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HarvestTECH News | Issue 33
Welcome to the latest issues of HarvestTECH.News. First up, thanks to all of you who attended the Residues2Revenues 2022 event last week in Rotorua, New Zealand. An outstanding turnout (considering Covid that was still doing the rounds and the atrocious weather that was flooding much of the country at the time) of well over 350 forestry companies, log harvesting and ...
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Maersk to launch NZ coastal shipping service
Shipping giant Maersk is launching a dedicated New Zealand coastal service to help strengthen the supply chain and improve vessel schedule reliability. It’s the first time the company has offered ...
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Forest360 NZ log export market update
June is never a fun month in this game. We’re generally kidding ourselves that it’s going to be a dry winter or that we’ve had enough rain already and there ...
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World’s first electric log truck rolled out
SCA has, together with Scania, has developed the world's first electric timber truck with a capacity of 80 tonnes. The world's first electric timber truck with a capacity of 80 ...
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Fiona’s final forest safety blog
After seven great years this is my last Safetree blog. What an experience it’s been overseeing Safetree/FISC’s growth from a recommendation in the 2014 Independent Forestry Safety Review to an ...
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Heavy transport fleet de-carbonising with hydrogen
A new partnership is helping one of New Zealand’s largest heavy transport fleets decarbonise with hydrogen technology. New Zealand transport company H.W. Richardson (HWR) is partnering with Christchurch-based zero emissions ...
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Self-driving robotrucks rolling onto US freeways
After lumbering through a gravel parking lot like a big blue bull, one of Aurora Innovation Inc.'s self-driving truck prototypes took a wide right turn onto a frontage road near ...
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Before chainsaws – hand felling monster trees
Before chainsaws were invented, the logging industry in the United States & Canada was a seriously challenging occupation and we are only talking about 125 years ago. In the Pacific ...
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Launch of two firsts for the NZ transport sector
New Zealand’s Energy and Resources Minister Dr Megan Woods celebrated the launch of two firsts for energy decarbonisation in the transport sector in New Zealand; an electric milk tanker and ...
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HarvestTECH News | Issue 32
Welcome to the latest issues of HarvestTECH.News. First up this month is the release of a new online guide, The Ultimate Guide to Motorised Grapple Carriages for Mechanised Forestry Harvesting ...
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Ponsse impacted by Ukraine conflict
Ponsse Plc is inviting its personnel to cooperation negotiations pursuant to the Act on Co-operation within Undertakings. The negotiations concern adaptations to the current situation. The needs for adaptations are ...
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Making full use of a Grapple Carriage
Motorised Grapple Carriages seem to have been around for ages and have revolutionised the way many steep forests are harvested around the world…….and yet, there is still some reluctance to ...
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Einride E-Trailer concept unveiled
Autonomous EV freight company Einride introduced their new E-Trailer concept along with new software and hardware products at its first Einride Mesh technology conference. This includes updates to its Saga ...
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An extra $4400 per trip: fuel price woes bite
Well-known veteran Australian outback truckie Steve Grahame says that while owner operators are already feeling the pinch of rising fuel costs – he believes the effects are likely to get ...
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Scania NZ welcomes first electric trucks
Scania New Zealand is putting two of its very first fully electric trucks on local roads and marks our country as the very first outside of Europe to have the ...
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No stopping 60-year logging industry veteran
One of nine brothers who, along with their father, were all involved in the log transport industry, Dave Siddle, 76, knows the roads that lead to the APM Mill at ...
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The CEO who gave up his salary
Alex Rodrigues, CEO of Embark Trucks, donated his 2022 salary and bonus to fund Little Robots.After a long career, many of us feel the need to help future generations find ...
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Helping workers recover from addiction
When Joe* failed a random drug test one Monday he expected to lose his contract. But his client Forestry Solutions Group offered him an alternative – sign up to a ...
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New forestry dozer from Tigercat
Tigercat Industries develops purpose-built forestry dozer and launches new brandTigercat Industries has developed a forestry dozer. The new TCi 920 will be making the rounds at several US forestry industry ...
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HarvestTECH News | Issue 31
Welcome to the latest issues of HarvestTECH.News. This month we have several new product launches covered by Tigercat, Komatsu and John Deere. As you move into the forest, a number ...
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NZ’s first Green Hydrogen refuelling site
Construction of New Zealand’s first high-capacity green hydrogen refuelling station has started in Palmerston North. The site, adjacent to Palmerston North Airport, is the first of four hydrogen refuelling stations ...
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MyKomatsu brings visual data to contractors
With Komatsu’s new digital hub, My Komatsu, contractors can get easy-to-interpret visual analyses of data collected from numerous sources displayed on easy-to-read dashboards. It’s designed to collect, visualize and monitor ...
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