29.08.2011 | WORLD INDUSTRY NEWS | views
The demand for biomass across Europe is huge and is expected to grow
even further as more countries turn their backs on nuclear power.According
to Wood Resources International, the clamour for wood-fuel across the
continent has driven production of wood pellets in the US and Canada.In
...Google to include Amazon forest on Street View
26.08.2011 | WORLD INDUSTRY NEWS | views
Google says it will soon make available images of the Amazon rain forest on its Street View mapping service.
Spokesman Fabio Sabba says Google began taking
photographs of Amazon rivers and trails in a partnership with a local
environmental group called Fundacao Amazonia...Russia — Khimki Forest roads continue to be a target for activists according to EI
18.08.2011 | WORLD INDUSTRY NEWS | views
Ecological Internet maintains that Activists continue to battle road
construction equipment in the old-growth Khimki Forest just outside of
Moscow, setting an example for old forest protectors and global
ecological sustainability protestors globally. For years (according to
Forests...Firefighters put out 7 forest fires in Russia's Far East
15.08.2011 | WORLD INDUSTRY NEWS | views
Firefighters extinguished seven wildfires in the Russian Far East in the past twenty-four hours and are battling three more forest fires in the area, a spokesman for the regional forestry department.Over 80 people and three aircraft are involved in the firefighting effort, the spokesman added...World's Oldest Wood
15.08.2011 | WORLD INDUSTRY NEWS | views
Talk about an old-growth forest. Newly described fossils push back the appearance of wood by at least 10 million years. The fossils, including one from 407-million-years-old rocks in France, preserve the remains of stems about 12 centimeters long. The size and arrangement of cells in the...Timber grows for first time in three years
11.08.2011 | WORLD INDUSTRY NEWS | views
The UK timber industry experienced growth in 2010 for the first time in three years, according to a new report by the Timber Trade Federation (TTF).But a sharp rise in running costs and subdued demand sees many companies continuing to struggle, it warns.The TTF Statistical Review 2011 –...Latvia's wooden furniture export figures revealed
11.08.2011 | WORLD INDUSTRY NEWS | views
Companies with an investment in Latvia have heard details of the country's wooden furniture exports.According
to figures released by the Agriculture Ministry's Forest Resource
Department, the Baltic state saw furniture form 4.6 per cent of its
total timber exports in the first five...Russian sawmills step up lumber production
08.08.2011 | WORLD INDUSTRY NEWS | views
Improved roundwood supplies
enabled Russian sawmills to boost their lumber output by 11.8%
year-over-year to around 1.9 million m³ in June 2011, the Russian
statistical office in Moscow reports. When compared with May 2011 the
output increased by 18.5%. In the first six months...The Wood Veneer Paintings of Rob Milam
04.08.2011 | WORLD INDUSTRY NEWS | views
Using an artform known as “marquetry”, Rob Milam creates beautiful paintings with wood veneer.Marquetry is defined as the composition of an image using natural wood veneer, cut into pieces and glued on a substrate, sort of like a puzzle. Every one of Rob Milam’s marquetry paintings start with...Chinese retailers hijack the Ikea experience
01.08.2011 | WORLD INDUSTRY NEWS | views
Nestled in a sleepy southern district of Kunming city in southwest China, is a 10,000 square meter, four-storey building that could make Swedish furniture giant Ikea uneasy.11
Furniture, as the store is known, copies Ikea's blue and yellow color
scheme, mock-up rooms, miniature pencils,...
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