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Loggers Nationwide Support Jobs in the Woods Act
Loggers Nationwide Support Jobs in the Woods ActRepresentatives from both the Associated Oregon Loggers (AOL) and Professional Logging Contractors Northeast (PLCN) are among the many industry groups...
Timber Harvesting Logger Survey: Insurance Voted Biggest Challenge
Timber Harvesting Logger Survey: Insurance Voted Biggest ChallengeAsked to rate a dozen different business and industry issues as having the biggest impact on their businesses, almost three-quarters...
Minnesota TPA Now Offering Member Medical Health Benefit
Minnesota TPA Now Offering Member Medical Health BenefitThe Minnesota Timber Producers Assn. (TPA) is partnering with CapCare and Amalgamated Local 426 Member Benefit Program to give TPA members the...
Weyerhaeuser Tops Forisk Timberlands List
Weyerhaeuser Tops Forisk Timberlands ListForisk released its 2025 edition of the North American Timberland Owner & Manager List, with Weyerhaeuser leading the way as an owner of 10,439 million...
Tigercat 6040 Carbonizer Creates Organic Carbon
Tigercat 6040 Carbonizer Creates Organic CarbonTigercat’s 6040 carbonizer is an environmentally friendly wood debris reduction and conversion system. The machine inputs unprocessed clean wood debris...
Acadian Acquires Maine’s Brochu Logging Assets
Acadian Acquires Maine's Brochu Logging AssetsIn February, Acadian Timber Corp. signed an agreement to purchase assets of A & A Brochu, LLC for a total price of U.S. $4.8 million. The assets...
Upgrade From John Deere: Knuckleboom Loaders
John Deere introduces the latest updates to its knuckleboom loader lineup, including visibility enhancements. Aiming to increase operator safety and accuracy, the 2022 models of 437E and 337E knuckleboom loaders feature a newly designed front window by removing the external mesh guard and replacing it with a clear, polycarbonate window for uninterrupted view…
New Ponsse Products
Ponsse has launched a series of new products to improve productivity in sustainable harvesting, including the Ponsse Scorpion Giant harvester and the Ponsse Mammoth forwarder. The Scorpion Giant harvester adds to the Scorpion product range, which was completely upgraded in 2021. It was developed to have more tractive effort, which helps the harvester to be agile even in challenging conditions, including snow, steep slopes and soft terrain. The Scorpion…
Komatsu To Acquire Swedish Silviculture Attachment Manufacturer
Through Komatsu Forest AB, a wholly owned subsidiary in Sweden, Komatsu Ltd. is going to acquire Bracke Forest AB, headquartered in Bräcke, Sweden, which develops, manufactures, and sells application-specific attachments for silviculture. Tree planting is expected to expand worldwide for lumber production and environmental concerns, such as the promotion of carbon neutrality. At the same time, the need for mechanization is growing, especially because tree planting is labor-intensive work, with an increase in planting in remote areas, and a decrease in the workforce…
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