Newsflash - What's happening in Forest Engineering?

Hiab presents their new forestry crane, the Hiab Loglift 108S, at Elmia
Hiab indicate that the 108S is a crane developed for non-stop, heavy work. Feedback from existing customers on their favourite features of existing cranes was used to develop the 108S. Source: http://www.cargotec.com

New tractor-operated chipper from Kesla
The Kesla C645S-II is aimed at entrepreneurs with roadside and farm-based based wood chipping operations. It has high mobility between sites and conveniently easy maintenance and cleaning. Source: http://www.kesla.fi/documents/10304/43489/Press+release+KESLA+chippers+Elmia+2013_EN.pdf  

John Deere harvesters now come standard with different power levels for different logging conditions
The energy savings mode optimises fuel consumption, the middle level optimises performance for nominal size trees, and the boost mode provides maximum power for large trees. The result of this Processing Power Control (PPC) is optimised fuel economy with maximum productivity according to specific logging conditions.

Komatsu Forest optimises Swedish operations
Komatsu Forest Ltd (including the development centre, production plant and headquarters) and Komatsu Forest Sweden HB (the Swedish sales company), both based in Umea, Sweden, will be merged into a single company, Komatsu Forest AB. Source: http://www.komatsuforest.com/default.aspx?id=1848&newsid=94491  

Pascal Rety appointed Export Sales Director for Logset Oy
He has been working for Logset since 2008 as an Area Sales Manager, Technical Support and Marketing Manager. He will be responsible for Logset’s entire export, and will continue to be in charge of sales in France, Canada, Brazil, Chile and Spain. Source: http://www.logset.com/Pascal_Rety_appointed_Export_Sales_Director  
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