No matter how high-tech the sawmill, preparing a kiln-dried workpiece for the market usually involves a few standard processes – ripping or edging, cross-cutting, and planing. When it comes to cross-cutting, especially if there is…
Large-scale industrial solar panel installations provide tremendous cost-cutting benefits for sawmills, wood processing plants, and furniture manufacturers. There is no better time than now to capitalise on solar technologies. Running a sustainable business is challenging…
The Mpumalanga Green Cluster Agency says South Africa ranks as one of the top 15 nations in the world in driving the green growth agenda – ahead of Australia, Singapore, and Finland. The agency attributes…
Research on the effect of tree and harvester size on productivity and harvester investment decisions demonstrates that the difference in productivity rates largely negates the difference in ownership and operating expenses between larger and smaller…
The PEFC Board of Directors has appointed Dr Michael Berger to succeed Ben Gunneberg as the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) secretary-general/CEO. “Michael will be an engaged, responsive, and dedicated leader for…
Wood-Mizer pulled out the stops at Grain SA’s Nampo Harvest Day 2022, the largest agricultural expo in the Southern Hemisphere! According to Toit Wessels, Grain SA’s assistant manager for marketing and Nampo, about 73,000 visitors…
Leroy Robbert operates the KDT beam saw at Boards for Africa and, after 18 months, remains amazed at the speed and reliability of the machine he has renamed “fast and furious”. The company has ordered…
The recently launched Innovus Spirit finish, designed to complement Sonae Arauco’s woodgrains set, combines the elements of “Matching Life” with contemporary interior decorative applications. Spirit is an exclusive finish that appears full of movement and…
Sonae Arauco’s Innovus MFC decorative product range has won the Green Product Award 2022 in the Interior and Lifestyle category of the much anticipated annual awards in Munich, Germany. Nils Bader founded the Green Product…
An independent and verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) analysis of Sonae Arauco’s wood-based decorative panels confirms that in 2021 it retained 3,5-million tonnes of carbon dioxide in the products supplied to customers in over 75…
