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Publicerad: Friday, 18 January, 2019 - 16:01
Category: Forestry
Södra is adjusting the purchase price for spruce and pine logs as well as fuel wood. We are seeing a slowdown in the economy at the same time as wood supplies are high and forestry activity is intense. As a result, the market price of saw logs is declining. / Södra
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Publicerad: Thursday, 17 January, 2019 - 10:49
Category: Wood
Sawlog prices have increased in the local currency in Brazil in 2018 thanks to higher demand for lumber from the overseas markets, reports the WRQ. Prices for pulplogs have also gone up slightly this year despite regional oversupplies of logs. With alternative land-uses becoming more attractive, future available of pulplogs might be restricted in some regions of Brazil in the future. / Wood Resources International
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Publicerad: Thursday, 17 January, 2019 - 10:46
Category: Forestry
The New South Wales forestry industry will have access to about 340,000 cubic metres of quality saw logs annually from native forests over the next five years under the recommitted 20-year regional forest agreements. More than 1 million cubic metres of non-high quality logs will also be available from native forests annually under the sustainable yield estimates of the three RFAs – the North East, Eden and Southern regions. / Timberbiz
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Publicerad: Thursday, 17 January, 2019 - 10:35
Category: Forestry
Södra welcomes Clerk, the company’s first digital robot employee. Clerk is a software robot that works in six departments and uses its expertise in everyday, repetitive and time-consuming tasks. With Clerk’s help, Södra’s employees can devote their days to more value-creating activities. / Södra
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Publicerad: Wednesday, 16 January, 2019 - 16:24
Category: Forestry
Södra is one of the main sponsors of Introduce a Girl to Engineering day (IGEday) — an initiative by the organisation Womengineer that aims to increase interest in technology and engineering among teenage girls./ Södra
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Publicerad: Wednesday, 16 January, 2019 - 16:12
Category: Forestry
The notified area of final felling continued to rise in December, with an increase by 16 percent compared to the same month last year. In the region Central Sweden, the December figures were the highest in over ten years, according to the latest monthly statistics. / Swedish Forest Agency
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Publicerad: Wednesday, 16 January, 2019 - 16:01
Category: Forestry
Why does damage caused by spruce bark beetle increase during extremely hot and dry summers? How can growth in young and middle-aged forest be strengthened? These are a few of the questions for which researchers received grants to conduct further studies. / Södra
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Publicerad: Tuesday, 15 January, 2019 - 10:06
Category: The pulp and paper industry
Holmen’s Iggesund and Workington paperboard mills have received the highest rating for sustainability in a 2018 assessment by CSR analysis company EcoVadis. This means both paperboard mills are among the top one per cent of all companies evaluated by EcoVadis. / Holmen
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Publicerad: Tuesday, 15 January, 2019 - 08:49
Category: Forestry
To reach sustainability, we should consider what kind of world we actually want. Policies that are designed to control progress at molecular level will in practice prevent innovation and solutions, writes Lena Ek. / Finnish Forest Association
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Publicerad: Thursday, 10 January, 2019 - 15:51
Category: The pulp and paper industry
SCA’s recruitment of summer workers in the Sundsvall region is in full swing. And demand is substantial – 200 new employees need to be recruited. / SCA
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