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Covestro Developing Bio-based Resin for Stable Timber Construction Materials

2017-09-06 19:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News

High flame retardancy and protection against weathering thanks to new polyurethane matrix, the company touts.

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EU to license Indonesian timber in effort to reduce illegal cutting

2016-09-18 03:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: The EU said last week that Indonesia is the first country to qualify for the licenses. It will mean that traders of goods such as wooden furniture, plywood and paper that earn the certification will find it easier to do business with Europe. But some environmental and civil society groups are already concerned the licensing system could become a conduit for illegal timber from a country where tropical forests are being cut down at an epic rate. The EU has been trying to implement its timber...

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The Compact Wooden City: A Life-Cycle Analysis of How Timber Could Help Combat Climate Change

2016-06-02 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Arch Daily: Nowadays the main building materials used in the construction industry are concrete, steel and timber. From the point of view of ecological sustainability, there are four important differences between these three materials: first, timber is the only material of the three that is renewable; second, timber needs only a small amount of energy to be extracted and recycled compared to steel and concrete (but the implementation of its potential is not as developed yet); third, timber does not produce waste...

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Timber smugglers could make Senegal's last forests disappear soon

2016-05-26 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Forests in Senegal's lush Casamance region risk disappearing within two years because of illegal timber smuggling, one of the West African country's foremost environmentalists said on Thursday. Casamance in southern Senegal contains the country's last remaining forests, an area of 30,000 hectares (74,000 acres) that could be depleted by 2018 as smugglers feed the demand for rosewood furniture in China, said former environment minister Haidar El Ali. Exporting timber from Senegal is illegal,...

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