Push for wooden buildings to outlive earthquakes
09 February 2017
Jon Tanner, chief executive of the Wood Processors and Manufacturers Association says a wooden building weighs less than a steel concrete structure with obvious benefits in both construction and resilience in an earthquake. Source: Stuff NZ After all it is standard for aircraft compon
Continue Reading →MobileTECH in March
09 February 2017
In just under two months, Rotorua will be playing host to nearly 300 industry representatives from throughout the primary industries sector when MobileTECH arrives. Source: Timberbiz MobileTECH 2017 is a major industry conference focusing on new technologies and innovations designed a
Continue Reading →New Deputy MD at HIA
09 February 2017
The Housing Industry Association has appointed Graham Wolfe as Deputy Managing Director. Source: Timberbiz “The position of Deputy Managing Director is a new role within the Association,” said HIA’s Managing Director, Shane Goodwin. “This new position reflects the rapidly evolving, dy
Continue Reading →Heyfield Mill not the only one in trouble
09 February 2017
Australian Sustainable Hardwoods is not the only local business sweating on a new long-term supply deal for the Heyfield sawmill. Source: Latrobe Valley Express Morwell-based operation Fisher’s Timber Preservation receives 40% of its business treating ASH product and is at risk of clo
Continue Reading →Alternate facts of VicForests timber supply
09 February 2017
The state-owned company wants to halve the timber supply for Australia’s largest hardwood mill despite admitting a huge amount of forest is still available for commercial use. Source: The Advertiser The former chief executive of VicForests, Robert Green, told a meeting of the state’s
Continue Reading →Tall timber buildings becoming the norm
09 February 2017
Australia’s largest timber building will call Brisbane home in a deal worth $140 million between developer Lendlease and the Liberman family-backed Impact Investment Group. Sources: Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review Known as 5 King, the property will be one the final
Continue Reading →Free Native Forest Management Field Day
09 February 2017
On Saturday February 18, the Private Forestry Service Queensland (PFSQ) is holding an on-location event to look at the impacts of thinning of forest health, productivity, economic returns and grazing. Source: Timberbiz The event to be held on Warren Tobin’s property near Gin Gin will
Continue Reading →VAFI and AFPA welcome RFA in Gippsland
09 February 2017
The Victorian Association of Forest Industries (VAFI), has welcomed the extension of the East Gippsland Regional Forest Agreement as has the Australian Forest Products Association. Source: Timberbiz The East Gippsland RFA amendment for the extension was signed by the Prime Minister, t
Continue Reading →Not a Patch on this WAN winner
02 February 2017
There is a lot to love about Patch22, the tallest wood building in the Netherlands, which just won a World Architecture News Residential award as best building of 2016. Source: Treehugger The 100 foot tall, seven storey building in an Amsterdam industrial area is designed by Tom Frant
Continue Reading →Severe shortage of forestry workers in Japan
02 February 2017
Japan is suffering a severe shortage of forestry workers at a time when many trees planted after World War II have grown enough and now need to be cut down. Source: The Japan Times Demand for domestic timber is expected to grow partly for use in facilities related to the 2020 Tokyo Ol
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