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Kiwibuild calls on prefab industry

25 June 2018
The New Zealand government will be inviting companies to set up or expand offsite manufacturing factories to make KiwiBuild homes, indicating it may rely on prefabricated manufacturing to build its promised 100,000 affordable homes. Source: NZ Adviser Housing and Urban Development Min
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19th Australian Timber Design Awards

25 June 2018
There is still time to enter your creations, but hurry 19th Australian Timber Design Awards entries close 6 July 2018. Source: Timberbiz The Awards are organised under three timber design categories Timber Design, Merits, and Timber Products. Your entry may also be nominated for any M
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Diversity in speakers at Canberra Forest Conference

25 June 2018
Landscape architecture, marketing, carbon and plantations are just some of the topics that will be canvassed in the 2018 IFA/AFG Conference – Forests for healthy cities, farms and people being held in Canberra from 2-5 September. Source: Timberbiz The variety of speakers and views wil
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Forestry sector the key to reducing greenhouse emissions

25 June 2018
Australia’s forestry sector could reduce the Federal Government’s 2030 greenhouse emissions target by almost a quarter if the right policies are put in place, according to an industry body. By Philip Hopkins for Timberbiz Forestry could take 18 million tonnes (megatonnes) of greenhous
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Undisturbed ancient rainforest in an African volcano

21 June 2018
Standing in a pit in the red soil of a mountaintop forest in northern Mozambique, Dr Simon Willcock was dirty but very excited. “Undisturbed forest is incredibly rare,” he said. “That is why we scaled a 125-metre-tall cliff with a pickaxe.”  Source: The Guardian Willcock, from Bangor
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DNA database will trace illegal logging

21 June 2018
Jakub Bednarek headed into the forest near his home in Leavenworth, Washington, and collected samples of maple leaves to send to a lab for DNA analysis. Mr Bednarek, who also works as a biologist in his day job, is one of 150 volunteers in a project that stretches along the Pacific Co
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Demand for sawn softwood remains satisfactory in Europe

21 June 2018
The sawn softwood production of most European sawmills is currently at a high level due to the increased demand for structural timber in Europe and continuing brisk demand in the USA and China, among others. Source: Euwid This can be seen in the 2017/2018 Annual Report of the European
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Australian designers in Tulipwood

21 June 2018
Eight of Australia’s most highly regarded designers have re-imagined their works in American tulipwood. The designs were launched at Denfair, one of Australia’s premier design showcases, in Melbourne from 14-16 June 2018. Source: Timberbiz Anne-Claire Petre, Adam Goodrum, Adam Markowi
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Kauri in the High Court

21 June 2018
The Northland Environmental Protection Society has argued in the New Zealand High Court and the Court of Appeal that it is unlawful to send swamp kauri overseas in the form of table tops and slabs. Source: Radio New Zealand Those courts have rejected the society’s arguments, say
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NZ forest industry progresses with Overseas Investment Act amendments

21 June 2018
Forest Owners say the government’s announcement that the Overseas Investment Act would be amended to cut out red tape is a very positive signal to potential investors. Source: Timberbiz FOA President Peter Weir says though he still can’t see the point of including cutting rights, inst
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