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A collection of stories about smaller businesses finding interesting and unusual ways to earn profits with their Wood-Mizer sawmills.
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| | | just published in business ideas | Ethiopia – An unlikely timber destination
21.05.2013
 Despite its 4000-year old history, famine and drought have clouded opinion on Ethiopia, its timber processing heritage another obscure fact. Wood-Mizer Africa’s Robert Moxham uncovers a bustling Ethiopia where timber is a key trading commodity. ... more
| A Woodworking Family
Inspired by Hard Work & Imagination
15.04.2013
 Not far from the Polish town of Kolo, well known for being the headquarters of Wood-Mizer’s European sawmill manufacturing facilities, the Matusiak family has created their own family business at their home, in the quiet countryside and surrounded ... more
| Pharmacist's portable band sawmill deep in the forest yields 4m3 of lumber daily
14.11.2011
 A private mountain-top sylvicultural, forestry and timber processing operation in the south of France has overcome drought, hurricanes and the potential stalling of log conversion by planned planting and harvesting, as well as 'in-house' sawing. The ... more
| "Wood deserves esteem" says ecologically driven German sawyer and carpenter
02.08.2011
 "We're a classic family affair", Matthias Berthold proudly says about his carpentry and stair-building business in Friedrichsdorf, Germany. Fifteen years ago he and his brother built two timber cottages on a 20,000m² former factory site at ... more
| Small sawmill at aristocratic estate in Saxony will fulfill family dreams
28.06.2011
 A switch from bought-in timbers to in-house sawmilling has allowed a family restoring an ancient German estate to broaden its horizons. The switch to sawing timber themselves also gives the owners more flexibility, improved quality of timbers and a ... more
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