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Low interest rates drives up pine prices

19 November 2015
Record low interest rates and greater housing construction are driving up the price of Australian pine trees, according to Australia’s largest forestry investment company. Source: ABC Rural A new report released by the Federal Government indicates Australia’s housing const
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Rising housing market good for Qld timber

19 November 2015
The Queensland timber industry says the sector has benefited from the rising housing market, but the challenge of competing with cheaper imports is ongoing. Source: ABC Rural The most recent Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) Australian fore
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New markets for Tas soft and hardwood timber

19 November 2015
Activity in Tasmania’s plantation forestry sector is picking up after a deep and prolonged downturn. Tas Land and Forest managing director Kent Lyon said new markets for soft and hardwood timber were emerging. Source: ABC Rural “We’re very busy and markets are good,&
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Mpavillion design event timbers

19 November 2015
Britton Timbers has supplied the architectural timber used for the MPavilion, the annual architecture commission and design event in Melbourne. MPavilion partnered with Britton Timbers this year for the supply of timber for the project. Founded in 2014, MPavilion is an initiative of t
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Marlborough sawmills back in business after fires

19 November 2015
Two Marlborough sawmills are back in action following fires last month. A fuel bin caught fire at Timberlink New Zealand, off Battys Rd in Blenheim while three fire appliances were called to the Kaituna Sawmill on October 24. Source: Stuff.co.nz It took firefighters more than four hou
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Scion first to use out of sight drones

19 November 2015
Scion, the forestry Crown research institute, will become the first organisation in New Zealand to fly drones beyond line of sight when it seeks approval under new Civil Aviation Authority rules to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for forest monitoring. Source: The National Busines
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TFS looking at more markets

19 November 2015
Indian sandalwood oil producer Tropical Forestry Services (TFS) is poised to break into new markets thanks to an expected 10-fold increase in the size of its next harvest. Source: ABC Rural The company, which has an Indian sandalwood plantation in Kununurra, in the far north of Wester
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Australia’s oldest sawmill on struggle street

19 November 2015
Trees from the nearby Wirrabara Forest Reserve and Bundaleer Forest Reserve – a combined 10,000 hectares of forest – are brought in to the Morgan Saw Mill in Jamestown every day to be fed through heavy circular saws, leaving behind a small mountain of wood chips. Source: A
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New Forest’s port development on Kangaroo Island

19 November 2015
Australia’s largest forest investment manager New Forests is investigating port development options at Ballast Head, near American River on Kangaroo Island, at a site formerly used for shipping gypsum and before that for loading ballast on to sailing ships. Source: Adelaide Now New Fo
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EPA fines NSW Forestry

19 November 2015
A failure to implement effective erosion and sediment control measures at Tuckers Nob has resulted in Forestry Corporation of NSW being fined $15,000 by the NSW Environment Protection Authority. Sources: The Coffs Coast Advocate, ABC News From September to November last year, FCNSW un
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