Tumbarumba apprentice Steven Arnold has won an award for being a doctor, but a doctor of a very different type. Source: Tumbarumba Times The Hyne Timber Tumbarumba Mill worker received the Saw Doctor Apprentice of the Year award from Tumut TAFE when he attained his certificate in Saw
Amendments to Western Australia’s Forest Products Act 2000 that will allow the Forest Products Commission (FPC) to trade in carbon assets has passed through State Parliament. Source: Timberbiz Until now, the FPC’s functions were restricted to dealing with forest products, which
Dr Sam Van Holsbeeck from the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Forest Research Institute has won the Blue-Sky Young Researcher Innovation Award. Source: Timberbiz Organised by the Australian Forest Products Association, the Australian national competition is the first stage o
A lot has changed in the building of tall timber buildings since the last Timber Offsite Construction conference in 2019. At that conference tall timber buildings were being presented as something of a “novelty”. Source: Timberbiz Three years and a pandemic later they are almost, if n
Let’s get one thing very clear from the start: WA Premier Mark McGowan’s decision to ban native forest harvesting in the south-west “because the trees have stopped growing and must be saved to store carbon” is nothing but a load of rubbish. McGowan, flanked by Forestry Minister Dave K
Much is made, post Federal and State elections, of retired or even defeated former Ministers landing plush consulting jobs or directorships. All sides of politics carry out the game, usually making disparaging comments about “jobs for the boys” and so on. Sometimes the criticism is we
The South Australian Government will build one of its five new technical colleges in Mount Gambier and the new building will be co-located with the TAFE campus and the University of South Australia campus. Source: Timberbiz “Co-locating our new technical college at the Mt Gambier TAFE
She’s the Grand Old Lady of the Tamar, some would say with a chequered past, but Long Reach Mill in the East Tamar celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this week, with pizza and cake shared by staff and management on the deck. Source: Timberbiz First opened in 1972 under the ownership
The next evolution of The Ultimate Renewable campaign soon will be unveiled. The brand’s latest consumer advertising campaign is all set to launch, headed up by a new brand ambassador. Source: Timberbiz As part of the first consumer-related marketing activity for the brand since the p
The man credited with creating the wood chip industry, Pat Lamb, has been honoured at the Green Triangle Timber Industries Awards as an Industry Legend. The awards were presented at a gala event held at The Barn in Mount Gambier last week being held over from October last year because