What better way to showcase the many qualities of engineered timber, including fire compliance in contemporary building design than a new Fire Station? Source: Timberbiz This was the view of Hyne Timber when a potential opportunity arose to give the Maryborough Fire and Emergency Serv

Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers has opened an office in Kingscote and appointed two of its directors to executive positions as it works towards approval for its Smith Bay wharf and mobilisation of the forestry industry. Source: Timberbiz The office, at 70 Dauncey Street, provides a

The Tasmanian Government’s horror week in the upper house has continued, with MLCs swinging the axe on its contentious forestry legislation. Source: ABC News The bill would have allowed logging in 356,000 hectares of forests two years earlier than a moratorium would have allowed

A dead koala has been found between fallen trees in a logged forest that the Andrews government could have protected – had it not ignored advice from its own scientific committee. Source: The Age The Sunday Age has obtained graphic images of the lifeless animal slumped over branches i

An Australian engineer is hoping to use drones to plant 1 billion trees every year to fight an unfolding global catastrophe. Source: ABC News Deforestation and forest degradation make up 17% of the world’s carbon emissions — more than the entire world’s transportation sect

Troubled Quintis is heavily discounting its stocks of sandalwood oil and timber as the company tries to stave off collapse. Source: Australian Financial Review The Perth-based sandalwood grower will fail unless it can successfully negotiate a recapitalisation before it runs out of cas

The absence of any specific funding initiatives for the forest products industry in this year’s South Australian Budget was a missed opportunity for the Government, according to the Australian Forest Products Association State Manager, Mr John Stokes. Source: Timberbiz Mr Stokes said

The Hon Guy Barnett, Minister for Resources, Minister for Building and Construction will be the keynote speaker at a private forestry forum for landowners, foresters, processors and land-use managers in Tasmania. Source: Timberbiz The event will be held on Tuesday 11 July 2017 at the