Iceland growing new forests for the first time in 1000 years
25 January 2018
The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25% to 40% forest. Source: National Geographic Within a few centuries, almost all of the island’s trees were slashed and burned to make room for
Continue Reading →Winter storm fells 1.3 million cubic metres of trees in Switzerland
25 January 2018
The amount of wood derived from trees uprooted by storm Eleanor in the first week of January is 1.3 million cubic metres, according to reports from the Swiss federal environment office (BAFU). Source: The Local. Eleanor – known as Burglind in Switzerland – battered Europe from 3-4 Jan
Continue Reading →Hyne and Devcon have it down to a T
25 January 2018
Sunshine Coast builder, Devcon has been named in the Australian Financial Review Fast 100 list for two years in a row, now ranking as the 13th fastest growing company in Australia and the fastest growing builder in Queensland in 2017. Source: Timberbiz Company sales professional, Pete
Continue Reading →Quintis appoints administrators
25 January 2018
Directors of the sandalwood company Quintis have called in administrators. Quintis owns and manages thousands of hectares of Indian sandalwood plantations across northern Australia. Source: ABC News The company has decided to appoint KordaMentha as administrators and it is expected Mc
Continue Reading →Timber and prefab to kick goals again with new projects
25 January 2018
The timber and prefab sector is set to kick goals again this year if a raft of ambitious projects gets the go ahead, among them one of the biggest commercial timber building in the world by volume. Source: The Fifth Estate Adam Strong, group managing director of prefab timber powerhou
Continue Reading →Billion tree planting in doubt
25 January 2018
The New Zealand Government is being accused of an about-turn which could undermine its proposed billion tree planting program and its climate change mitigation goals. Source: Otago Daily Times The Forest Owners Association (FOA) has come out strongly against a Treasury proposal that t
Continue Reading →Logging hours of making wooden furniture
25 January 2018
When Millthorpe furniture maker Rod de Vries purchased 40 hardwood logs last year, those logs set him up for the renewal of his greatest passion, making solid pieces of furniture that show off the timber’s unique properties. Source: Central Western Daily The logs were part of about 11
Continue Reading →Juken jobs may go
25 January 2018
Gisborne New Zealand’s Juken wood processing plant is looking to halve its workforce because of a weak Japanese housing market, affecting about 100 jobs. Source: Gisborne Herald Staff from Juken New Zealand’s timber mill here were told of the proposal to cut production of plywood and
Continue Reading →Negotiations to reopen Prime sawmill in NZ
25 January 2018
Some of the 100 workers faced with losing their jobs at a Gisborne, New Zealand sawmill could find work at nearby mothballed sawmill which plans to reopen. Sources: Stuff NZ, Gisborne Herald Eastland Community Trust (ECT) said it was in the “final stages” of negotiations w
Continue Reading →Pan Pac keeps watch on NZ log prices
25 January 2018
A weather eye is being kept on escalating log prices by Japanese-owned Pan Pac Forest Products, whose Milburn sawmill is becoming one of the largest in Otago. Source: Otago Daily Times Log demand from China, which has steadily pushed up prices for the past 24 months, is beginning to h
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