VAFI dinner date
01 February 2018
The Victorian Association of Forest Industries has announced the date for its annual dinner, a premier event for the state’s forest and wood products industry and of particular significance with 2018 being a state election year. Source: Timberbiz The 2018 event will be held on Friday
Continue Reading →Komatsu to acquire Quadco and Southstar operations
01 February 2018
Komatsu president and CEO Tetsuji Ohashi has signed an agreement to acquire from Prenbec Equipment, a company based in Quebec, Canada, the Quadco and Southstar forestry attachment operations. Source: Timberbiz This sale excludes the forestry equipment businesses of Tanguay and Forespr
Continue Reading →Forest industries welcome mill investment in Tasmania’s north
01 February 2018
The Forest Industries Association of Tasmania (FIAT) and the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) welcome the $190 million investment in what will be Australia’s largest plantation hardwood mill and timber product manufacturing facility. Source: Timberbiz The facility is to b
Continue Reading →Iceland growing new forests for the first time in 1000 years
25 January 2018
The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25% to 40% forest. Source: National Geographic Within a few centuries, almost all of the island’s trees were slashed and burned to make room for
Continue Reading →Winter storm fells 1.3 million cubic metres of trees in Switzerland
25 January 2018
The amount of wood derived from trees uprooted by storm Eleanor in the first week of January is 1.3 million cubic metres, according to reports from the Swiss federal environment office (BAFU). Source: The Local. Eleanor – known as Burglind in Switzerland – battered Europe from 3-4 Jan
Continue Reading →Hyne and Devcon have it down to a T
25 January 2018
Sunshine Coast builder, Devcon has been named in the Australian Financial Review Fast 100 list for two years in a row, now ranking as the 13th fastest growing company in Australia and the fastest growing builder in Queensland in 2017. Source: Timberbiz Company sales professional, Pete
Continue Reading →Quintis appoints administrators
25 January 2018
Directors of the sandalwood company Quintis have called in administrators. Quintis owns and manages thousands of hectares of Indian sandalwood plantations across northern Australia. Source: ABC News The company has decided to appoint KordaMentha as administrators and it is expected Mc
Continue Reading →Timber and prefab to kick goals again with new projects
25 January 2018
The timber and prefab sector is set to kick goals again this year if a raft of ambitious projects gets the go ahead, among them one of the biggest commercial timber building in the world by volume. Source: The Fifth Estate Adam Strong, group managing director of prefab timber powerhou
Continue Reading →Billion tree planting in doubt
25 January 2018
The New Zealand Government is being accused of an about-turn which could undermine its proposed billion tree planting program and its climate change mitigation goals. Source: Otago Daily Times The Forest Owners Association (FOA) has come out strongly against a Treasury proposal that t
Continue Reading →Logging hours of making wooden furniture
25 January 2018
When Millthorpe furniture maker Rod de Vries purchased 40 hardwood logs last year, those logs set him up for the renewal of his greatest passion, making solid pieces of furniture that show off the timber’s unique properties. Source: Central Western Daily The logs were part of about 11
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