With almost 70 years of expertise in complex engineering, heavy fabrication, and machining for its range of material handling equipment, Bell Equipment is now offering these specialist services to all industries through its newly formed…
Bell Equipment Limited appointed Ashley Jon Bell, grandson of the company’s founder Irvine Bell, as the new Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective 1 January 2024 Read the full story here – https://www.woodbizafrica.co.za/november-december-2023-issue-32/#november-december-2023-issue-32/46/
Speaking at Focus on Forestry in October 2023, Peet van Staden, Wood-Mizer’s senior industrial product specialist, said sawmilling is vital to the forestry value chain. However, it remains lagging in emerging markets. It has, in…
African Biomass Company (ABC) has furthered the development of biomass products such as wood chips, biofuel, and mulch in the agriculture and forestry industries of South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa over the past two decades.…
The weather tried to put a damper on proceedings by dishing up rain and mist, but foresters are a determined and passionate bunch. Over 300 local and international delegates attended the Focus on Forestry conference…
There is a looming shortage of wood in Africa, and large-scale industrial forestry is not the solution. In three decades, 185,000 ha of industrial plantations were established in sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, with investments…
Joy Crane writes that a recent conversation with Duane Roothman, Vice President of Sappi Forests, took an unexpected turn. Instead of a carefully curated set of corporate statements about the company’s vision, mission and achievements,…
The success of the performance-based standards (PBS) trucks in South Africa’s forestry and other heavy freight industries is undeniable. However, nearly four years after the pilot study ended, the national transport department is still prevaricating…
STIHL is celebrating the release of its new FS 161 (1.5kW and 37.6cc) and the FS 291 (2.0kW and 41.6cc) brushcutter models across the globe. They replaced the iconic FS 160 and FS 280 machines,…
Ambassadors from 17 countries sent a letter to the European Union (EU) Commission and parliament officials describing the regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) as an “inherently discriminatory and punitive unilateral benchmarking system that is potentially…
