Baillie Lumber Style 2018

Editor’s pickFinding the voice of Murray River –designing the Cobram Library and Learning Centre

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The Murray River and its surrounding landscape must have a special place in the hearts of the residents living in Cobram, Australia. When plans were drawn to construct the Cobram Library and Learning Centre several years ago, it was decided that the local community must be involved. From the start, community stakeholders had an active hand in envisioning and building their library-to-be, …

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Cobram Library, CohenLeigh Architects, Australia, Cobram

Editor’s pickAmazon makes first major investment in prefabricated housing

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As Amazon announced their investment in a prefabricated housing start-up, factory-built homes may just become the next voice-controlled, super-efficient must-have in the future. Cheaper and quicker to build than traditional housing, modular homes are viewed as a solution to housing shortage.  To top it off, Amazon seems keen to ensure the homes of the future are fully-compatible with the …

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Amazon, Alexa fund, prefabricated housing start-up, integrated smart solutions, Plant Prefab

Editor’s pickWood-Mizer introduces high-production WM4500 industrial sawmill

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Wood-Mizer introduces the WM4500 industrial sawmill featuring several structural and performance enhancements to the sawmill head and bed for improved sawing productivity. As Wood-Mizer’s next generation flagship industrial sawmill, the all-new WM4500 continues a long tradition of providing commercial sawmilling equipment solutions throughout the world. Featuring many benefits of …

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Wood-Mizer, WM4500 industrial sawmill

Editor’s pickThe Heart in Ikast

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C.F. Møller Architects is behind this project next to the International School Ikast-Brande with a much-awaited expansion which includes several halls, multi-functional and educational facilities. The project enhances the educational facilities at the school, and creates a new meeting point in Ikast, an area of fast growth in Vestergade, Denmark. ‘Hjertet’ (the Heart) is an …

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‘Hjertet’ (the Heart), C.F. Møller Architects, Vestergade, Denmark

Editor’s pickShanghai International Furniture Machinery & Woodworking Machinery Fair. closes with a bang

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If the expectations were that the operators would decide the success of this upgraded fair development, then the bet has definitely been won. From 9 to 13 September, at the same time as CIFF Shanghai 2018, two pavilions of the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) in Hongqiao hosted the first edition of the Shanghai International Furniture Machinery & …

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CIFF Shanghai, China, Shanghai

News

Slower revenue growth for Russian forest products companies

Total revenue of the 10 biggest Russian forest products companies in 2017 amounted to RUB339.4bn (US$5.1bn), according to the annual Top 50 Russian forest-based sector companies rating published by Lesnaya Industriya magazine. The top three leaders of the rating remains unchanged: Ilim Group, Mondi Syktyvkar and Segezha Group. The Ilim Group …


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Montana State University faculty awarded $1 million grant to research tree …

BOZEMAN - As bark beetles continue to devour sickly pine forests, a Montana State University plant physiologist and ecologist wants to better understand how trees are able to defend themselves amidst a warming climate, drought conditions and hungry insects. Amy Trowbridge, assistant professor in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental …


Sterling Lumber to build $30 million cross-laminated timber plant

Sterling Lumber Co., a maker of wood mats, pallets, skids, and lagging lumber, is set to build a new plant in Lufkin, Texas – to produce its TerraLam cross-laminated timber (CLT) mats. An estimated 150 jobs will be created. According to Woodworking Network, an injection of $825,000 from the Texas Enterprise Fund grant helped make the …


Indonesia improving FLEGT licensing procedures

Indonesia has taken several measures in recent months to improve procedures relating to FLEGT licences — the export licences that attest to the legality of EU-bound timber and timber products. The changes are part of a process of continuous improvement that is jointly overseen by the EU and Indonesia, and which is providing important …


Global Timber and wood products market see growth

Softwood lumber exports from Russia, Germany and the Nordic countries have climbed after seeing high demand for wood in Asia and Europe in early 2018. Canadian exports plummeted to the lowest level in five years, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. Global Softwood Lumber market Worldwide trade of lumber saw an increase again in early …


BARK BEETLE INFESTATION WORST IN OVER 200 YEARS

The Czech Republic’s largely coniferous forests face the worst onslaught of bark beetle infestation in at least 200 years. The amount of spruce wood damaged by bark beetles has increased steadily in the past few years, from 2 million m3 of spruce wood in 2015 to more than 5.5 million m3 in 2017. Experts cautioned that the nation’s …


PT Komatsu Indonesia Wins the Deming Prize

PT Komatsu Indonesia (KI) a wholly owned subsidiary of Komatsu Ltd. (hereafter "Komatsu") (President and CEO: Tetsuji Ohashi), has received the Deming Prize for 2018.  Since 1961, when Komatsu introduced the company-wide quality control (QC) programme, Komatsu has proactively promoted total quality control (TQM) over the years. In 1964 …


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WMF 2016 - Exhibitor Interview: Mr. Piergiorgio Franca, Chief Executive Officer of Biesse China 专訪比雅斯中国首席执行官Piergiorgio Franca先生

1.「智能制造」成为制造业的热点，针对这一形式，比雅斯如何应对中国市场需求？ 
Piergiorgio Franca先生：自2014年起，智能制造在全球都显得非常重要，比雅斯致力在中国市场成为行业领导者。正因为此，我们来到到中国，并努力拓展中国市场。比雅斯为中国制造企业提供可以满足客户多样化需求的生产解决方案。就家具生产和设计而言，比雅斯设备拥有高灵活性和多样性，可以协助改善生产技术，让企业在国内外更具竞争力。

Homag: Drilling and dowelling – ABD 260 Optimat

Drilling and dowelling – more efficient than ever before

CNC Drilling and dowel inserting machine - always keeping a tight grip on everything
• Incredibly fast drilling and dowel insertion
• 8 clamping cylinders keep a tight grip on wokrpieces
• Flexible handling due to lowerable center stop
• SORB TECH machine bed - heavy and sturdy

Kuang Yung: MRS-610M Optimizing Movable Rip Saw

• Choice of 1-6 movable blades
• Extra large 450 / 610 mm cutting width
• Optimizing cut function
•  American designed and developed scan system which has decades of experience since the first system made in 1996
• Worldwide success with more than 200 sets sold in the USA, Europe and Asia.
• Easy to operate, learn, update and maintain with multi-language window operating system such as English and Chinese.
• Rip 10 - 12  lumbers (3.6m each) per minute. (The results may vary according to operator performance, timber length and feeding speed)
• A 7 -10% increase in yield compared to conventional multiple rip saw

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