The Hinton pulp mill has opened the first Canadian plant built to convert a sticky tree chemical from waste into a range of new environmentally friendly commercial products. Source: Edmonton Journal The $30-million facility attached to the West Fraser mill recovers lignin from the pul

MiTek announced that it was named 2015 Vendor of the Year by Carter Lumber. Source: Business Week Carter Lumber is among the most admired companies in the lumber and building materials sector. The company ranks #13 on the ProSales 100 list of the largest lumber and building material r

Tasmanians can hear firsthand the latest outlooks for the state’s agricultural and fisheries industries, when the ABARES Regional Outlook conference comes to Hobart on 27 April. Source: Timberbiz ABARES Executive Director, Karen Schneider said registrations were open for the conferenc

Work has started on a NZ$10 million investment program at a Blenheim sawmill, which will create up to 50 jobs over the next five years. Sources: The Marlborough Express, Stuff Co Nz The sawmill, off Battys Rd, was taken over by Australian company Timberlink last September, after they

A lack of State Labor Government forestry management policies “which have been insidiously encroaching on local landholders” were under discussion in Gympie. Source: Gympie Times LNP Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Deb Frecklington, was in Gympie b

New Zealand’s Labour Party will ask the Auditor-General to investigate a Malaysian company’s historical purchase of a Gisborne forestry block. Source: Radio New Zealand Hikurangi Forest Farms purchased more than 33,000 hectares of land in 1996, and also bought two adjoining bloc

Exciting opportunities exist for primary producers and regional businesses to help power the new economy. Source: Timberbiz A forum providing information on bioenergy alternatives for electricity and heat production will be held on 26 May from 9.30am until 3pm in Mt Gambier at the Mai

A stoush in Tasmania’s north-east over plans to harvest native forest near mountain bike trails has intensified, with the local council threatening legal action against a community lobby group. Source: ABC News A Facebook group calling itself Blue Derby Wild is opposed to the cl