Inter­na­tio­nal Day of Forests 2026: Forests and eco­no­mies — forests mean busi­ness
Forests are vital to our eco­no­mies and to mil­lions of live­li­hoods around the world. They create jobs, gene­rate income and sup­port com­mu­ni­ties – from local pro­ducers to glo­bal value chains. From vital eco­sys­tem ser­vices associa­ted with water, cli­mate and soils, to eco­tou­rism, energy supply and raw mate­rials, forests cont­ri­bute tril­lions to the glo­bal eco­nomy. On 21 March, join the celebra­tion for the Inter­na­tio­nal Day of Forests!

Ima­gine using wood in clot­hes, as a replace­ment for conc­rete and steel in buil­dings, to make clot­hing, and even to pro­duce bio­de­gra­dable satel­li­tes. This isn’t science fic­tion; it’s a rapidly expan­ding rea­lity in which wood has hundreds of new applica­tions and can pro­vide solu­tions to big chal­len­ges such as pol­lu­tion and cli­mate change. By cham­pio­ning res­pon­sibly pro­duced wood, the Grow the Solu­tion cam­paign shows that healthy, well-mana­­ged forests can both thrive and pro­vide the renewable mate­rials the world needs. Small eve­ry­day deci­sions add up to big cli­mate bene­fits, and eve­ry­one can join the move­ment. By choo­sing wood, we can help grow a solu­tion that builds a more sus­tai­nable future. Wood you believe a forest can change the world?

Mana­ger Pro’s advanced fea­tu­res help take into account all the little details that toget­her can make any site more pro­duc­tive. Har­ves­ting beco­mes more trans­pa­rent and thanks to the accu­mu­la­ting data, it can be deve­lo­ped for all log­ging sites

Ponsse dual Anni­ver­sary June  2025. Juha Vidgren, Mem­ber of the Board, inter­view by Rhi­ne­lan­der WJFW.

Ponsse dual Anni­ver­sary June  2025. Chris Nor­ling, Mar­ke­ting Mana­ger Ponsse North Ame­rica, inter­view by Rhi­ne­lan­der WJFW.

The Ponsse story has been told around the world for 55 years. Who would have thought that the mixed-breed and low-bodied Ponsse dog that roa­med the vil­lage of Vie­remä would still remem­ber its name deca­des later? Welcome to watch The Story of the Ponsse Dog – a com­pa­nion on our sha­red jour­ney.

Log­ger Mack inter­views Juha Vidgren, the owner of Ponsse Plc.

Today, Ponsse Plc is one of the world’s lar­gest manu­fac­tu­rers of cut-to-length forest mac­hi­nes. The roots of the family-owned com­pany, grown from a mac­hine entrepreneur’s dream into an inter­na­tio­nal export com­pany, lie deep in the Fin­nish count­ry­side. The com­pany is still based in Vie­remä, in the same loca­tion in which it was foun­ded in 1970.

Growing a pro­duc­tive forest requi­res work and com­mit­ment. Cor­rectly timed thin­ning ope­ra­tions improve the forest’s growth con­di­tions and make trees grow stur­dier more quickly.

PONSSE HH360 is a har­ves­ter head rota­tor that lite­rally widens the pers­pec­tive on efficient har­ves­ting to a full 360 degrees. With PONSSE HH360 in use, the hoses stay in a fixed posi­tion from crane tip to rota­tor, all the time. This enables rota­ting the head freely wit­hout having to worry about unex­pec­ted — and expen­sive — down­time caused from twis­ted hoses. The ope­ra­tor’s work beco­mes swif­ter, and the ove­rall efficiency of the job­site is sig­ni­ficantly impro­ved.

The PONSSE Elep­hant King forwar­der is the most power­ful mac­hine in our forwar­der range. The most pro­duc­tive forwar­der on the mar­ket, offe­ring a supe­rior level of com­fort, is par­ticu­larly eco­no­mical and efficient when trans­port dis­tances are long or trans­por­ted trees are large.

Ponsse’s cut-to-length forest mac­hi­nes have pro­ved to be excel­lent har­ves­ting solu­tions, also on steep slo­pes. Envi­ron­men­tally friendly and safe har­ves­ting solu­tions for slo­pes are in high demand, especially when har­ves­ting takes place in areas with varying ter­rain and steep­ness.