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Despite the European legislation and its Timber Regulation (EUTR) that is supposed to moralize commercial practices, the teak market remains strongly suspected of illegality. We are talking here about natural teak, that still comes from forests located in the most famous production basin in the world: Burma or Myanmar.... [više ...]
Fordaq presents its new, revolutionary technology for lumber measurement: TallyExpress. The user only has to take a photo with a smartphone - and TallyExpress does the rest! The app counts the boards, calculates their dimension and the volume of the entire bundle. In addition, the app creates a measurement report including the recorded image. This report can then be further processed in all standard warehouse and ERP systems...... [više ...]
TallyExpress - the revolutionary tally app – promises to offer an affordable and accurate solution from your smartphone. Using artificial intelligence and sophisticated computer vision algorithms, TallyExpress allows you to measure bundles in a fast and reliable way, directly on your Android device. With just a photo, TallyExpress recognizes and counts each board individually, calculates their respective widths and computes the total volume in a matter of seconds...... [više ...]
For several years, flooring manufacturers have exhibited herringbone parquet at the Domotex and BAU trade fairs. At first only as an experiment. That's about six to eight years ago. Since then, more and more suppliers offfer herringbone parquet. At the moment, one can no longer speak of a niche, especially because the world's largest laminate producer Swiss Krono also offers a herringbone laminate product... [više ...]
In 2019, will the poplar follow the same trend that has prevailed over the past three years? The answer is undoubtedly positive if one examines the factors favorable to the wood species that has faced two difficult decades... [više ...]
On November 30, 2018, the European Timber Industry Association CEI Bois organized a seminar in Lisbon on the future of the wood industry in Europe. The 70 participants came from European associations and companies in the wood industry. The organizers were CEI Bois, as the European umbrella organization for the wood industry, the European Association of Engineered Wood Manufacturers EPF and the European Workers' Federation of the Wood Industry EFBWW. CEI WoodThe host was the Portuguese association AIMMP. The topic of the seminar was the future challenges of the wood industry... [više ...]
Over the last year, in Europe, natural hazards have been сoming one after another and have destabilized the coniferous forest markets. It all started with the storms of October 2017... [više ...]
The efficiency of South Tyrol begins to bear fruit to those few organized to dispose of the huge amount of forests destroyed by the hurricane...... [više ...]
Are the French softwood markets at a turning point? The question deserves to be asked since the mixed tendencies are observed in the end of this year. On a global level, specialists do not rule out a risk of a slowdown in the global economy in 2019, that would reflect a... [više ...]
In 2018, fifth generation family business Robinson Lumber Company celebrates its 125th year of continuous operation. We approached Mr. Hank Marchal, Managing Director European Division for Robinson Lumber Company, to express his opinion on this year's celebration and the latest developments of the company... [više ...]
