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Southwood processing site damaged in Tas fires

31 January 2019
In a report by ABC News, Tasmanian communities south of Hobart remained at threat from uncontrolled bushfires, with unconfirmed reports of property damage. The Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) said the fire danger rating reached severe and “exceeded forecast conditions”. Crews
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Pay a good rate for tree planters and they will come

31 January 2019
Pay decent rates and the forestry workers will come, a silviculture contractor says, as the industry struggles to attract staff to meet the New Zealand Government’s one billion trees program. Bay of Plenty silviculture contractor Simon Geddes said rates for those planting trees
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WA grants for farmers establishing pine plantations

31 January 2019
WA Forestry Minister Dave Kelly has opened up grants to farmers and other landowners who are interested in establishing pine plantations on their properties to increase Western Australia’s softwood resource. Source: Timberbiz The Minister launched the second round of the grants
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Recognised plant biosecurity champion at Australia Day Awards

31 January 2019
Assistant Secretary of Plant Import Operations, Lois Ransom, has been awarded a Public Service Medal in recognition of her outstanding public service through the strengthening of Australia’s plant biosecurity system. Acting Head of Biosecurity, Dr Marion Healy, said Mrs Ransom has dev
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Top 5: Market Points from IndustryEdge

31 January 2019
Every month, IndustryEdge publishes Wood Market Edge, Australia’s only forestry and wood products market and trade analysis, and supplies its customers with hundreds of unique data products, advisory and consulting services. Find out more at www.industryedge.com.au 130,526 m3 – Austra
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Private Native Forestry – An Open letter to Queensland Government

31 January 2019
The Queensland Hardwood Timber Industry is coming under increasing pressure from many directions. Demand for timber products is increasing at a rapid rate and Queensland has the potential to become a significant supplier and processor of world-class, sustainable and durable wood. Sour
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Sweetwoods for biomaterials on an industrial scale

29 January 2019
Sweetwoods a project made up of nine European companies, is to begin producing wood-based biomaterials for the first time on an industrial scale. This unique €43 million bio-economy project, funded by the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) is now underway, with its key ai
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Forestry must seize climate change opportunity

29 January 2019
The UK Government will not meet its climate change targets without a significant increase in tree planting and far greater use of timber in construction. That was the clear message from Lord Deben, Chair of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), when he addressed the All-Party Parliam
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Tokyo Olympic pavilion to be engineered wood

29 January 2019
Finland will build a pavilion made of engineered wood from Finnish forestry giant Metsa Group as the country’s business, sporting and marketing centre during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Metsa pavilion, which will be made of Kerto LVL products, will be located at the Finnish Embassy i
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ABARES Outlook conference 2019

29 January 2019
The ABARES Outlook 2019 conference will be held in Canberra on 5-6 March 2019 with industry speakers and producers providing access to the latest industry analysis and insights to enable strategic business planning. Source: Timberbiz Outlook 2019 is focused on the outlook for Australi
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