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RW Freight
North American overseas pellet exports increased for the third consecutive quarter in the 4Q/15, rising 7 percent from the previous quarter. In the 4Q/15, total Canadian pellet overseas exports increased by 17 percent from the previous quarter with exports increasing to both Europe and Asia. On a regional basis, British Columbia exports continued to shift slightly towards Asia, with a slight reduction in exports to to Europe. In the 4Q/15, shipping from Eastern Canada, albeit still in small volumes, rose to its highest level in almost two years.
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FPS
Mass timber construction is growing in markets where wood hasn't been used for years — mid- to high-rise buildings. Under the theme "New Horizons for the Forest Products Industry," the Forest Products Society (FPS), the global network for forest products professionals, will host the 70th International Convention Monday through Wednesday, June 27-29, in Portland, Oregon, highlighting a focused discussion among the global forest products community being conducted to develop cross-laminated timber and other products to support this emerging demand.
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FPS
The Forest Products Society and Forest Products and Timber Construction Department — Salzburg University of Applied Sciences a will jointly host the fourth edition of the Processing Technologies for the Forest and Biobased Products Industries Conference (PTF BPI), Oct. 25-26 in St. Simons Island, Georgia.
The conference is dedicated to the exchange of information and ideas about research on process technologies, quality control, and process improvement. Contemporary topics on real-time predictive modeling of processes, continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, lean six-sigma and advanced data mining will be presented at the conference.
Woodworking Network
Wood is currently trending in retail, with stores vying to showcase the latest and greatest in fixtures. Timber products has several partnerships with retailers, such as Leggett & Platt and West Coast Fixtures, and supplies them with wood products that they use to make unique and eye-catching retail fixtures.
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Biomass Magazine
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the availability of $21 million in funding through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative to support the development of regional systems in sustainable bioenergy and biobased products, as well as education and training for the next generation of scientists.
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Albany Herald
Scott Howell calls it "the hidden industry," but, he notes, forestry is the second-largest industry in the state of Georgia. Howell, a property services manager for Albany-based F&W Forestry Services, shared with the Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County recently some figures that demonstrate forestry's impact on the state’s economy. He said the industry has a $23.6 billion impact and provides more than 108,000 jobs. There are 151 wood-processing facilities in the state that use more than 45 million tons of wood annually.
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news.com.au
Australia's forestry and wood products sector requires more investment and planning if it is to take advantage of growing global demand for fibre, paper and packaging, construction materials and biofuels. A report prepared for Forest and Wood Products Australia says that, as the global population grows and becomes wealthier, demand for wood fiber will increase strongly.
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Natural Resources Defense Council
The European Union finally recognizes that burning trees from U.S. forests are not carbon-neutral, but how will they amend European renewables policy in response? The following is a guest blog by Kenneth Richter, a Germany-based consultant to Natural Resources Defense Council who has worked on biomass issues for eight years.
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Woodworking Network
Tens of thousands of U.S. businesses — including wood manufacturers and their suppliers — will be affected when new changes to the wage and hour rules take effect Dec. 1. The Department of Labor has amended the annual earnings threshold for employees to qualify for overtime pay — known as exempt status — from $23,660 to $47.476, a 101 percent jump. This would require employers either to increase pay, or change the status of any employee earning less $47,476 to "non-exempt status," which under the Fair Labor Standards Act means they would get overtime pay.
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Mongabay
The Indonesian forestry ministry is on board with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's plan to ban new oil palm permits, and has rejected all outstanding requests to establish plantations in the forest zone, a ministry official said on Friday. Sixty-one palm oil companies have had their proposals rejected, sparing a total of 851,000 hectares of land from conversion, according to the San Afri Awang, the ministry's head of governance and planning. That's 12 times the size of Singapore.
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Mongabay
Fifteen years after making it the law of the land, Central African country Gabon has formally adopted a new guidance document produced by local communities and civil society groups that aims to help communities receive a share of profits from commercial timber harvesting.
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