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Contracts cancelled over substandard timber

10 December 2008
Building materials supplier Placemakers has cut off some of its contractors after finding substandard timber had been used for building homes.
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Ghana’s ‘miracle’: Logging underwater forests for exotic timber

10 December 2008
Ghana, which is running short of forests to chop down, is about to turn to the dead trees underneath its Lake Volta as a new source of exotic timber, one of its top export earners.
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Valuable assistance from above

10 December 2008
A Lyndoch helicopter pilot will play an important part in this summer’s fight against bushfires. Bridgette Kies, one of the ‘chopper chicks’ from Barossa Helicopters, will be based at the Parafield Airfield as an air-attack response pilot during the fire danger season.
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‘Bring us in line with the rest of the country’

10 December 2008
A challenge has been laid down to the Victorian Government … “bring us in line with the rest of the country by addressing the fundamental flaw in its Forestry Rights legislation”. That challenge came from Pat Groenhout, general manager of PF Olsen Australia, at the Victorian Associat
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Sawdust-powered smoke dryer is very user-friendly

08 December 2008
The Wood Industries Training Centre (WITC) of the Timber Industry Development Division (TIDD) in Kumasi has developed a smoke dryer facility that uses sawdust instead of electricity to dry wood products.
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Saw doctoring project to help raise quality

08 December 2008
Guyana has collaborated with the Canadian Cooperation Fund (CCF) in the implementation of a project aimed to address the level of efficiency and quality of forest products in Guyana.
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Sawlog prices increase in China in 3Q 2008 as log supply tightens

08 December 2008
The domestic sawlog market in China has tightened as a result of reduced log imports from Russia in 2008. The increased competition for logs has pushed log prices upward to record highs in the 3Q 08, according to Wood Resources International.
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Timber expo timing couldn’t be better

08 December 2008
Timber Expo Southeast, the South’s original live logging equipment demo, is returning to South Georgia (Baxley) in 2009!
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Legality certification a first for PNG business

08 December 2008
James Lau, managing director of Rimbunan Hijau (PNG) Group, said that Saban Enterprises Limited, an RH subsidiary company, was the first forestry company in Papua New Guinea to receive certification that the legality of the timber it uses has been independently verified.
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Solidwood exports face worsening prospects

08 December 2008
Gazeta Marcantil/Celulose Online has reported that the solidwood industry in Brazil is being crippled by the impact of the United States housing crisis since early this year.
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