Africa Biomass Company (ABC) has been a pioneer in developing biomass processing equipment and products such as wood chips, biofuel, and mulch in both the agriculture and forestry industries of South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa…
John Deere’s new large-size class 20-ton 2010H and 25-ton 2510H forwarders offer 25% more load capacity and share the same new engine space, and their hoods were designed with BMW Design Works. The twin-motor driveline…
John Deere has launched a novel two-roller harvester head for hardwood and softwood applications that are fully compatible with the new large-class H Series harvesters and tracked harvesters. It replaces the H270 head. The H216…
Compared to the G Series, the new H Series harvesters enable significantly increased productivity and remarkably lower fuel consumption per harvested cubic meter. John Deere is a frontrunner in setting new production system standards in…
John Deere is rolling out its first H Series wheeled cut-to-length forest machine models. The large-size class machine models – the 1270H and 1470H harvesters and the new 20-ton load capacity class 2010H and 25-ton…
A forest of officials attended the recent handover of the Mission, Nqamakwe and Mgomanzi plantations to the Tobotshane, Amahlubi and Amazizi traditional councils in Butterworth, Eastern Cape by the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the…
A new study reveals compelling evidence that forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in Gabon and the Republic of Congo have more larger mammals and critically endangered species, such as gorillas and elephants,…
FSC forest management certification is back on the cards for Zimbabwe after taking a backseat for almost 15 years, largely due to severe economic challenges, such as hyperinflation, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate,…
“I realised there was money in wood when I saw a Wood-Mizer sawmill cutting a log,” says Krishna Wood Sawmill managing director Jinajunga Borisomoya. The former transport company owner delivered logs to sawmills in Kolwezi,…
The Forestry South Africa (FSA) online seminar in March provided a platform for a few of the forestry sector’s leading researchers and industry representatives to present an overview of the cross-disciplinary FSA-funded research programmes and…
