A pilot at the company's new sawline showed that up to 4% of the volume from final fellings can move from pulpwood to sawn products.
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The Tla'amin-owned Qwoqwnes takes over Tree Farm Licence 39 near Powell River, British Columbia, with an allowable annual cut of 469,200 cubic meters, and will sell timber back to Western under a long-term fiber supply agreement.
Metsä Group had earlier suspended wood purchases from the data center sites over doubts about the timber's origin, and Finland's supervisory agency halted preparatory work at Muhos and Kajaani in October.
Finland's competition authority cleared the deal without conditions. Kuhmo saws about 500,000 m3 of lumber a year and employs 180 people.
The largest grant, $7.7 million, will expand pallet production from low-grade wood as the state tries to shore up demand for timber from its private forests.
Kastamonu Entegre and Yıldız Entegre received the largest fines.
Stronger softwood lumber markets lifted prices while New Brunswick softwood volumes fell; Acadian expects sawlog demand and prices to remain stable until end-use markets improve.
Sawlog deliveries rose 4% while sawmill margins stayed under pressure; Sveaskog expects lower log prices to gradually improve sawmills’ conditions, with some delay.
The publicly owned mill expects the shutdown to last about two months, until frozen ground lets crews reach hemlock stands.
An amendment in force since October 22 lets the Korea Forest Service give national forest timber to state bodies and forestry public institutions for wood construction and research.
The change aims to raise value from Holmen's own forest land and secure wood for its mills; no job cuts are planned.
The roughly 60,000 hectares of mainly radiata pine plantations in the Maule region make up almost 5% of CMPC's forestland.
A preliminary aerial survey found more than 2.5 million tons of timber destroyed or damaged in Conecuh, Escambia and Monroe counties.
Larch remains in short supply, while the construction sector is in its eighth year of recession.
The party also promises faster permits and compensation for licensees when tenure is reallocated.
The Forest Service has sold more than 3 billion board feet of timber this year.
The company received timber from construction sites in Kajaani and Muhos through Finnish forest management associations and filed a complaint against its supplier.
The facility has an annual capacity of 220,000 tonnes and represents an investment of Euro 1.37 billion.
Götaland records the largest monthly decline, while applications for montane forest felling increase.
The most extensive scenario could affect wood volumes equal to annual use at one to two pulp mills and 15 industrial sawmills.