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HarvestTECH News | Issue 39

HarvestTECH News | Issue 39

Welcome to the latest issues of HarvestTECH.News. In New Zealand, the news over the last month has been dominated by Cyclone Gabrielle and its aftermath. The cyclone cut off communities and caused widespread flooding and destruction to homes, businesses and infrastructure. As the clean-up continues, one key debate will be on how we, the forest industry and other land users, ...
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John Deere Introduces New Mid-Size Crawler Log Loader

John Deere Introduces New Mid-Size Crawler Log Loader

The new 2956G offers optimal horsepower and hydraulic capability. Helping ease transportability, the 2956G design offers an overall shipping width of less than 11'6" and a 90,000 lbs operating weight ...
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Plantation thinning for carbon, timber and innovation

Plantation thinning for carbon, timber and innovation

Plantation thinning may not be new in the forestry sector, which has been thinning to improve tree growth and vigour for years. But the operations being carried out by Forico ...
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Fears for forestry contractor livelihoods

Fears for forestry contractor livelihoods

New Zealand’s forestry contractors in the Tairawhiti, Hawkes Bay, Coromandel and Northland regions are facing immense pressure and compounding challenges post-cyclone Gabrielle. Planted forest in these combined regions makes up ...
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SCA test-drives centipede forest machine

SCA test-drives centipede forest machine

SCA has been test-driving the Centipede concept machine, which Komatsu and eight Swedish forestry companies are jointly developing. The machine is seen as the sustainable forest machine of the future ...
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Drone footage shows forestry windthrow from cyclone

Drone footage shows forestry windthrow from cyclone

Great swathes of forestry in the central North Island of New Zealand have been obliterated by Cyclone Gabrielle, with drone footage showing the scale of destruction. The Lake Taupō Forest ...
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FEA Update: China softwood log inventories

FEA Update: China softwood log inventories

China’s Softwood Log Inventories at Ocean Ports. FEA industry sources in China report that softwood log inventories at the country’s main ocean ports totaled 5.4 million m3 on February 3, ...
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Hydrogen technology to debut on international stage

Hydrogen technology to debut on international stage

JCB will feature its new hydrogen combustion engine—the company’s solution for zero carbon emissions for construction and agricultural equipment on the international stage at North America’s largest construction show, CONEXPO/CON-AGG ...
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Forestry contractors chipping in with clean-up

Forestry contractors chipping in with clean-up

New Zealand’s forestry contractors are mucking in to help clean up post Cyclone Gabrielle while unable to get back to work as normal. Some forestry contractors affected by Cyclone Gabrielle ...
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February 2023 NZ log market update

February 2023 NZ log market update

Opinion Piece, Marcus Musson, Director, Forest360As expected, February has seen another solid lift in export prices courtesy of some increased in-market sales prices (CFR) and a reasonably subdued shipping market ...
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HarvestTECH News | Issue 38

HarvestTECH News | Issue 38

Welcome to the latest issues of HarvestTECH.News. As we begin 2023 there’s plenty to catch up on as we look ahead to the upcoming year. In a couple of months' ...
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Transport trends companies can’t ignore in 2023

Transport trends companies can’t ignore in 2023

Global transport is on the cusp of substantial changes driven by constant innovation in technology, the need to deliver more, a powerful surge in customer expectations, and pricing. In New ...
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Electrifying 8,500 Hilux and Landcruiser Models for Mining Industry

Electrifying 8,500 Hilux and Landcruiser Models for Mining Industry

Press Release SEA Electric has made the next step in its journey to electrify the world’s commercial vehicle fleet, by signing a significant Memorandum of Understanding with MEVCO, a leading ...
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Midway officially opens wood fibre export plant

Midway officially opens wood fibre export plant

Tasmania’s sustainable forestry sector is going from strength-to-strength with the official opening Tasmania’s newest wood fibre export facility at the Bell Bay Industrial Complex last week. The facility, owned by ...
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Wahine in Forestry – Answers to a long standing challenge

Wahine in Forestry – Answers to a long standing challenge

The question of how to address the gender inequality that exists in our forest sector is not a new one, you only must read, “A Path Through The Trees”, the ...
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Awards return with accolades to industry winners

Awards return with accolades to industry winners

Good things take time and two and a half years since the inaugural event in 2019, the Hawke’s Bay Forestry Group celebrated with the local sector community the second forestry ...
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Death a reminder to keep an eye on field staff

Death a reminder to keep an eye on field staff

A forestry services company has been ordered to pay NZ$536,000 for the death of a worker on a site near Wairoa in 2020. The victim, a 48-year-old father and husband, ...
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Waratah marks 50th anniversary

Waratah marks 50th anniversary

Waratah Forestry Equipment is celebrating 50 years of innovation within the forestry industry and thanking its customers for decades of trust and loyalty to the brand. “We’re proud to celebrate ...
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Brandt Tractor acquires AGrowQuip

Brandt Tractor acquires AGrowQuip

The Brandt Group of Companies is pleased to announce that they have successfully acquired the assets of AGrowQuip NZ Ltd., effective January 30, 2023. This transaction ensures access to the ...
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HarvestTECH News | Issue 37

HarvestTECH News | Issue 37

Welcome to the latest issues of HarvestTECH.News. As 2022 comes to a close, it's been a year where Covid-19 and disrupted supply chains have been replaced by a return to ...
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Major log transport event planned for May 2023

Major log transport event planned for May 2023

In log transport, we continue to ramp up coverage of an array of new innovations in electric, hydrogen and diesel-hybrid powered vehicles, truck automation and platooning. Right now, there’s a ...
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Contractor's training school to address skills shortages

Contractor’s training school to address skills shortages

A shortage of skilled machine operators across New Zealand motivated contractor Mike Hurring to open his own training school in Balclutha. The school runs 5-week machine operator courses that cover ...
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Brandt to Acquire Agrowquip NZ

Brandt to Acquire Agrowquip NZ

In New Zealand, the Brandt Group of Companies is pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Agrowquip NZ Ltd. The acquisition combines the ...
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Revamping hauler operation to improve safety

Revamping hauler operation to improve safety

When central North Island contractor Brian Rutgers from Loggabull, decided to refit his old hauler, the first thing he did was ask his experienced operator and foreman for their ideas ...
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Expressions of Interest: Residues2Revenues 2023

Expressions of Interest: Residues2Revenues 2023

Early expressions of interest to present at next year’s Residues2Revenues 2023 event are now been called for. This year saw record numbers of forestry, wood harvesting, timber products companies and ...
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New debarker for Northport

New debarker for Northport

C3 Limited and Pedersen Group are scheduled to install their new Debarker at Northport in early December 2022. Commissioning of the new Pedersen Group Debarker at Northport is planned for ...
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$40k raised for forestry mental health

$40k raised for forestry mental health

More than NZ$40,000 was raised to lead a mental health initiative for forestry at a charity auction dinner held in Rotorua, New Zealand on 18 November. Brought together by the ...
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November 2022 NZ log market update

November 2022 NZ log market update

Opinion piece: Inflation is front and centre of everyone’s minds at present and is more than likely causing Grant Robertson many sleepless nights. One of his biggest worries (and he’s ...
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Natural gas versus hydrogen as a transport fuel

Natural gas versus hydrogen as a transport fuel

Many commercial fleet operators are thinking about transitioning their vehicles to hydrogen or natural gas engines. These fuels can be great ways to reduce emissions. Both fuel options present similarities ...
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Record shipments of Russian timber arriving via China

Record shipments of Russian timber arriving via China

Timber from Russia has in recent years been sent through China for processing but since the Ukraine invasion by Russia, and the declaration of Russian timber as conflict timber, the ...
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