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Free, downloadable Open Source Wood 3D design objects for BIM and CAD software
Uppdaterad: Tuesday, 10 December, 2019Category: WoodMetsä Wood’s Open Source Wood Initiative and ProdLib, a free library of 3D design models, join forces to make the latest innovation in wood-based construction easily available to everyone. With ProdLib library, you can now download the elements available on Open Source Wood to your design software. / Metsä WoodLäs mer -
Sign up soon: entries for the Better with Less – Design Challenge 2019–2020 close on 5 January
Uppdaterad: Friday, 6 December, 2019Category: The pulp and paper industryThe closing date for the second Better with Less – Design Challenge is approaching, with last entries to be submitted by 5 January 2020. The competition – organised by Metsä Board, the leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards and part of Metsä Group – encourages designers and design students to come up with innovative packaging solutions that will have a positive impact on sustainability. / Metsä BoardLäs mer -
Application period for Metsä Group’s summer jobs begins – real jobs and fair pay
Uppdaterad: Thursday, 5 December, 2019Category: ForestryOne of Finland’s biggest summer job recruitments is getting under way again. In the coming year, Metsä Group will provide a summer job for nearly 900 future professionals. The company is also offering almost 300 summer jobs outside Finland. Metsä Group invests in providing summer employees with guidance for their jobs and support for their learning, offers responsible and diverse tasks and pays fair wages for summer jobs, according to the demands of each task. / MetsäLäs mer -
Södra takes new step to adapt forests to climate change
Uppdaterad: Wednesday, 4 December, 2019Category: EnvironmentSödra is using controlled pollination to breed trees for tomorrow’s forests – a new innovation, where nearly 2 million seedlings are being propagated to produce trees that are healthier and more resilient, with 30 percent faster growth than trees in today’s forests. / SödraLäs mer -
Federal Labor at odds with Victorian Labor on forestry
Uppdaterad: Tuesday, 3 December, 2019Category: ForestryFederal Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Resources Joel Fitzgibbon has strongly backed Victoria’s native forest industries as sustainable, this is at odds with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews who plans to shut it down. / TimberbizLäs mer -
In Finland, hunting is a form of enjoying the wilderness – this is how kids are introduced to it
Uppdaterad: Tuesday, 3 December, 2019Category: Outdoor life & huntingIn the Läyliäinen village in Loppi, about an hour’s drive north-northwest of Helsinki, exceptionally many people know when a dog’s bark signals that it has located an elk. The local hunters’ association has arranged a Hunt Day for the village school sixth-graders for over 20 years. / Finnish Forest AssociationLäs mer -
Strongly positive climate-change impact for Södra
Uppdaterad: Monday, 2 December, 2019Category: EnvironmentAccording to a new report, Södra has a positive impact on global climate change, equivalent to 20 percent of Sweden’s combined emissions of CO₂ equivalents. The measurements are based on the growth rate of forests owned by Södra’s 52,000 members, and the effects of forest products when they are used to replace more emission-intensive products and energy. / SödraLäs mer -
Soil preparation mitigates climate change – annual revenue may be 3.5 percent
Uppdaterad: Tuesday, 26 November, 2019Category: ForestryWhen the soil surface is prepared after regeneration felling for new trees to grow, the new tree generation germinates and starts to grow quickly. Simultaneously, logging residues increase the carbon storage of soil. / Finnish Forest AssociationLäs mer -
TrustShield™, Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s single-use medical fabrics for ultimate protection
Uppdaterad: Wednesday, 6 November, 2019Category: The pulp and paper industryTrustShield™, Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s single-use medical fabrics for ultimate protection in the operating room, clinical environment and laboratory. / Ahlstrom-MunksjöLäs mer -
Unusually large stock of wood in September
Uppdaterad: Tuesday, 5 November, 2019Category: WoodStocks of softwood, pulpwood and pulp chips have fallen since this summer but are nonetheless unusually large for the season. According to the Forestry Agency's stock survey, the total stocks was 9.3 million cubic metres in 30 September this year. That is 34 per cent more than at the same time last year. / Swedish Forest AgencyLäs mer