Cambium Global Timberland Share Discussion Threads

[waldron] 19/10/2007 13:04

Units and conversions


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Traditional units
Conventional units
Conversions

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Traditional units
Kampong Speu


firewood - metre, bundle

1 metre = 1m x 1m x 0.5m
1 bundle = 10cm x 10cm x 50cm (4 sticks)
charcoal - sack, kg


1 sack = 55 kg
Kampong Chnang and Pursat


firewood - hand

1 hand = 3 split logs
charcoal - sack, kg


1 sack = 55 kg
Kampong Thom


charcoal - sack, kg

1 sack = 55 kg
Kratie


firewood - bundle

1 bundle = 15cm x 15cm x 50cm (3 sticks)
charcoal - sack, kg


1 sack = 60 kg
Phnom Penh Markets


firewood - stere, metre, bundle

1 stere = 1 metre = 1m x 1m x approximately 0.5m
1 bundle = 15cm x 15cm x 50cm (sawmill)

12cm x 12cm x 32cm
10cm x 10cm x 32cm
8cm x 8cm x 36cm
7cm x 7cm x 36cm
6cm x 6cm x 32cm
charcoal - sack, kg


1 sack - weight depends on place of origin (55 or 60 kg)
Conventional units
firewood - stere, cubic metre


1 stere = 1 m x 1 m x 1 m (stacked wood)
1 cubic metre =1m x 1m x 1m (solid wood)
charcoal -ton, kg

Conversions
US$1 = 2,500 Reils

1 conventional stere = 2 traditional steres or metres

1 stere of firewood produces approximately 2.5 sacks of charcoal (this is a general estimation from charcoal producers in all the study areas)

1 stere of firewood produces approximately 795 bundles

1 stere of firewood = 600 kg (MIME, 1996a)

heating values (adopted from MIME, 1996a)


1 kg firewood = 14.5 MJ
1 kg charcoal = 29 MJ
1 kg LPG = 45.26 MJ
1 kWh electricity = 3.6 MJ
carrying capacities


firewood (stere)
charcoal (ton)

moto-cart
2.25
0.8

car
1.25
0.6

pickup
2.5
0.8

truck
7.5
2.4

train
222
5.5

boat
150
40



Note: values in tables may not add up due to rounding off.

[bamboo2] 13/10/2007 21:18

current holdings:

RNS DATE LOCATION SIZE/ACRE £/ACRE £/TOTAL TYPE/DESCRIPTION

30 04 07 NSW Aus 21,500 for new planting/carboncr

19 06 07 East Texas 21,853 £595 £13m Pine/mxd managed+income

06 08 07 Hawaii 6,100 £490 £3m lease Mature Eucalyptus. income
supply ply manufacturing.


summary to date, apols for any bad maths or currency errors. will update.

[bamboo2] 02/10/2007 22:12

previous aquisitions have been made approx 50 days apart, now 54 days since Hawaii deal.
wondered if cambium may have looked at HTB assets, recently disposed of prior to HTB vol liquidation.

[wild bill] 28/9/2007 01:21

no rugs in my log store.....

(or bugs)

[ariane] 26/9/2007 12:25

with all that wood, you'll be as snug as a bug in a rug

[ariane] 25/9/2007 12:56

did you go any further with that irish oil

[wild bill] 25/9/2007 12:54

I'll settle for sub zero temperatures then, I've got enough logs to see me through to Xmas (2008)

[jassie] 25/9/2007 11:53

Great safe haven in these unstable times!

[ariane] 24/9/2007 14:06

no snow this year marra

[wild bill] 24/9/2007 14:00

almost ready, bring on the snow.....

[bamboo2] 20/9/2007 12:27

could be a new aquisition next week. share price normally ticks up on news. very quiet here.

[waldron] 05/9/2007 04:51

i love those log splitters

[wild bill] 04/9/2007 23:02

just bought another chain saw - husky 350

next order - a 7 ton log splitter

[waldron] 02/9/2007 07:20

From The Sunday TimesSeptember 2, 2007

High-tech wood firm plans floatMatthew Goodman
A FORMER executive at the company behind Swarfega industrial soap is to float a firm that has developed a substitute for hardwood that is being tested by large retailers such as Argos and B&Q.

Roy Tilleard is chairman and chief executive of Kurawood, which plans a £17m flotation on the Alternative Investment Market. The company has created a system for taking softwoods, such as pine, and treating them so they become a substitute for hardwoods, such as oak.

With the growth in the use of hardwoods in products such as flooring, there has been a sharp drain on resources, and efforts have been made to halt the destruction of hardwood forests. A number of organisations have come up with technologies to find environmentally sound alternatives.

Kurawood has patented a timber treatment process that produces a substitute called Vecowood. All its output is manufactured in New Zealand and shipped overseas.

Retailers and building firms that have been testing Vecowood in their products include Argos, Homebase, B&Q and Wolseley. Kurawood is also in talks with a number of other store chains over potential trials.

The company hopes to raise £4.5m from the flotation to help develop the commercial applications of Vecowood, and will have a market value of £17m.

Tilleard was previously finance director of Deb, the company behind Swarfega, and has also worked for Unilever, the consumer-goods conglomerate.

City Financial has been appointed as adviser, and St Helen's Capital has been hired as broker.

[bamboo2] 26/8/2007 23:30

Anyone else holding tree.l shares?

[bamboo2] 24/8/2007 23:05

we have a website at last.

[bamboo2] 19/8/2007 12:33

latest deal is a lease on mature eucalyptus that will generate ongoing revenue from 2008. the timber will be sold to tradewinds, the owner of a plywood manufacturing plant. trimmings will be used in a combined heat and power project, steam being used in ply manufacture and power for local distribution.
next deal expected by 28 september. good luck.

[wild bill] 15/8/2007 11:23

as mentioned on the MED thread, any news on them would be most welcome, I don't have any but have watched them from January this year, I could have had a doubler but held back, burnt fingers with another Scottish company, as you are well aware

[wild bill] 13/8/2007 08:46

you're early today Frenchie

[waldron] 12/8/2007 09:26

Ancient forest found in Hungary
Urgent measures are being taken to preserve the ancient trees
The ancient trees
An ancient forest of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old, has been discovered in Hungary.
Archaeologists found the 16 preserved trunks in an open cast coal mine in the north-eastern city of Bukkabrany.

The specimens were preserved intact while most of the forest turned to coal thanks to a casing of sand, which was perhaps the result of a sandstorm.

It is hoped the trees may offer experts a valuable insight into Earth's climate eight million years ago.

The massive trunks are of a species known as swamp cypresses, which grew for 200-300 years.

The BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest says the wood of the trees is still brown in photographs taken by the archaeologists, giving the impression that it has only just been split.

The stumps, 2-3m (10ft) in diameter and 6m (19ft) high, stand uncovered on the lowest level of the mine.

However, now that the protective material around them has been stripped there is a danger that the trunks could turn to dust before the scientists' eyes.

Urgent measures are being taken to preserve them after an attempt to move one of the trunks failed.

Story from BBC NEWS:


Published: 2007/08/12 05:17:40 GMT

[bamboo2] 09/8/2007 15:15

news came 2 days earlier than i thought, share price rise spot on 50 days. small.