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Sweden: Reductions in timber storage regulations
The Swedish government ends the rules for timber storage to facilitate the forest industry during the current crisis. In order to facilitate various companies and social functions during the pandemic, the government makes temporary relief in the rules for environmental testing. For the Swedish forest industry, this means that the process for starting extended timber storage is shortened from months to weeks. The regulatory relief is also a measure to facilitate the work of getting the spruce bark drill timber out of the forest. The shutdown of economies around the world due to the virus pandemic has affected Swedish sawmill companies to a lesser extent than the sawmill industry in other large forest countries. The sawmills in Sweden, apart from a few weeks' delay or production reductions, have been able to keep up their production. At the same time, sawmills in Russia and... Continue reading
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June 23, 2020
Sweden: Reductions in timber storage regulations
The Swedish government ends the rules for timber storage to facilitate the forest industry during the current crisis. In order to facilitate various companies and social functions during the pandemic, the government makes temporary relief in the rules for environmental testing. For the Swedish forest industry, this means that the process for starting extended timber storage is shortened from months to weeks. The regulatory relief is also a measure to facilitate the work of getting the spruce bark drill timber out of the forest. The shutdown of economies around the world due to the virus pandemic has affected Swedish sawmill companies to a lesser extent than the sawmill industry in other large forest countries. The sawmills in Sweden, apart from a few weeks' delay or production reductions, have been able to keep up their production. At the same time, sawmills in Russia and... Continue reading
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Sweden: Reductions in timber storage regulations
The Swedish government ends the rules for timber storage to facilitate the forest industry during the current crisis. In order to facilitate various companies and social functions during the pandemic, the government makes temporary relief in the rules for environmental testing. For the Swedish forest industry, this means that the process for starting extended timber storage is shortened from months to weeks. The regulatory relief is also a measure to facilitate the work of getting the spruce bark drill timber out of the forest. The shutdown of economies around the world due to the virus pandemic has affected Swedish sawmill companies to a lesser extent than the sawmill industry in other large forest countries. The sawmills in Sweden, apart from a few weeks' delay or production reductions, have been able to keep up their production. At the same time, sawmills in Russia and... Continue reading