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In 2025, exports of sawn timber (primary processing) will reach €440 million, double what they were fifteen years ago, according to Jean-François Guilbert (FrenchTimber). Softwood accounts for 930,000 m³ of exports, a figure that has been steadily increasing since 2011, when it stoo...
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Incomac and Nardi bring together 100 years of combined experience under a single brand. Among the most recent developments, mac EVO is a technology that reduces energy costs by 50%. Italian Drying Group (IDG), based in Montebelluna, Italy, was born from the merger of two iconic brands in wood dryin...
The ISB Group is accelerating its development in France with an €11 million investment plan over six years, including €5 million committed in 2025. The objective: to strengthen its logistics and industrial capabilities while consolidating an integrated value chain. This program notably tra...
The French National Federation of Timber Industries (FNB) and the National Federation of Rural Contractors (FNEDT) are raising the alarm about the impact of rising fuel prices on the entire forestry and timber sector. Silvicultural work, harvesting, processing, transport, and logistics are directly ...
Établissements Gaiffe is a sawmill founded in 1965 by Claude Gaiffe in Jussarupt (Vosges). Initially specialized in primary wood processing, it joined the Sélection Vosges network in 1987. In 2005, Yves Gaiffe launched a structuring development plan and acquired the ONF site in Champ-l...
The strength of family-owned sawmills has been built through the pooling of ideas, know-how and a capacity for cooperation initiated as early as the 1990s in order to gain greater influence in the softwood timber market, leading to the creation of three groups: Scierie des Vosges, a consortium of...
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Faced with the accelerating climate and health crises affecting French forests, Fransylva is calling for an emergency plan for forests by 2050. Droughts, wildfires, forest decline and regulatory pressures are weakening an ecosystem that nevertheless plays a central role in combating climate change, ...
