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DesignBUILD

19 February 2015
DesignBUILD 2015 will open up a new world of opportunities for the sustainable building industry in Australia with the display of new products and technologies from overseas markets. Source: Architecture & Design The event returns to the Sydney Showground at Sydney Olympic Park th
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Frame Australia 2015

19 February 2015
The Frame Australia 2015 theme is ‘Building with engineered wood construction systems’, primarily for designers and builders. Source: Timberbiz “There is a positive trend to using more timber, and commercial builders are looking to timber and wood construction systems for multi-reside
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Conservationists offer $90k for WA forest

19 February 2015
WA’S forests minister has rejected an offer of $90,000 from conservationists to “buy back” a Margaret River forest where logging is underway. Source: Perth Now (pic courtesy Twitter) Protesters including celebrities Ben Elton, Ian Parmenter and John Butler travelled to Parliament Hous
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UN deforestation program hits Indonesian snag

12 February 2015
A United Nations program to curb deforestation and carbon emissions in Indonesia has improved forest management, but is being hampered by a “political economy based on forest destruction,” according to a New Zealand researcher. Source: Global Post Dr Andrew McGregor, of Vi
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Forest 500 Ranks Deforestation Policies

12 February 2015
Only six major companies – Danone, Kao Corp, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt, Benckiser Group, Unilever and HSBC – and one investor, banking and financial services giant HSBC, have comprehensive policies in place to protect tropical forests, according to Global Canopy Programme.
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Masfen-backed wood firm with receivers

12 February 2015
Pacific T & R, a company backed by Peter Masfen is in the hands of receivers. It was set up in 2012 and is building a timber processing plant in Taupo that extracts resin from waste pine stumps and separates it into other products. Source: The New Zealand Herald But the money ran
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Nelson Forests under fire

12 February 2015
Nelson Forests of New Zealand could face a multimillion-dollar insurance bill after a fire that started on its property destroyed vast tracts of farm and forest land in Marlborough. Sources: Stuff, Nelson Mail The amount is still climbing as surrounding property owners in the Onamalut
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Payments at Gunn point

12 February 2015
Almost two and a half years after Gunns collapsed, up to 300 Tasmanian farmers who leased land to the timber giant are still waiting to be paid. Source: Stock & Land Farmers who entered agreements to have plantation trees grown on their land have lost between $16 million and $20 m
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Hitachi’s New Site

12 February 2015
Hitachi Construction Machinery Australia (HCA) has launched a new website with enhanced features. Source: Timberbiz National marketing communications manager, Amanda Michael said the enhanced functionality includes a dealer locator incorporating GPS technology that means customers are
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Commercial thinning field day

12 February 2015
The Private Forestry Service Queensland (PSFQ) is holding a tour and discussion in a eucalypt plantation to explore the logistics, markets and long-term effects of a commercial thinning operation currently in progress. Source: Timberbiz Join the PSFQ on Saturday, 21 February 8am to no
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