The popular COFE and FORMEC conference 2020 is to be held in Corvallis, Oregon, USA
COFE (Council on Forest Engineering) and FORMEC have combined forces to present a bigger and better conference. The 2020 event will be held from 27t to 30 September 2020 at Corvallis, Oregon, USA. The call for Abstracts will be made in February 2020, with an abstract deadline of April 15, 2020. The notification of acceptance will be by May 15 and final paper submission by August 15. A special issue of the International Journal of Forest Engineering will be produced. Logging-on will announce the conference website in due course.
Logset will establish a sales company called Logset Ab Sverige Filial in Sweden
The office is nearby Halmstad and will officially open on December 2nd, 2019. Logset has sold machines to Sweden through dealers ever since the company was founded in 1992. From now on the sales company will handle the sales in Southern Sweden and Denmark. The sales company will also assist dealer Sigsjö Maskin Ab with sales in Northern Sweden. The new opening is expected to increase the sales in Sweden and Denmark. Source
Ponsse voted the best medium-sized company
Finnish private investors have elected Ponsse as the best medium-sized company listed in Nasdaq Helsinki. In the “Yksityissijoittajan valinta” (Private Investors’ Choice) competition, small-scale investors voted for Finland’s most reliable and attractive listed companies. Ponsse was voted the winner on the list for medium-sized companies. Private investors thanked Ponsse for its expert management and its use of the traditional production area. Its role as a significant employer was also an advantage. Ponsse was described as a loyal and innovative regional family-owned company from Vieremä. Source