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Responsible Wood to tour NZ in preparation for joint standard

07 February 2019
Responsible Wood will travel to New Zealand as impetus builds towards an historic joint Australian and New Zealand standard for Sustainable Forest Management. Meeting with New Zealand government officials, the New Zealand Green Building Council and a range of PEFC accredited Sustainab
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Wespine opens largest single capacity kiln in Australia

07 February 2019
The biggest single capacity continuous timber kiln in Australia was opened in Dardanup on 6 February 2019. The Wespine-operated facility has the capacity to dry 180,000cu/m of timber per year, which allowed for the replacement of five existing kilns that operated with older technology
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Sunshine Coast aged care facility specifies T2 timber framing

05 February 2019
Australian construction company, Living Choice has elected to use Hyne Timber’s termite resistant T2 Blue framing for its latest multi-residential aged care project on the Sunshine Coast. Living Choice project manager, Warren Danter said this latest project with a large, complex roof
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Dwelling approvals down 3.9% to November

05 February 2019
Australia’s softening housing market continued its weakness in November, with year-end approvals down 3.9% compared with a year earlier. Of immediate importance is that monthly approvals for November were 31.3% lower than in November 2017, totalling 16,059 approvals for the month. Sou
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New National Construction Code to increase demand for timber products 

05 February 2019
The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) released the preview version of the 2019 National Construction Code (NCC) that increases the range of buildings, up to an effective height of 25m, in which fire-protected timber construction systems can be used. The new Classes add schools, r
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Top 5: Market Points from IndustryEdge

31 January 2019
Every month, IndustryEdge publishes Wood Market Edge, Australia’s only forestry and wood products market and trade analysis, and supplies its customers with hundreds of unique data products, advisory and consulting services. Find out more at www.industryedge.com.au 130,526 m3 – Austra
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Private Native Forestry – An Open letter to Queensland Government

31 January 2019
The Queensland Hardwood Timber Industry is coming under increasing pressure from many directions. Demand for timber products is increasing at a rapid rate and Queensland has the potential to become a significant supplier and processor of world-class, sustainable and durable wood. Sour
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Softwood log export stability still key strategic issue

29 January 2019
Australia’s exports of softwood logs declined 5.0% over the year-ended November 2018, totalling 4.213 million m3. Year-end exports were just 0.1% lower than in October, indicating the trade is increasingly stable. Considered from a strategic perspective, the exports remain significant
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Olympic keynote speaker for FTMA conference

24 January 2019
The Frame & Truss Manufacturers Association of Australia (FTMA) has announced that they have locked in soldier-turned-sporting superstar, Curtis McGrath as the key note speaker for the 2019 FTMA Australia National Conference. FTMA Australia made the decision to include a key note
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Responsible wood features at Food, Fibre and Ag conference

24 January 2019
Forest & Wood Products Australia (FWPA), ForestLearning and Responsible Wood took part in a number of trade displays, bus tours and interactive workshops during a recent 5-day Food, Fibre and Agricultural Educators conference. Source: Timberbiz They took the forestry and wood mess
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