News Articles

John Deere – 1710 forwarder to remain available to some markets

Tigercat – Consolidation of manufacturing facilities

Franklin – Goes off the market

FPInnovations – Biodiesel use in Forestry

Wood Resources International – Global shipments of woodchips 14% down in 2009

Caterpillar – New Prentice SC-57 center post saw for wheeled feller bunchers

European chainsaw carving championships at United Kingdom’s APF 2012 in September

Tractor of the Year finalists for 2013 announced

Volvo FH 16 truck now available with 750 hp engine

Trelleborg inaugurates new agricultural (and forestry) tyre manufacturing facility in China

Management changes at Stihl

New Sany mega-excavator factory produces an excavator every 5 minutes

Scaling timber using ground-based LIDAR

Volvo Trucks introduces their new FH-series

New X Line Energy D drive tyre from Michelin.

John Deere expands 6 Series tractor line-up with 12 new and updated models.

New D6K2 dozer from Cat

Komatsu releases their new D61-23 dozers

New Doosan line of severe-duty excavator buckets for abrasive materials

Good news in these economic times is that Ponsse has experienced an upturn in equipment sales during the first quarter of 2010.

Reducing forestry transport costs with FastTRUCK

New Case 570 N XT Loader/Tool Carrier

RoadEng users take note – Softree Version 6 released

Rottne spare parts exchange system guarantees machine uptime

European news - Metla to coordinate EU research into new technologies for forest biomass supply chains

African news – Bell Equipment and John Deere to remain partners

New saw unit for Komatsu 370E harvester head

John Deere’s Nate Clark receives American Loggers Council’s President’s Award

Brazil’s ExpoForest 2014 officially launched on 27 November

VTI investigates the cost benefits of using a 90 tonne log truck