WoodSolutions Seminar: Residential Timber Framing
29 September 2016
A free WoodSolutions seminar to be held on 26 October is a must if you design, specify, install or inspect timber framing, decorative timber and connections for residential projects. Source: Timberbiz This will be your chance to listen to the industry leaders and architects to be insp
Continue Reading →TABMA special dates
29 September 2016
The Annual General Meeting of the Timber & Building Materials Association (Aust) Ltd (TABMA) will be held in Sydney on Thursday, 3 November. Source: Timberbiz Notice of the meeting will be sent to all members on 10 October and members are especially invited to attend. Queensland I
Continue Reading →Private native forests critical to future timber supply
29 September 2016
Private native forests of southern Queensland are extensive and critical to the future supply of timber to the processing sector. Source: Timberbiz However, the majority of the private resource is unmanaged regrowth
Continue Reading →Softwood rises with weaker dollar
22 September 2016
Softwood lumber prices have trended upward in the first six months 2016 because of higher demand and a weaker dollar. Sources: Timberbiz, Business Wire Demand for softwood lumber has gone up in many markets around the world in 2016, resulting in a substantial increase in global lumber
Continue Reading →Canada and US continue a softwood war
22 September 2016
Canada and the United States are on the brink of yet another softwood lumber war, fuelled by a drastic jump in BC lumber exports to the US and growing anti-trade sentiment. Source: The Squamish Chief American sawmillers say they are ready to fire the first shot in what would be the fi
Continue Reading →Tulipwood brings a smile to London
22 September 2016
Visitors to the London Design Festival can experience an unusual curved wooden building called The Smile. Source: Inhabitat Designed by Alison Brooks of Alison Brooks Architects, the sloping structure demonstrates the potential of CLT, which Brooks says is “stronger than concret
Continue Reading →NZ Super Fund not super but good forestry investment
22 September 2016
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has made less than 2% on its investments in the year to June, reflecting the negative returns from global equities. Source: Radio New Zealand The fund, which is designed to help pay for national superannuation payments from 2032, grew 1.89% by just
Continue Reading →WA is leading in forestry and softwood
22 September 2016
The WA Government is leading Australia in promoting forestry and the expansion of softwood plantations, according to the industry’s peak lobby group. Source: The West Australian Australian Forest Products Association chief executive Ross Hampton said the industry was delighted with pl
Continue Reading →Biomass discussion in Tasmania
22 September 2016
Anyone who works or walks in Tasmanian bush knows there are two certainties: it will grow and some will burn in bushfires said Ross Hampton chief executive of the Australian Forest Products Association in an article for The Mercury. Source: The Mercury Biomass power uses this renewabl
Continue Reading →Copycat Chinese held to account
22 September 2016
In March 2014, a family-run engineering business in north-eastern Victoria found its successful portable sawmill — exported to more than 100 countries worldwide — was featured on a Chinese website. But it was not their machine, but a near exact imitation. Source: ABC News “We
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