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New stronger innovative egg packaging

24 June 2024
Cascades has launched an innovative and complete packaging solution that is reinventing the egg landscape: Cascades Fresh GUARD EnVision. Source: Timberbiz This eco-designed packaging offers robust protection while opening impactful visual possibilities. Its sleeve openings and high-q
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Work commences on new JCB factory in the US

24 June 2024
JCB has started work on its new US$500 million factory in North America, the biggest-ever investment in the company’s history. Source: Timberbiz The start of construction was signalled at an official groundbreaking ceremony at the site in San Antonio, Texas, where The Hon Alice Bamfor
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Biden proposing new protection on old forests

24 June 2024
The Biden administration is proposing new protections for old-growth forests but stopping short of blocking all logging of the carbon-storing plants. Source: The Hill The Forest Service proposed to limit the culling of these mature trees in national forests, stoking ire from some in t
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Pan Pac joins NZ PM in Japan

24 June 2024
Pan Pac Forest Products Managing Director Tony Clifford is currently accompanying Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on a visit to Japan as part of a senior New Zealand business delegation. Source: Timberbiz Pan Pac is one of New Zealand’s largest integrated forest products company and
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Cattle industry says clearing bushland grown after 1990 should not count as deforestation

24 June 2024
Environmentalists have accused Cattle Australia of trying to use ‘loophole’ in international definitions to gain deforestation a free status. Cattle Australia has argued that clearing forests which have grown after 1990 should not be considered deforestation by international supply ch
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NZ High Court says stronger rules on sediment discharge unnecessary

24 June 2024
Forest growers in the New Zealand’s Canterbury region say the High Court’s ruling on sediment discharge and water yield rules provides certainty and consistency in environmental controls for growers across the country. Source: Timberbiz The High Court has determined that the Canterbur
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New recipients of traceability grants announced including forestry

24 June 2024
Eleven new projects will share $4 million worth of funding in round three of the Australian Government’s Traceability Grants Program. The program supports collaborative projects that enhance traceability systems to support our agricultural export supply chains. Source: Timberbiz One o
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Activists arrested in Tasmanian forest

24 June 2024
A five-week forest protest in the Tarkine has intensified after activists attached themselves to a Sustainable Timber Tasmania (STT) car, leading police to swoop in and arrest them. Source: Hobart Mercury Bob Brown Foundation (BBF) protesters are currently maintaining a presence in th
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Trainee saw doctors at AKD

24 June 2024
A group of TAFE NSW Tumut saw technician apprentices – including a 63-year-old trainee – have had a firsthand glimpse of one of the region’s powerhouse sawmills in action as part of a special visit last month. Source: Timberbiz The group of Certificate III in Saw Technology students,
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Pentarch closes pallet mill due to Vic Government native timber decision

24 June 2024
Pentarch Forestry’s pallet mill in Dandenong will cease operating next month due to a shortage of hardwood timber so 700,000 Australian-made hardwood pallets will be taken out of circulation thanks to a Victorian Government decision. Source: Timberbiz The mill, which had been operatin
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