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Asia-Pacific Forestry Week – certification leads to empowerment

01 July 2019
Empowering communities, managing landscapes and lifting millions from poverty are among key benefits underpinning PEFC forest certification. Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Forestry Week (APFW2019) in South Korea, PEFC International CEO, Ben Gunneberg challenged participants to celebrate
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Female training program to address forestry labour shortages

01 July 2019
The New Zealand Government is supporting a primarily female training program in Northland that will help address labour shortages in the male-dominated forestry industry, this was announced by New Zealand’s Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Employment Minister Wil
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OFO to invest another $19m in Jubilee sawmill

01 July 2019
When OneFortyOne (OFO) took ownership of Mount Gambier’s Jubilee Highway Sawmill in 2018, it not only cemented the company’s commitment to the Green Triangle region, but marked the first of many significant investments to be made at the site. Now the company has announced a further $1
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Malcolm Alexander – 40 years in forestry

01 July 2019
Softwoods Working Group (SWG) congratulated Norske Skog’s Malcolm Alexander on a terrific career, spanning more than 40 years in Australia’s forest industries. Mr Alexander had worked at Norske Skog in Albury where he held senior positions since December of 1993. Source: Timberbiz “Ma
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EPA issues works approval to Australian Paper for EfW

01 July 2019
Australian Paper has confirmed that following a successful VCAT process, EPA Victoria has issued an amended Works Approval for its Energy from Waste (EfW) proposal. The Works Approval is a key component of the proposed $600 million plus EfW facility to be located at Maryvale Mill in t
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Declining softwood chip exports are a ‘canary in the mine’

01 July 2019
 The latest softwood chip export data from Australia demonstrates that the resource is under significant pressure. There are other sectoral pointers. If there is a grade of paper or paperboard in which Australia has real global muscle, it is virgin Kraftliner, manufactured from the re
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Forestry Corp NSW acquires 2000 hectares of pine

01 July 2019
More than 2000 hectares of southern pine plantations near Grafton are now in public hands, after Forestry Corporation of NSW bought the timber rights to plantations established under contract for a private company. General Manager of Forestry Corporation’s Softwood Plantations Divisio
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VEAC’s calculations don’t add up says SETA

01 July 2019
VEAC’s estimate of $270 million in economic value driven by forest protection in Victoria’s Central West is a mathematical fantasy that ignores real money from a functioning timber industry, according to a regional-based forestry group. The South East Timber Association (SETA) said in
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Laos and EU closer to agreement on forest law enforcement

27 June 2019
The EU and Laos concluded the third formal negotiation towards an agreement on a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). The talks took place in Brussels, Belgium from 17-21 June 2019. Source: Timberbiz The Agreement aims to estab
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Grant for 12 research projects with forestry

27 June 2019
The Södra Research Foundation will grant an additional SEK 8.8 million to 12 research projects linked to forestry and the forest industry. The funding was awarded to projects including process development in the pulp industry, recycling textiles and controlling pulpwood flows.  Source
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