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    Wood – a sustainable material

    Being renewable, recyclable, resource-efficient, and carbon-neutral, wood as a material has a given place in a sustainable society. When managed sustainably, forests are able to provide society with an inexhaustible source of renewable raw material. At the same time, growing forests sequester carbon dioxide, thus reducing the content of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Once a wood-based product, this product store carbon during its life-time, and at the end of its life, it can often be re-used or recycled and made into new wood-based products or for energy purposes.

    Wood is also a resource-efficient material. Very little waste is generated during the manufacturing of timber and wood-based products, as almost all by-products (such as bark, sawdust, and cut-offs) are used, whether as a raw material for the pulp and paper industry, for the production of particleboards, or as a source of energy for heating. 

     

    The Swedish woodworking industry

    Today, the largest share of the Swedish production of wood products is exported. World-wide, Sweden is the third largest exporter of sawn timber. In Europe, the Swedish sawmilling industry holds a prominent position as the second-largest producer and the largest exporter of sawn softwood. As construction material, wood has a long tradition in Sweden. During the last decade, building with wood has experienced an upswing thanks to developments in modern building techniques.  

     

    Read more:
    Swedish Wood – facts, information, and inspiration relating to wood, wood products and wood construction
    Swedish Federation of Forest Industries – facts and figures on Swedish forest industry  
    Swedish Statistical Yearbook of Forestry – with statistics on Swedish forest industry production 

     

    • Mapping The Course: Timberland, Forest Products Processing, And Fiber Issues For 2020

      Publicerad: Monday, 16 September, 2019 - 09:52
      Etiketter: Wood
      Attend this conference for in-depth analysis on forest products market challenges, opportunities, and threats for 2020 in the North American West Coast timberland region. / WFCA
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    • Bergs Timber applies for an increased production permit for the sawmill in Mörlunda

      Publicerad: Monday, 9 September, 2019 - 14:13
      Etiketter: Wood
      Bergs Timber started sawmill production in Mörlunda 100 years ago. The sawmill has developed over the years. For one period of time, it consisted of three saw lines and several production lines for planing of different products. In 2012 and 2013, major changes were made with staff reductions. At the same time, an investment was made which made it possible to focus on small log sawing. The conversion to small log sawing and planing has been successful and the Mörlunda plant has had a good financial development. In 2018, we also invested in a new boiler, which has had a good effect. / Bergs Timber
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    • Wood fiber costs declined for many North American pulpmills during the first half of 2019

      Publicerad: Thursday, 5 September, 2019 - 08:26
      Etiketter: Wood
      Wood fiber costs declined for many North American pulpmills during the first half of 2019, with the exception of the US South, where wood fiber prices increased to their highest levels in over three years, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review. / Wood Resources International LLC
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    • Open Source Wood challenge: large wall panel connections

      Publicerad: Tuesday, 3 September, 2019 - 14:05
      Etiketter: Wood
      Metsä Wood’s Open Source Wood is an open platform developed to connect people and innovation in the wood construction industry. Open Source Wood gathers ideas and designs from all corners of the globe and makes them available for all, free of charge. We believe the only way to grow wood use in construction is to share knowledge. / Metsä Wood
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    • Green construction and living in Norway

      Publicerad: Monday, 2 September, 2019 - 14:16
      Etiketter: Wood
      Verksbyen, a new green neighbourhood in Fredrikstad in Norway, showcases the future of sustainable living. As part of the project, construction company Arca Nova Bolig is building five five-storey apartment buildings situated in Capjon Park area in Verskbyen. The buildings are being constructed using Metsä Wood’s Kerto® LVL (laminated veneer lumber) products – making the construction fast, light and green. / Metsä Wood
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    • Cranleigh School’s new building combines steel frame and wood elements

      Publicerad: Tuesday, 13 August, 2019 - 16:04
      Etiketter: Wood
      Cranleigh School in Surrey in the United Kingdom was established in 1865. As part of the historic school’s campus development project, two old buildings have been renovated and turned into the van Hasselt Centre – a new building with teaching space and a café. / Metsä Wood
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    • Prices for hardwood chips exported from Latin America were up 15%

      Publicerad: Tuesday, 13 August, 2019 - 16:01
      Etiketter: Wood
      Tight supply of hardwood fiber in the Pacific Rim have pushed prices for Latin American hardwood chips upward during the first half of 2019, reports the WRQ. However, a decline in chip consumption in China is expected to occur in the second half of the year, which would likely end the most recent price rally that started in mid-2018. / Wood Resources International
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    • Timber construction to upskill workers

      Publicerad: Tuesday, 2 July, 2019 - 13:48
      Etiketter: Wood
      The Australian construction industry needs to focus more on industry skilling and the enabling of modern construction enterprise capability, a leading construction industry expert has warned. / Timberbiz
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    • Forestry Corp NSW acquires 2000 hectares of pine

      Publicerad: Tuesday, 2 July, 2019 - 11:34
      Etiketter: Wood
      More than 2000 hectares of southern pine plantations near Grafton are now in public hands, after Forestry Corporation of NSW bought the timber rights to plantations established under contract for a private company. General Manager of Forestry Corporation’s Softwood Plantations Division Mike Beardsell said the purchase delivered a long-term boost to timber production in the region. / Timberbiz
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    • Drone assisted assessments of pine plantations

      Publicerad: Monday, 1 July, 2019 - 08:53
      Etiketter: Wood
      Trials of drone-assisted survival assessments of pine plantations are off to a flying start near Bunbury, Western Australia. Operations Officer Markus Streil said the current trials use small drones to take photos of re-established plantations and hundreds of images are then uploaded to a cloud service to create a range of models of the plantation. / Timberbiz
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