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LOGGING & BIOMASS NEWS Roseburg promotes Keith Eibel to Director of Chips and Coos Bay terminal As part of the recent restructuring of Roseburg’s Resource business, Keith Eibel has been promoted to Director of Roseburg’s chip business and the Coos Bay Shipping Terminal. “Keith has been instrumental in establishing Roseburg as the largest exporter of wood chips in North America,” Senior Vice President of Resources Scott Folk said. “He has spearheaded our strategy to successfully grow and diversify our chip business, and under his leadership, we have become a major player in the Japanese chip market.” Eibel joined Roseburg in 2008 as the manager of Roseburg’s chip business. His expanded duties now include the procurement and sale of chips to both international and domestic customers, the operations of Roseburg’s Coos Bay shipping terminal, and Finland: wood pellet production up in 2017 In 2017, in Finland, a total of 324,000 tonnes of wood pellets were produced. That is one fifth more than in the previous year and the third highest result in history. The production volume was highest in 2008 at 373,000 tonnes, reports Natural Resource Institute Finland (Luke). A new record was reached in the Finnish imports of wood pellets. In 2017, a total of 87,000 tonnes of wood pellets were imported to Finland, being 74% more than in the previous year. Exports of wood pellets, 37,000 tonnes, increased by 8% over the year before. The apparent consumption (production + imports – exports) of wood pellets in Finland amounted to 373,000 tonnes. Deliveries by pellet producers based on domestic pellet production grew by 15% compared to the previous year, amounting to 349,000 tonnes, which is the highest volume ever. The amount of wood pellets delivered to power and heating plants and large buildings increased by 18% to 288,000 tonnes. The amount of wood pellets delivered to small-scale housing and farms increased by 6% to 62,000 tonnes. responsibility for our western fiber business including sawdust, shavings and woody biomass. Prior to joining Roseburg, Eibel spent six years as chip manager for Weyerhaeuser and managed chip procurement for the company’s Albany and Springfield pulp mills. He worked for Willamette Industries for 23 years, primarily as fiber procurement manager. He graduated from Oregon State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Forest Products. The new easy2 controller Rethinking chipper operation.  New touchscreen and multi-function joystick  New assistant functions  Individual customizing of the work menu www.jenz.de JENZ GmbH Maschinen- und Fahrzeugbau Wegholmer Str. 14 ∙ 32469 Petershagen ∙ Germany +49 5704 / 94090 ∙ [email protected] ∙ www.jenz.de International Forest Industries | APRIL / MAY 2018 9