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International Paper India has opened state-of-the-art machinery at Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Ltd (APPM), Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. It has invested Rs100 crore in the machinery to increase the conversion capacity [...]

Norske Skog has said it would remove 450,000 tonnes of newsprint capacity, which amounts to around 7% of the firm's total global production capacity. According to the firm, an increasingly [...]

Director of transportation and logistics www.ifpcorp.com The biggest issue facing exporters in 2008 will be managing a highly volatile freight market. Capacity is tight; carriers are restructuring services on short [...]

UPM is to increase the uses of recovered paper at its Kaipola mill in Finland, as part of a pounds 12m (EUR18m) investment. Its de-inking capacity will increase to 210,000 [...]

Timber frame specialist Stewart Milne has increased production capacity at its Aberdeen factory by over a third. The Scottish-based company, which two years ago expanded south of the border with [...]

SUPPLY OF THAT fragile commodity known as market confidence has been growing over the course of the fourth quarter, according to feedback from MDF experts. Capacity utilisation rates have continued [...]

SUMMARY * Steico's Czarnkow site covers 37ha. * The company has developed Steicojoist and Steicowall. * It has the capacity to produce 50 million metres per year. * The products [...]

Alabama * Huntsville International Airport announced plans for an $87 million expansion that will increase the airport's passenger capacity. Construction begins this fall and will take five years. * Automotive [...]

SUMMARY * The Forrestar brand is being replaced with Lumin. * Four UK distributors have been signed up to sell the plywood products. * The eucalyptus grandis reaches maturity within [...]

BROOKS BROS UK Ltd has increased storage capacity by 25% at its Skelmersdale site with specially designed Combilift forklifts helping keep aisle widths to a minimum. Three 4-way C5000SL trucks [...]

CUT AND EDGED board supplier Space-Build has doubled its capacity following an investment in beam saw and edge-banding technology. The Huddersfield company, which supplies to housebuilders, shopfitters, and kitchen manufacturers, [...]

SCA TIMBER plans to more than double production capacity at its Tunadal sawmill by investing 17.6m [pounds sterling] in a new automatic grading mill. It will replace two existing grading [...]

A WEEKE BHC360 CNC machining centre has allowed specialist joinery firm Poundall Joinery Manufacturers to increase its bespoke product offering and open up new markets. Nottingham-based Poundall said the machine [...]

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Situated in Mechelen, near Antwerp in Belgium, Martal boasts one of Europe's biggest stocks of American and European 'luxury hardwoods'. 'We believe we've selected the best suppliers in [...]

Norske Skog's Skogn mill achieved a new roll wrapping capacity record of 190 rolls/ hour in October 2007. The record was accomplished by following Metso Paper's Onesider technology and an all-electric system.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SCA FOREST Products is to invest 7.4m [pounds sterling] in a new window component manufacturing facility at its sawmill in Munksund, Sweden. The plant is to have a [...]

DW Mouldings has further expanded its moulding capabilities after investing around 130,000 [pounds sterling] in a Weinig Unimat 3000. The installation brings the Bedfordshire-based company's investments in moulding facilities to [...]

SCA Timber AB is set to increase its total production capacity by around 10%, to 1.7 million [m.sup.3], with the purchase of a minority shareholding in timber products manufacturer Jamtlamell. [...]

North American pulp and paper capacity in 2005 is down by almost 5 million tons, affecting more than 40 mills, according to an annual review by Forestweb Inc., a consulting [...]

Many changes have taken place in the Nordic forest industry over the past decade. These include the emergence of new companies and mergers of existing ones, increases in production, particularly [...]

Gunns Ltd plans to grow its woodchip volumes by about a million tonnes a year by [...]

Finnish forest industry production was up nearly 8% compared to a year ago, according to newly-published [...]

Forest products play an integral role in everyone's life. Tissue paper, magazines, building materials, and furniture are just a few of the many items that come from forest products and [...]

FORCHEM OY of Finland plans to increase production and invest in both basic production and equipment for new products this year. The company says its tall oil products sold well [...]

Ainsworth Lumber Co is set to increase OSB production by 25% with the US$193m acquisition of Voyageur Panel Ltd in Barwick, [...]

AFTER A strong first nine months, the European MDF industry is set for another year of record production, according to the European Panel Federation (EPF). Speaking at the Batimat construction [...]