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Responsible Wood joins UN & Australia Sustainable Partnerships Forum

19 February 2021
Responsible Wood will participate in the UN & Australia Sustainable Partnerships Forum, which to be delivered virtually on April 20 and 21. With a focus on the 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) ratified by all United Nations Members States in 2015, the forum will bring to
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Nursery regenerating Sugar Pines for next generation

19 February 2021
Owners of the Batlow based Gould’s nursery are happy to report that natural regeneration from Bago State Forest has been successfully propagated for a new Sugar Pine planting. The Sugar Pine Walk was sadly destroyed in Dunns Road fire. Gould’s Nursery is working with Forestry Corporat
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Barilaro says Labor and Greens delaying bushfire victims’ funds

19 February 2021
NSW Labor and the Greens have been accused of actively preventing bushfire victims from receiving their share of $250 million in disaster recovery funding by playing political games in the NSW Legislative Council. Source: Timberbiz Despite the NSW Government’s best efforts to roll out
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Harvesting resumes on South Coast despite negotiations with EPA

19 February 2021
Timber harvesting is resuming on the South Coast of New South Wales and Eden.  Daniel Tuan, General Manager Hardwood Forests, said the Forestry Corporation had been working constructively with the Environment Protection Authority for the past 15 months to negotiate site-specific opera
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Opinion Vic Jurskis: Too many experts spoil the bushfire picture

19 February 2021
The Bushfires Royal Commission totally failed to address the absence of sustainable land management which led to Black Summer. It didn’t even properly fulfill its requirement to consider the outcomes of previous Inquiries, stopping short at the 2004 COAG Report by two academics
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Friday analysis: EPA and Bob Brown Foundation both interfering with work

19 February 2021
In what can only be good news, timber harvesting is resuming on the South Coast of New South Wales and Eden. The news will come as a relief to the mills that have run out of logs to process and were close to laying off workers and closing. Source: Bruce Mitchell The news will also com
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Reaching for the Sky in first multi-storey commercial UK timber building

17 February 2021
At its headquarters in West London, satellite broadcaster Sky has built a new educational facility using PEFC-certified engineered timber. Under the banner of Believe in Better Buildings (BiBB), the building reflects the company’s sustainable aspirations. Source: Timberbiz As the firs
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Biomass by Airbus

17 February 2021
Biomass is taking shape at Airbus’ site in Stevenage, with the Structure Model Platform completed. Biomass is an ESA Earth Explorer mission due to launch in 2022. It will measure forest biomass to assess terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes for five years. Sources: Spatial Source, Tim
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CM Labs partners Tigercat for simulator development

17 February 2021
CM Labs Simulations, developer of Vortex training simulators, has entered into a partnership agreement with Tigercat Industries to develop and supply state-of-the-art simulators that replicate the functionality and behaviour of the 20-tonne Tigercat 1075C log forwarder and the Tigerca
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Global container freight rates skyrocket with surcharges

17 February 2021
Global container freight rates continued to sky-rocket into the new year as major freight companies applied surcharges for premium service that some are calling ‘extortionate’. Source: IndustryEdge Early January discussion with two major importers to Australia included comments that t
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