Cable Industry News
Machine gains support low-impact on forests
Tuesday, 06, April 2010
The Forestry Ministry, NGOs and scientists are researching a new technology called the “mono-cable” to replace tractors to reduce damage caused by logging.The mono-cable is a machine designed for the logging industry, which is expected to help preserve the environment.PT Belayan River Timber and PT Narkata Raya are among the first logging companies in East Kalimantan to use the mono-cables. They have been using them from 2009.
“We have 16 mono-cable machines and plan to increase the number to 25 or 30 this year,” Untung Iskandar, director of Belayan told The Jakarta Post in Long Bagun village in West Kutai regency.“We hope we can change our conventional logging methods to one that supports sustainable forests.”The Post observed that damage to land caused by tractors reached was four to six times higher than that caused by mono-cables.Besides less damage, mono-cable also incurs less production cost from between Rp 150,000 (US$15) and Rp 175,000 to Rp 95,000 per cubic meter, Belayan’s operational director, Andreas Adi Nugroho, said.
