Press releases 2007

• Finnish wood products cluster to write out research strategy 12/19/2007
• Chairman of the Board, Finnish Forest Industries Federation, CEO Jussi Pesonen: Forest industry is in a turning point towards regeneration 11/16/2007
• UPM's President & CEO Jussi Pesonen elected Chairman of the Board at the Finnish Forest Industries Federation for 2008 11/16/2007
• Resolution found for the collective labour agreement of forest workers 11/13/2007
• Forest industry needs professionals offering a broad array of skills 11/5/2007
• Importance of maintenance expertise is growing 11/2/2007
• Finnish Forest Industries Federation modernising all of its online services 11/2/2007
• Forest industry requires wood at a steady rate and a competitive price 10/31/2007
• Resolution found for the collective labour agreement of salaried employees in the mechanical forest industry and the furniture and joinery industries 10/25/2007
• Forestry experts’ labour market dispute resolved 10/24/2007
• State Conciliator's proposal in the forestry experts labour market dispute 10/22/2007
• Professor Bruce Lippke, University of Washington: Increasing the use of wood could slow climate change 10/18/2007
• Finnish Forest Industries Federation and the Finnish Paper Workers’ Union launch study with the aim of reducing sick-leave absences 9/11/2007
• Finnish forest industry preparing for the competence needs of the future 8/23/2007
• Christine Hagström-Näsi appointed Managing Director of Metsäklusteri Oy 8/17/2007
• Bold reforms in the Finnish vocational training in the paper, wood and chemical sectors 6/15/2007
• Emissions of the Finnish pulp and paper industry well in control despite record production volumes in 2006 6/6/2007
• The Finnish forest industry has already met the Kyoto objectives - Allocation of sufficient emission allowances is a reasonable requirement 6/4/2007
• The forest industry has an excellent possibility to be a locomotive of success for Europe 5/18/2007
• Forest industries' business environment remains challenging - Finnish mills need 10-15 million cubic metres more domestic wood at competitive prices 4/27/2007
• Innovation company established to network top level research and innovation in the Finnish forest cluster 4/12/2007
• All sources of livelihood are needed in Forest Lapland 3/9/2007
• Wood should be utilised first to process products and last to generate energy 3/8/2007
• Record amount of Finnish pulp, paper and paperboard in 2006 2/14/2007
• Russia increasing export duties for roundwood gradually 2/9/2007
• The forest-based sector is the bioenergy driver described by the European Commission 1/12/2007