The Tasmanian forest industry is on an even keel after several challenging years, with a new report showing employment and spending have stabilised after a period of decline, and are growing in some parts of the industry. Source: Timberbiz According to the report ‘Socio-economic impac

June 2018 will be remembered, in the Australian wood resources trade at least, as the month that the average price reached a new record and topped AUDFob200/bdmt for the first time since it crept there for one month only, in March 2010. Source: IndustryEdge for Timberbiz The new recor

Timberlink has approved a $100 million upgrade program to its Australian sawmills. This generational investment will see the total processing capacity of the Australasian sawmilling company increase by more than 15%. Source: Timberbiz The investment will secure more than 1350 direct a

The Confederation of Timber Industries (CTI) in the UK has responded to the Government’s proposal on banning the use of combustible materials in cladding systems on high-rise residential buildings. Source: Timberbiz The CTI’s official response focuses on the “ambigui

At 25 King Street, in Bowen Hills Brisbane there is a 10 storey high office building currently being built with CLT supplied by Stora Enso engineered and processed by Lendlease. Source: Timberbiz In total, the building is using over 6000 cubic meters of CLT and glulam. On an average s

McDonald’s recently opened its redesigned flagship store in Chicago and it’s dominated by wood and cross-laminated timber (CLT). Source: Woodworking Network The new building, which opened 9 August on the site of the former Rock N Roll McDonald’s in Chicago’s Ri

Lithgow City Council is supporting a push from Local Government NSW to abolish the rate exemption from Forestry land. Source: Lithgow Mercury Lithgow council has estimated that the value of foregone rates on Forestry lands in the Lithgow LGA is $414,000 per annum. “A rate exemption cu

More than 100 years of history is effectively over according to a Creswick forestry graduate who fears the loss of the University of Melbourne’s rural campus. Source: The Courier The university has released plans to relocate much of the forestry school to its Parkville campus due a de