“Challenges facing the NZ timber industry are real and significant but the industry is generally in a good demand cycle and sentiment is positive,” New Zealand Timber Industry Federation (NZTIF) president, John McVicar said. “Domestic demand for timber is very strong at the moment. “H

The western Queensland town of Tambo has turned to timber in an effort to diversify its economy. Source: ABC News The council is fixing up the town’s abandoned sawmill to attract a new lessee and a new industry to town. With the help of the federal and state governments a total

You have until the end of the month to enter the 2017 NZ Wood-Resene Timber Design Awards. Source: Timberbiz Stage One entries close on Friday, 28 October, which is less than three weeks away. Entries are already coming in, but if we don’t have yours it can’t be considered, said NZ Wo

The capabilities of engineered-timber construction was a major focus for this year’s prefabAus conference. Source: Architecture & Design As the organisation’s members gathered for the third national conference in Sydney, a spate of prefab timber development is was underway all ove

Timber-based prefabricated apartments being built in Adelaide could give momentum to the South Australian Government’s push for more inner city development, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) says. Source: ABC News South Australia’s first wooden apartments are being bu

Tasmania may rekindle its bitter forest wars by ending a moratorium on logging in 400,000ha of native forests protected under a 2012 peace deal. Sources: The Australian, ABC News The Hodgman Liberal state government flagged that the moratorium, in place until April 2020, could be prem

The New Zealand government is looking at measures to encourage more forestry planting as it examines whether locally grown forests will be cheaper than buying foreign carbon credits to meet its climate change targets. Source: NBR Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett told the Climate

VicForests CEO Robert Green is leaving VicForests to pursue a career opportunity in New Zealand. Source: Timberbiz Mr Green will be taking on a position as CEO of Kaingaroa Timberlands in New Zealand, one of the world’s oldest and largest softwood plantations. He will remain with VicF