Metsä Group has scheduled several planned annual maintenance shutdowns at its pulp mills for the autumn of 2019. At Rauma, the shutdown took place on week 36...... [mais...]
Trimble announced today that it has acquired 3LOG Systems, Inc., a leading supplier of timber management software solutions. The acquisition complements Trimble's forestry business software portfolio and further expands the Trimble Connected Forest™ solutions ...... [mais...]
In Estonia process for logs and pulpwood kept o falling in July. Only pine- and hardwood-log prices were increasing against June. Apart from pine all softwood log prices have ...... [mais...]
Sawlog prices in Sweden decreased by 2.8% during the second quarter compared to the first quarter of 2019. At the same time, pulpwood prices were relatively unchanged. Sawlog prices turned down during the first quarter of the year after ...... [mais...]
Lower prices for pulp, improved weather for logging and healthy production levels at many sawmills in the US were all factors which resulted in lower wood fiber costs in most regions throughout Canada and the US in the 2Q/19, reports the ...... [mais...]
UPM Raflatac has unveiled a new wood-based polypropylene film material into the market - an industry first, as the company claims. The UPM Raflatac Forest Film™ label material has been developed in collaboration with UPM Biofuels using UPM BioVerno naphtha ...... [mais...]
On 26 April2019 Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, announced that it will launch pre-engineering for the first phase of the planned renewal of its Husum pulp mill in Sweden. The first phase of the renewal consists of a new recovery boiler and a new turbine. Metsä Board estimated ...... [mais...]
As usual, the roundwood trade in Finland slowed down in July. Roundwood purchases included in the statistics amounted to 1.7 million cubic metres from non-industrial private forests. The volume went down two fifths from the previous month and was ...... [mais...]
Karl-Henrik Sundström has informed Stora Enso’s Board of Directors that he is leaving the position of CEO. The Board has initiated the search process for a successor. Karl-Henrik Sundström will continue in his current role for the time being and will leave Stora Enso during ...... [mais...]
Metsä Board’s Kyro mill is to begin using artificial intelligence for quality management on its folding boxboard machine. Supplied by Voith, the software uses measurement results related to the quality properties of and the mill’s process data. By combining various process ...... [mais...]
