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Useful tools - Calculating the monetary value of your logging biomass
2018-02-22 11:12:15

FPInnovations has produced the FPJoule, which calculates the amount of useable energy in biomass.

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Useful information - Condition-based maintenance and other machine fluid tips
2018-02-22 11:12:02

John Deere provides advice for the fluid maintenance strategies of logging equipment.

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The age of algae!
2018-02-22 11:12:02

Hitachi successfully tests an excavator on algae derived biofuel.

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Updated FPInnovations guidebook - Keeping an eye on machine fuel consumption
2018-02-22 11:11:48

Fuel prices increasingly dominate machine costs. FPInnovations provides tips to control fuel costs.

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Newsflash - What's happening in Forest Engineering?
2018-02-22 11:11:47

Waratah introduce their H215E Eucalyptus debarking head into the South African market

John Deere to open a strategic technology office at Iowa State University (ISU) Research Park

New CEO for Rottne

Something different – Rayco introduces a new mechanical trimmer to the market

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Timber Transport Research Results - Using carbon to carry carbon?
2018-02-22 11:11:33

Large amounts of carbon are stored in timber products. However, transporting the timber from the forest to the mill involves the combustion of fossil fuels. How much do these emissions reduce the net carbon sequestration value of the timber?

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Newsflash - What's happening in Forest Engineering?
2018-02-22 11:11:28

John Deere Adds 450K to Crawler Dozer line-up and updates 550K and 650K models

Sampo Rosenlew introduces their new HR46 thinning harvester

Volvo CE moves its headquarters from Brussels, Belgium to Gothenburg, Sweden

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Tigercats G-series feller bunchers obtain a new cab
2018-02-22 11:11:22

The improved operators cab is applicable to all G-Series drive-to-tree feller bunchers.

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Timber Transport Research - FERIC's Star Truck Project
2018-02-22 11:11:21

In 1999, FERIC (a division of FP Innovations) initiated a research project to demonstrate how better log truck specifications, using existing technologies, can optimise log transport operations, reduce fuel consumption and improve the mechanical availability of their equipment.

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Terex purchases Continental Biomass Industries (CBI)
2018-02-22 11:11:04

CBI and Terex have joined to allow focus on biomass processing equipment.

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