Red Stag Group, which runs the largest sawmill in the Southern Hemisphere, plans to invest more than NZ$20 million developing a largescale cross-laminated timber plant at its wood processing site in Rotorua. Sources: NZ Advisor, Stuff NZ The plant is expected to be operational by mid-

When Jake Davis has to decide what to do after high school, he’ll have a good feel for the forestry industry. Source: Timmins Today The Grade 11 student was one of more than 30 students from Englehart, Iroquois Falls and Matachewan First Nation in Canada to take part in the Forestry C

In an effort to minimize injury and let carpenters focus on design and other bigger-picture tasks, a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has created AutoSaw, a system that lets nonexperts customize different items that can then be constructe

Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers has access to the results of offshore geotechnical sampling at Smith Bay, the site of the proposed KI Seaport. Sources: Timberbiz, Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers Fourteen test sites were sampled in the area of the proposed berth face and berthing

Tasman residents want stronger controls on forestry after logging waste and debris from collapsed pine forests swept around homes in Marahau and the Motueka Valley near Nelson when ex-tropical cyclone Gita hit two weeks ago. Source: Stuff NZ A petition signed by more than 3500 people

New Zealand exported a record volume of logs to China last year as Asia’s largest economy clamped down on harvesting its own forests, and the future points to constant or better demand in coming months, according to AgriHQ’s latest forestry market report. Source: Share Cha

Leading remote sensing scientists from Australia and New Zealand have been testing state-of-the-art sensor equipment mounted on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) prototypes and a helicopter in the Carabost State Forest, near Tumut. Source: NSW Department of Primary Industries The trans-Ta

The contrast could hardly be greater. In 2014, as Will Hodgman returned the Liberal party to power in Tasmania after 16 years in the political wilderness, central to his pitch was a bold promise: he would tear up a forestry peace deal and immediately convene meetings to rebuild the in