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Nautilus
Earlier this year, Dan Doctoroff, the C.E.O. of Sidewalk Labs, Google’s sibling company under Alphabet, answered a question about what his company “actually does” during a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session, replying, “The short answer is: We want to build the first truly 21st-century city.” Quayside, a Toronto neighborhood the company is developing in partnership with a Canadian tri-government agency, is the first step toward Doctoroff’s goal.
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Tennessee Department of Agriculture
The south is renowned for producing some of the highest quality forest products in the world, but getting those products to market can be a challenge. The upcoming Southern Forest Products Export Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, offers solutions for businesses looking to grow. The conference will feature a world-class panel of experts discussing the challenges and opportunities of exporting forest products from inland states. United States Department of Agriculture Under Secretary Ted McKinney and Canadian Consul General Nadia Theodore are among the distinguished guest speakers who will address trade issues.
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Forest Business Network
Deadline for the call for speakers for the 2019 International Mass Timber Conference is Wednesday, Oct. 31. View the speaker submission form here and nominate your presentation today.
International Forest Industries
Russia is one of the world’s dominant log and lumber producers and exporters. Due to its immense land mass, roughly half of which is forested, Russia accounts for nearly 20 percent of the world’s standing forest resource — nearly 82 billion m3 out of a global standing stock of roughly 434 billion m3. With this tremendous resource, Russia ranks as one of the world’s major players in the global trade of timber and wood products.
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The Seattle Times
Called both a science and an art by those in the profession, silviculture is the practice of growing, managing and protecting healthy and sustainable forests.
While growing trees may seem straightforward at first glance, sustainable forestry practices are actually very complex and require patience, foresight and maintaining close attention to the entire landscape – not only the trees growing on it.
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UMass Lowell
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to a team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Maine and Florida-based Mainstream Engineering Corp. to develop renewable fuel additives made from “woody biomass” – particularly sawdust from sawmills.
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Archinet
The timber tower scheme was designed by Milwaukee-based Korb + Associates Architects with structural engineering input from Thornton Tomasetti. If completed as proposed, the 21-story residential building would rise 238 feet—considerably more than the currently tallest timber building in the Americas.
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KFBB-TV
According to new report available with Million Insights, the wood adhesives industry is estimated to grow at a significant CAGR of 4.5 percent over the forecast period as the scope and its applications are rising enormously across the globe.
Global Wood Adhesives Market is expected to reach USD 6.18 billion by 2025. Wood adhesives are also termed as wood glue that strongly bonds sections of wood together by means of surface attachments.
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Arch Daily
The design and construction community is revolutionizing the way we think about wood in construction. Growing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, coupled with a desire for aesthetically appealing designs, have resulted in a wood momentum that is being celebrated by architects and engineers around the world.
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CMFE News
The key players that are at the forefront of competition in the global wood preservative chemicals marketare BASF SE, Koppers Inc., Lonza Group, Lanxess, Troy Corporation, Safeguard Europe Ltd., Rütgers Organics GmbH, Rio Tinto Borates, and Kurt Obermeier GmbH.
As per estimates of Transparency Market Research, the global wood preservative chemicals market was worth US $1,663.2 mn in 2016. Expanding at a CAGR of 3.7 percent between 2017 and 2025, the market is expected to attain a value of US $2,284.2 mn by 2025.
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