Komatsu - Tue August 24, 2021
Production Starts at Komatsu's New Factory in Northern Sweden
Forest machine production will soon begin at Komatsu Forest's newly built factory outside Umeå in northern Sweden. Here, assembly will take place on a single production line, around which the flows of both materials and people are optimized and automated to ensure high product quality and a high level of customer service....
Oregon Logging Conference - Tue August 24, 2021
Oregon Logging Conference Foundation Hands Out Round of Student Scholarships
More than $40,000 in financial assistance has been awarded to 20 students by the Oregon Logging Conference Foundation (OLCF). Each of those recipients represents the next generation of those who will carry on in the logging and forestry industry....
Fecon - Wed August 04, 2021
Fecon Adds Vermeer Southeast as Forestry Mulcher Dealer
As part of the controlled roll out of the recent global distribution agreement, Fecon LLC announced the addition of Vermeer Southeast. With 11 dealership locations throughout Alabama, Florida and Georgia and affiliated companies in the Caribbean, Vermeer Southeast provides a robust line of mulching equipment that incorporates the best of Vermeer and Fecon mulching technology....
Oregon Logging Conference - Tue July 27, 2021
Oregon Logging Conference Returns With In-Person Event
The Oregon Logging Conference will return for an in-person gathering after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled last year's live event. The 2022 conference will take place on Feb. 24 to 26, 2022, at the Lane County Convention Center and Fairgrounds, in Eugene, Ore....
Outsight - Thu July 01, 2021
Outsight Launches Real-Time LiDAR Solution for Forestry Industry
Outsight, a leader in 3D Spatial Intelligence, has announced the launch of the first real-time LiDAR solution for the forestry industry. Drawing on its established LiDAR expertise in other industries, Outsight has developed a mapping solution capable of generating a comprehensive 3D map of a forest in real-time....
CM Labs Simulations - Mon June 28, 2021
Mont-Laurier Vocational School Saves a Week of Training With Vortex Simulators
As one of Quebec, Canada's six forestry training centers, the Mont-Laurier Vocational School helps prepare a new generation of heavy equipment operators. The non-profit center collaborates with the region's timber companies to provide students with practical hands-on experience, including three months of field training alongside instructors in working logging camps....
Komatsu - Thu June 10, 2021
Komatsu Upgrades Design on Constant Cut Units
The cutting unit on all Komatsu C-heads, Constant Cut, will receive an upgraded design, effective June 1. The upgrade contains no less than 25 points and represents a number of improvements for customers, both in terms of increased productivity and better flow in the production....
Jordan Beck - Thu May 13, 2021
With Help From Michigan AgrAbility, Area Loggers Overcome Injuries
For Duane Berg, owner and founder of Berg Logging in Gladstone, Mich., business was booming in 2010 — right up until he fell off a roof. "I got injured in November 2010. Besides [being] a logger, I was a construction worker, and I was helping one of my friends do a job," Berg said....
CEG - Thu April 29, 2021
Ussery Services Forestry Mulching Hosts Demo Event
Traditionally, a manufacturer will work with a contractor for sourcing a location to hold a product demo and does the lion share of the work to coordinate all aspects and to bring in attendees. Such was not the case for a recent contractor mulching demo event in Sterling, Ga., just outside the city limits of Brunswick....
Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association - Wed April 28, 2021
GLTPA Applauds Safe Routes Act Legislation Introduction
The Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association (GLTPA) commended Congressman Mike Gallagher (R) Green Bay, Wis., for his persistence to create a safer environment for local communities and truck drivers with the re-introduction of the Safe Routes Act, H.R....
