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Kimberly-Clark new Asia-Pacific president

14 January 2020
Kimberly-Clark Corporation has announced executive leadership changes to accelerate the company’s progress toward achieving its K-C Strategy 2022 goals. Aaron Powell, President of Kimberly-Clark Professional, has been named President of Kimberly-Clark’s Asia-Pacific consum
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South American company’s new record pulp production

14 January 2020
South American company Celulose Nipo-Brasileira (CENIBRA) has set a new annual production record in 2019 with an output of 1,222,888 tons of bleached eucalyptus hardwood pulp. This figure is 16,676 tons above its budget. Source: Timberbiz According to Júlio César Tôrres Ribeiro, Indus
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World sales of European laminate flooring sees upturn

14 January 2020
In 2019, the worldwide sales of the European Producers of Laminate Flooring (EPLF) members was 447 million m² of laminate flooring from European production. The second half of 2019 witnessed an upturn and it is stabilizing at a high level, even through the influence of a declining wor
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Boral Timber workers unlimited paid leave to help fight fires

14 January 2020
Boral Timber, along with all Boral divisions, has offered unlimited paid leave to its employees who are responding to the bushfire crisis. The company has people in many communities affected by the disaster, the company has also supplied equipment to the firefighting efforts. Source:
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AFPA looks to working with Victorian Government to reduce bushfires

14 January 2020
The Australian Forest Products Association has paid tribute to the thousands of forestry industry workers and contractors who have been working tirelessly for months fighting fires. Source: Timberbiz “While we are all rightly applauding the volunteer fire fighters in the various state
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Young NZ forestry intern battling Australian fires

14 January 2020
A Canterbury University student could be the youngest New Zealander helping to fight the bush fires raging across Australia. Fergus Simpson, 22, planned to spend his summer in New South Wales on a forestry internship with the Forestry Corporation, but little did he know it would evolv
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Victorian logging road receives funding for upgrade

14 January 2020
The Victorian Labor Government is boosting safety at a notorious narrow road in Victoria’s south-west with a major upgrade on Dunkeld-Cavendish Road, this is a major link between the Glenelg and Henty highways which sees the transportation of timber. Source: Timberbiz Acting Minister
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Privatisation of NSW forestry in jeopardy due to fires

14 January 2020
The $1bn privatisation of NSW forestry assets has been placed in jeopardy by the bushfires, with large swaths of the land already burned out and the plan unlikely to proceed if the damage is too extensive. Source: Timberbiz A scoping study announced in August is expected to continue t
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Royal Commission on bushfires – bring it on

14 January 2020
Plans by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to take a proposal to Cabinet to establish a royal commission into the current catastrophic bushfires have been generally welcomed by the timber industry. Source: Timberbiz Climate change, and how to better prepare and adapt for the “new normal” 
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Bushfires update – cooler, wetter weather on the horizon

14 January 2020
Firefighters in Eastern Australia are capitalising on calmer weather conditions forecast for the rest of this week with authorities still unable to accurately assess the damage to harvestable timber stocks. Source: Timberbiz In Victoria, where fires have burned an estimated 1.2 millio
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