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Latest timber industry news, updated on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

TABMA special dates

The Annual General Meeting of the Timber & Building Materials Association (Aust) Ltd (TABMA) will be held in Sydney on Thursday, 3 November. Source: Timberbiz Notice of the meeting will be sent to all members on 10 October and members are especially invited to attend. Queensland I
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Private native forests critical to future timber supply

                    Private native forests of southern Queensland are extensive and critical to the future supply of timber to the processing sector. Source: Timberbiz However, the majority of the private resource is unmanaged regrowth
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Softwood rises with weaker dollar

Softwood lumber prices have trended upward in the first six months 2016 because of higher demand and a weaker dollar. Sources: Timberbiz, Business Wire Demand for softwood lumber has gone up in many markets around the world in 2016, resulting in a substantial increase in global lumber
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Canada and US continue a softwood war

Canada and the United States are on the brink of yet another softwood lumber war, fuelled by a drastic jump in BC lumber exports to the US and growing anti-trade sentiment. Source: The Squamish Chief American sawmillers say they are ready to fire the first shot in what would be the fi
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Tulipwood brings a smile to London

Visitors to the London Design Festival can experience an unusual curved wooden building called The Smile. Source: Inhabitat Designed by Alison Brooks of Alison Brooks Architects, the sloping structure demonstrates the potential of CLT, which Brooks says is “stronger than concret
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NZ Super Fund not super but good forestry investment

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has made less than 2% on its investments in the year to June, reflecting the negative returns from global equities. Source: Radio New Zealand The fund, which is designed to help pay for national superannuation payments from 2032, grew 1.89% by just
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WA is leading in forestry and softwood

The WA Government is leading Australia in promoting forestry and the expansion of softwood plantations, according to the industry’s peak lobby group. Source: The West Australian Australian Forest Products Association chief executive Ross Hampton said the industry was delighted with pl
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Biomass discussion in Tasmania

Anyone who works or walks in Tasmanian bush knows there are two certainties: it will grow and some will burn in bushfires said Ross Hampton chief executive of the Australian Forest Products Association in an article for The Mercury. Source: The Mercury Biomass power uses this renewabl
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