INTERFORST 2022 introduces digitalization offers in forestry and wood industry. Digitalisation is the way forward and is adopted as the next big thing in the forestry and wood segment.

World Wood Day is a cultural event held on March 21st, the vernal equinox, to highlight wood as an eco-friendly and renewable biomaterial and to raise awareness on the key role wood plays in a sustainable world through biodiversity and forest conservation.

A new policy brief, released today, reports on an independent review of a joint initiative between ITTO and the Convention on Biological Diversity, which began in 2011. The review found that, despite modest budgets, the initiative’s 16 projects achieved “extraordinary …

Stora Enso and Tornator will restore 1,000 hectares of low forest cover peatland in eastern and southern Finland between 2022 and 2027.

Kopparfors Skogar has recruited Per Österberg as the new CEO after Lars-Erik Wigert, who will retire in the spring.

Ponsse, one of the key manufactures and providers of a range of forestry vehicles and machinery such as forwarders and harvesters in the woodworking and manufacturing industry, expands business by opening a new service centre in Joensuu.

Forest Research has launched a new citizen science app combining England and Scotland windblow data to increase the knowledge of the full impact of Storm Arwen. The app is easy to use and allows anyone to validate and improve the …

Skånetimmer, Skånetimmer Bioenergi and JGA Skog merges to form new forest organisation.

The Forest Flux service, which has been developed under VTT’s leadership and utilises field surveying and satellite images, provides accurate and comparable information on the ability of forests to bind carbon. In the next few years, the information will increasingly be needed by all forestry actors as well as by governments, climate researchers and carbon trading professionals.

Forest Stewardship Council recently announces the winners in the indoor and outdoor furniture sector. The awards ceremony however, happened online and the winners in six award categories (Home-living, Home-office, Office furniture, Public spaces furniture, Outdoor furniture for home, Outdoor furniture for public spaces) and five special awards were announced by a jury composed by representatives of FSC national offices from the 11 competing countries.