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Responsible wood features at Food, Fibre and Ag conference

24 January 2019
Forest & Wood Products Australia (FWPA), ForestLearning and Responsible Wood took part in a number of trade displays, bus tours and interactive workshops during a recent 5-day Food, Fibre and Agricultural Educators conference. Source: Timberbiz They took the forestry and wood mess
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Hyne GLT used for diagrid for Queensland turtles

24 January 2019
Kirk Architects and Hyne Timber have been chosen to build a new centre known as a ‘diagrid’ for turtles in Queensland using Spotted Gum. The Mon Repos structure itself is known as a ‘diagrid’ which presents an innovative resistance against cyclonic conditions. It is believed to be the
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Robotic webinar for wall panel production

24 January 2019
On Wednesday 30 January 2019, Randek is holding a webinar presentation with a detailed review of the ZeroLabor Robotic System which is used to make open or closed wall panels that can be taken to site (panelised construction) or used to efficiently build volumetric modules. Source: Ti
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Top 5: Market Points from IndustryEdge

24 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 31.7% of China’s ha
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Wood processors working together for energy efficiency

24 January 2019
The most efficient use of existing wood resources in regional New Zealand is to cluster wood processors in places with significant forestry resources. There, they can use forestry residues as feedstock for other products or for heat in wood processors or other industries. Sources: Tim
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WA Forest Products Commission tenders

24 January 2019
  The Forest Products Commission in Western Australia (FPC) is currently running tenders for the sale of karri and marri industrial wood, auditing and certification services and the provision of forestry inventory services. Source: Timberbiz The FPC is seeking submissions to ente
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Robots employed to carve wood

22 January 2019
Students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have used the oldest material available and the newest in robotics to create a temporary art installation in the centre of the campus. The Wander Wood Pavilion, a wooden curved rounded shell that forms into a bench, was a collaborat
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Big Data to offer solutions for sustainable forestry

22 January 2019
A pilot initiative has offered a new solution for sustainable forestry. It’s part of a series of activities that handle massive data flows collected through sensors and aerial and satellite imagery. The importance of a well-functioning bioeconomy is increasingly recognised in addressi
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China reporting: hardwood chip import record

22 January 2019
China’s imports of hardwood chips totalled a record 3.442 million bone dried metric tonnes (bdmt) over the three months to the end of November. Nine months after China’s trade data ‘went dark’ as part of its strategy in the trade war with the US, IndustryEdge has advised that limited
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 HIA new home sales drop to lowest level since 2012 

22 January 2019
HIA New Home Sales continued the declining trend that we saw throughout most of 2018 according to Geordan Murray, HIA Senior Economist. The HIA New Home Sales Report shows detached house sales fell by 6.7% in the final month of 2018. Source: Timberbiz “Sales during the final quarter o
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