Foreign Agricultural Service – Forestry
The US Department of Agriculture has a commodity based export office know as the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). The FAS collects export data on Wood Products and other products exported from the US. There are 32 different Forest Products Groups and many more Forest Products Subgroups that the FAS tracks. The subgroups are broken down into all types of hardwood and softwood products, flooring, veneers, plywood, molding, poles, railroad ties, pulpwood and etc.
Wood Product markets were down in 2008 from 2007, but there are some Wood Product Subgroups that went up in 2009. Perhaps there is a Wood Products Exporter in your area that needs the type of timber that you are harvesting. The FAS should be able to help you find the Wood Product Export market that you need to make additional logging company profits!
Contact our Forestry Sales Manager, David Clark, to learn how Tiffin Parts can help you better serve your customers and to be more profitable.
clark1585@intrstar.net
910-230-0680 Office
910-322-0429 Cell
Here’s a link to the FAS web site, which offers a wealth of information and links to other sites as well:
http://www.fas.usda.gov/ffpd/forest.asp
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Biomass as a boiler fuel…
The EPA is rewriting the regulations for industrial boiler emissions. Some power plants that want to convert to biomass may delay their conversions until the regulations are clearly understood. Some details should come out in April 2010. (Note: The EPA regulations that are being developed are called Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rules.)
Wood chips are a common fuel for industrial boilers. It’s a profitable method for disposing of a by-product of the logging process so this issue will be of interest to many in the industry. We’ll keep you posted as we learn more. Here are a couple of links for additional info:
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