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NZ log exports down 6.3% in 2020

15 February 2021
New Zealand’s log exports declined 6.3% in 2020, falling to 20.080 million m3 in the tumultuous year. As the year drew to a close, exports in December totalled 1.845 million m3, down 4.4% on the prior month but a solid 8.6% higher than exports recorded in December 2019. Source: Indust
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Tree M program catalogs wooded areas for fire mitigation

12 February 2021
Karin Riley, a fire researcher at the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, helped develop Tree M computer program that catalogs data for wooded areas across the Continental United States. The program researchers and fire crews to study and react to fire patterns for better
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Sumitomo Forestry expands its housing interests in US

10 February 2021
Sumitomo Forestry’s United States subsidiary Gehan Homes has signed a business acquisition agreement with CDL Homes which operates a housing business in the Denver region of Colorado. Source: Timberbiz This marks the Sumitomo Forestry Group’s first foray into the Denver region for its
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Myanmar seeks international support for questionable timber industry

10 February 2021
In the midst of political chaos following the military coup of the government in Myanmar, the country’s forestry sector is seeking legitimization from the international community. A statement from the nationally privatized Myanmar Forest Products and Timber Merchants Association (MFPT
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Sweden develops autonomous planting machine

10 February 2021
Vinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency, together with the forest industry and researchers, will invest 20 million SEK (approx. 2 million EURO) on development of an autonomous planting system, the Autoplant. The project aims to improve forest planting with regard to precision, environment
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Steve Jobs’ wooden Apple to sell for £1.1m

08 February 2021
An original Apple computer with a wooden case is up for sale for £1.1 million on eBay, some 2250 times more than its original price tag in 1976. The ‘Apple-1’ was the first product to be developed under the Apple name by company co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and
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US State Foresters 10-year Forest Action Plan on YouTube

08 February 2021
State foresters in the US are celebrating the completion of the 10-year Forest Action Plan revisions with videos depicting their agencies at work in support of forest health, resiliency, and productivity. Source: Timberbiz The National Association of State Foresters has announced the
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EU foresters concerned with Green Deal

08 February 2021
On 3 February, the main stakeholder organisations representing the forestry sector met with the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, to discuss the sector’s growing concerns on the way in which the implementation of the EU Green Deal currently addresses f
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Australian log exports fall to five year low

08 February 2021
IndustryEdge has stated that Australia’s log exports fell to a five-year low in December 2020, down 47% on the prior December and totalling just 196,519 m3. The dramatic fall saw exports 34% lower than for November, which was itself 32% lower than exports in October. Source: IndustryE
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Ross Hampton takes his chair on the FOA Advisory Council

08 February 2021
Incoming Chair of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s forestry advisory council, Ross Hampton, says the world’s renewable timber and forestry sectors must be turbo-charged if we are to have any chance of achieving the global goal of ‘Carbon Neutral by 2050’. Source: Timberbiz M
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