Now, memories are all that remain of many of the water-powered grist mills and sawmills that were found along the banks of nearly every stream. Mary Sue Shaw has spent the last two years researching mills in southeastern York County and will tell the tale of many of the 18th- and 19th-century mills that used water power to saw, grind and mill lumber and grain to meet the needs of the local population, during a presentation April 18 at the Stewartstown Presbyterian Church fellowship hall....

Witoelar, who said that furniture using illegally cut timber from the Indonesian region of Papua was being sold in shopping malls as far away as Britain, urged other countries to help oversee whether wood may have been logged illegally. April 9, 2007 JAKARTA Indonesia appealed on Monday to world consumers to stop buying products made from illegally logged wood, and said rich countries should pay the poor to preserve forests in the battle against global warming. Programmes for the fund are...

A new study on the effects of timber harvest following wildfire shows that the potential for a recently burned forest to reburn can be high with or without logging. Three treatments were examined: commercial logging that removed only dead trees with value for wood products, commercial logging plus thinning that removed all dead trees larger than 4 inches in diameter, and unlogged sites. The year after logging (3 years after the fire), sites that were logged and thinned had four times more...

The Jacarei facility is an integrated pulp and paper mill and one of the most modern and competitive eucalyptus pulp producers in the world with a pulp production capacity of one million tons per year. The assets in the joint venture, currently owned by VCP, comprise a paper machine, an offline coater and extensive finishing equipment at the Jacarei mill, close to S o Paulo. VCP is one of the leading integrated pulp and paper manufacturer in Latin America with four manufacturing sites and...

Denver - Pulp and paper industry poised to optimize with new quality measurement technology. The ASD NIR spectrometer measures pulp brightness and Kappa Number a measure of lignin, the material that bonds wood together and which must be chemically removed in order to make bleached paper products. The new analyzers promise to optimize lab and industrial measurements of these parameters leading to better control of the manufacturing process with reduced costs and better environmental performance.