The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Assurance Services International (ASI), launched a TV loop on FSC-certified teak in June 2022. The analysis of transaction data submitted by the certificate holders included in the scope of…
Komatsu Forest believes sustainability is fundamental to its business and is investing in the future by building a new development department focusing on electrifying forest machines. The company wants to take the lead in the…
Farmers and loggers in Nambuangongo, Angola’s Bengo province, are clearing 800 hectares of forest yearly. Between 2000 and 2020, tree cover declined by 12%, according to Global Forest Watch, and a quarter of that loss…
Third-year architecture and interior design students are working hard on their entries for #WorldsOfDesire, PG Bison’s annual 1.618 Education Initiative competition. The submission deadline is 18 August 2023. Get the full details here – https://www.woodbizafrica.co.za/june-2023-issue-27/#june-2023-issue-27/6/
Woodworking machine manufacturing specialist Wood-Mizer recently installed a heavy-duty, high recovery, and reduced labour industrial sawmill system at Nelson Wood Shims, the largest shim manufacturer in North America. The system features a TV6000 twin vertical…
Terragrn has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mpumalanga’s Manala Mgibe Community Property Association (CPA), representing the Manala Mgibe community and Traditional Council to transform about 200,000ha of unused land in Mpumalanga into a $2bn…
Blaming indiscriminate harvesting of public and private forests, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has revoked all timber export licenses and permits, effectively banning exports of timber from the East African country. Read the full story…
Sappi Southern Africa and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) announced the launch of the Sappi Chair in Climate Change and Plantation Sustainability headed by Prof Mary Scholes. The intervention will advance the capacity to…
While visitors at the Malaysian Wood Expo (MWE 2023) networked with industry organisations, exhibitors and each other, the Malaysian Timber Council (MTC) and the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) were behind the scenes matching…
Bruce Breedt, the chief executive of the South African Wood Preservers Association (SAWPA), reports that the organisation has delayed South African regulations that falsely label CCA a banned substance and that trade in the wood…
