2017 International Forest Industries Magazines October November 2017 | Page 16

LOGGING & BIOMASS NEWS
Hiab receives an order for forestry cranes from Russia
Hiab, part of Cargotec, has secured
an order for close to 40 LOGLIFT
F96ST forestry cranes from Russia.
The customer is ULK, a group of
Russian companies specialised in
logging, deep wood processing
and disposal of waste lumber. The
value of the order exceeds EUR
1 million and it has been booked
into Cargotec’s third-quarter order
intake.
“We will build a new wood
processing plant next to the
existing plant. As a result, this
complex will be Russia’s largest
woodprocessing factory. In order
to provide the plants with a
stable and uninterrupted supply
of timber, we decided to order
LOGLIFT cranes because we trust
t heir quality and durability,” says
Vasiliy Vasilievich Kuznetsov,
Technical Director, ULK.
“LOGLIFT F96 forestry cranes
combine power, speed and
efficiency. The telescoping model
of LOGLIFT 96S can effortlessly
reach the pile from further away
and load the timber straight to the
back of the trailer,” says Hannu
Virtanen, Director at Hiab Russia.
The deliveries of the forestry
cranes start in November and will
be finalised by the end of 2017.
Hans Ekman, Vice President,
Forestry, Hiab
“We are very happy to receive
this order from ULK and our wish is
that this delivery is a good start in
our cooperation. This order is also
a great success for our ambition
to grow the Hiab business in the
important and recovering Russian
market,” says Hans Ekman, Vice
President, Forestry Cranes, Hiab.
Potlatch and Deltic Timber to combine
Potlatch Corporation and Deltic
Timber Corporation have entered
into a definitive agreement
to combine in an all-stock
transaction and create a leading
domestic timberland owner and
top-tier lumber manufacturer.
The combined company will be
named PotlatchDeltic Corporation.
Transaction expected to close in
the 1H 2018.
Together, the combined
company will have a highly
productive and diverse timberland
portfolio of approximately 2
million acres, with approximately
1.1 million acres in the U.S. South,
600,000 acres in Idaho, and
150,000 acres in Minnesota.
In addition, upon completion
of the transaction, the company
will operate 8 wood products
manufacturing facilities, including
6 lumber manufacturing facilities,
1 medium density fiberboard
(“MDF”) facility and 1 industrial
plywood mill. In total, the
combined company will have
lumber capacity of 1.2 billion board
feet, making it one of the leading
producers in the U.S.
Furthermore, the company’s
lumber capacity will be heavily
weighted towards high-margin
southern yellow pine lumber, with
over half of the company’s capacity
being produced at its three
southern mills. The transaction
also combines two highly
complementary and successful real
estate businesses.
Upon closing of the transaction,
Mike Covey will continue to serve
as Chairman and CEO, and Eric
Cremers will continue to serve as
President and COO.
John Enlow, currently President
and CEO of Deltic, will serve as
the company’s Vice Chairman and
will lead the integration of the two
businesses. The Board of Directors
of the combined company will
comprise eight Directors from
Potlatch and four Directors from
Deltic.
The corporate headquarters
will be maintained in Spokane,
Washington, with the southern
operational headquarters located
in El Dorado, Arkansas.
Autolog partners with FPInnovations to market an automated
tool for separating wood species
Autolog has announced an
agreement with FPInnovations™
for the commercialization of a
real-time automated system
for identifying and separating
wood species based on existing
technology using near infra-red
spectroscopy.
Research by FPInnovations™
has shown that it is possible
to separate Canada’s softwood
species with a high success
rate. Autolog begins work to
industrialize the process, make it
robust and facilitate the use of this
technology in the sawmills.
Remarkably, this innovative
technology does not use
consumable products. By
eliminating recurring costs,
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this solution provides a definite
advantage with regards to its
Saptek™ drying optimizer, or other
solutions in the market.