecolabel is a certificate issued by the European Union, which verifies the environmental profile of a product or service.

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SCA Forest Products and Heinzel Group Co-operate in Sales and Marketing

Sundsvall, Sweden, Dec 19, 2012 - The Heinzel Group will acquire SCA’s publication paper mill in Laakirchen, Austria.

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21 November, 2012

Certifying Vietnam’s timber plantations would help smallholders profit from lucrative export market

f Vietnam wants its timber producers to benefit from the growing eco-conscious and more lucrative international furniture market, national forest institutions should look for ways to get smallholder plantation forests certified, said Louis Putzel, a senior scientist at the Center for Internationa

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by Dr. Radut