Mondi Rotatrim, Mondi’s copy paper brand, and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) have partnered with Pick ’n Pay’s School Club and produced an illustrated workbook on the forest value chain for Grade 6 learners. The…
Q&A with Willem Oosthuizen For 29 years, the services of a small South African company are frequently mentioned in fire risk mitigation. WoodBiz Africa interviewed Willem Oosthuizen of Alasia Marketing about the company’s indispensable product,…
The Northern Hemisphere is experiencing its hottest summer in recorded history. In Sub-Sahara Africa, tree growers await extreme summer conditions with the arrival of El Niño. In West Africa, a Ghanaian company, FORM Ghana, is…
Stepping up as a pioneering provider of Forestry Rental Solutions in South Africa, AFGRI Equipment is launching a premier machinery rental service. There is choice of rental opportunities to enable customers to leverage cutting-edge forestry…
Wood-Mizer’s three stands at the Ligna 2023 trade show in Germany presented various new solutions and machines for turning logs into finished products profitably. Read the full story here – https://www.woodbizafrica.co.za/june-2023-issue-27/#june-2023-issue-27/22/
On 2 July, Kenya’s President William Ruto ended an almost six-year moratorium on logging in the country’s commercial forests, leaving the ban on logging indigenous forests in place. In 2018, as deputy president, Ruto announced a 90-day ban…
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…
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…
