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Road upgrades for Southern NSW welcomed

04 September 2018
The push by the Softwood Working Group (SWG), as well as the Snowy Valleys, Greater Hume and Cootamundra-Gundagai Councils, for road upgrades in the key forestry hub that is the South-West Slopes region will ensure appropriate future transport links for forest industries. Source: Timb
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Forestry finally looking up in Tasmania report reveals

04 September 2018
The Tasmanian forest industry is on an even keel after several challenging years, with a new report showing employment and spending have stabilised after a period of decline, and are growing in some parts of the industry. Source: Timberbiz According to the report ‘Socio-economic impac
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Record prices for Australian hardwood chip exports

04 September 2018
June 2018 will be remembered, in the Australian wood resources trade at least, as the month that the average price reached a new record and topped AUDFob200/bdmt for the first time since it crept there for one month only, in March 2010. Source: IndustryEdge for Timberbiz The new recor
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Timberlink $100m investment in regional manufacturing Jobs

04 September 2018
Timberlink has approved a $100 million upgrade program to its Australian sawmills. This generational investment will see the total processing capacity of the Australasian sawmilling company increase by more than 15%. Source: Timberbiz The investment will secure more than 1350 direct a
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Timber industries fight ban on combustible materials on high rises

30 August 2018
The Confederation of Timber Industries (CTI) in the UK has responded to the Government’s proposal on banning the use of combustible materials in cladding systems on high-rise residential buildings. Source: Timberbiz The CTI’s official response focuses on the “ambigui
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Austrian wood for Australian buildings

30 August 2018
At 25 King Street, in Bowen Hills Brisbane there is a 10 storey high office building currently being built with CLT supplied by Stora Enso engineered and processed by Lendlease. Source: Timberbiz In total, the building is using over 6000 cubic meters of CLT and glulam. On an average s
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Wood you like CLT with that?

30 August 2018
McDonald’s recently opened its redesigned flagship store in Chicago and it’s dominated by wood and cross-laminated timber (CLT). Source: Woodworking Network The new building, which opened 9 August on the site of the former Rock N Roll McDonald’s in Chicago’s Ri
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Lithgow push to abolish rate exemption for forestry

30 August 2018
Lithgow City Council is supporting a push from Local Government NSW to abolish the rate exemption from Forestry land. Source: Lithgow Mercury Lithgow council has estimated that the value of foregone rates on Forestry lands in the Lithgow LGA is $414,000 per annum. “A rate exemption cu
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Melbourne Uni to close forestry rural campus

30 August 2018
More than 100 years of history is effectively over according to a Creswick forestry graduate who fears the loss of the University of Melbourne’s rural campus. Source: The Courier The university has released plans to relocate much of the forestry school to its Parkville campus due a de
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Forestry take on Overseas Investment Amendment Act

30 August 2018
On 22 August 2018, the Overseas Investment Amendment Act 2018 (Amendment Act) became law in New Zealand. The new laws will come into force on or before 22 October 2018. Source: Mondaq As well as bringing “residential land” within the Overseas Investment Act, the Amendment
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