Sentences with phrase «from wood production»

In owning four different businesses, Weyerhaeuser is much more stable than firms that generate more of their operating income from wood production.

Not exact matches

2012 might not look so good from P&L as French building activity is very low, but company invested a lot into wood pellet production.

In 2002, with equipment gained from the purchase of the Old Saddleback Brewing Co. in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Southern Tier Brewing Company began production in the woods just outside of Lakewood, New York.

When the scientists analyzed the genomes of 80 birch trees from across Europe, they discovered a rich array of selective sweeps in genes that influence important qualities such as tree growth and wood production.

The advisor had a client who was trying to commercialize the production of western red cedar wood oil from cedar wood waste.

«By extracting wood from unmanaged forest and bringing these forests under production, humans released carbon into the atmosphere that would otherwise be stored in the biomass, litter, dead wood, and soil of the forest,» Naudts said.

Or such fuels can be made from waste: corn stalks, leftover wood from timber production or even city garbage.

The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived from plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.

But lignin must be removed from wood during biofuel, paper and pulp production through costly treatments that require high heat and harsh chemicals.

«Energy production from used wood in these cantons could have been markedly increased in 2014, the year covered by the survey,» says project team member Matthias Erni.

Clean rayon production is possible: Austrian company Lenzing, which makes a type of rayon fabric from wood pulp, uses a «closed loop» process that recycles essentially all the required chemicals.

This aesthetic permeates every aspect of Foul Play — enemies are not monsters but extras and actors in costume; sets come and go as they would in a real stage production; and props and larger - than - thespian beasts are constructed from wood and rope.

Back - patting piece «The Almighty Green Set» (5:25) lets those involved boast about the environmental awareness of the production, from using bikes to recycling wood from the ark.

Choose the GranLusso trim and you get exotic wood, leather and even natural silk from Zegna (a first on any production car) while the GranSport trim gets a cabin with carbon - fibre design elements.

According to payitgreen.org, if just 20 % of American households switched from paper to electronic bills, statements and payments each year, the collective impact would save 146,930,912 pounds of paper, 542,669,898 pounds of wood and prevent the production of 689,437,189 pounds of greenhouse gases.

Gerlikas employs the most traditional materials of modern sculpture, wood and brass, which require specific knowledge and meticulous hand production even if the three pieces obdurately resemble found objects, either from nature or distant cultures.

There is a simplicity in his gestures, his way with wood, his insistence on found objects sourced from his Niger Delta village and in particular his dissembled canvases, pulled apart one thread at a time that are at odds with an environment defined by imports, plastic and the production of crude oil.

The vast majority of wood used by Enviva's production plants in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina comes from upland forests and mixed stands.

The amount of wood used in paper production declined by 25 percent from 1995 to 2010, dropping 400 million tons annually to 300 million tons.

There are several methods to calculate carbon burdens from producing raw materials such as wood and petroleum (production, stock change etc), and IPCC gives countries leeway.

Each plant produced 5,000 to 7,000 gallons of ethanol per day from wood waste, and both were in production for several years (Sherrard 1945).

KiOR's biorefinery in Columbus, Mississippi started commercial production in March using wood chips to produce cellulosic fuels, and Ineos just announced on July 31 that their Indian River BioEnergy plant in Florida has begun operations to make biofuels from plant waste.

The American Lung Association recognizes that pollution from the combustion of wood and other biomass sources poses a significant threat to human health, and supports measures to transition away from using these products for heat production.

Burning wood instead of coal therefore creates a carbon debt — an immediate increase in atmospheric CO2 compared to fossil energy — that can be repaid over time only as — and if — NPP [net primary production] rises above the flux of carbon from biomass and soils to the atmosphere on the harvested lands.»

Charcoal is a byproduct from a type of bioenergy production which can also be used to make second - generation agrofuels from wood, straw, and other plant fibers; and even burning toxic plastics and coal plant residues.

From describing the production of a fiber much more durable and economic than wood, the documentary discusses hemps multilateral uses as e.g. food products, as a non-polluting fuel and as a pharmaceutical product with much less griveous sideeffects than chemical pharmaceutical products.

Field experiments (Christiansen et al. [1987]-RRB- have shown that the ratio of annual wood production to LAI, termed «growth efficiency» (GE), has proven useful as a general index of tree vigor and specifically to identifying the vulnerability of pine stands to attacks from mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae)(Coops et al. [2009]-RRB-.

Indeed, bioenergy from wood made up 44 % of the EU's renewable energy production in 2015.

In some industrialized countries, removals of wood from the forest for bioenergy applications already account for at least half of industrial roundwood production (Steierer et al., 2007; FAO, 2007b).

Brazil is one of the few countries where the large - scale production of energy from wood has been explored for decades.

Sources of wood for energy production may be derived from a range of existing production systems.

Most of the wood for future bioenergy production will likely come from existing forestry operations unless economically competitive technologies for the production of second - generation biofuels become available.

Given that the value of wood for fuel has been low in comparison with other end uses, the future supply of wood for bioenergy production is likely to come from existing forestry operations.

In recent years, the production of ethanol — a proven vehicle fuel — from cellulosic biomass, such as cereal straw or wood, has moved into the commercial demonstration phase.

Heat used in the olive oil production process will come from waste wood chips collected on the property.

Even better, the line is the first production piece to truly encompass their concept of «sustainability» in manufacturing and design; the wood comes from sustainable sources in New York and Pennsylvania, and all the fabrication is done in house with only two tools.

Though not yet ready for commercial production, the Indiana - based company says that it has developed a bio-aviation fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae and wood chips which it says will be cheaper to produce and perform better than current aviation fuels.

When wood products are used, governments can ensure that all domestic production and imports of wood products come from responsibly managed forests meeting rigorous environmental and social standards, like those of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Since 1960, global industrial wood production has risen by 50 percent, to 1.5 billion cubic meters, four fifths of which is from primary and secondary - growth forests.

Just 2 % of this wood came from the UK, and the UK's annual wood production across all industries is 11 million tonnes.

Repaired and remodeled wood, iron, chain link and vinyl... stock and other materials to and from storage and production areas and loading docks.