The US Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has provided new evidence to the business practices by the Austrian company “Holzindustrie Schweighofer” (Schweighofer) in Romania. Sources: Globe News Wire, Market Watch The report documents how Schweighofer processes large

A court case involving alleged knock-off furniture highlights a unique aspect of New Zealand copyright law, according to intellectual property specialists James & Wells. Source: Scoop NZ James & Wells’ client Plantation Grown Timbers (PGT) designs and produces collections of f

There are signs Tasmania’s forestry industry is picking up, with hopes of increased exports of veneer and sawlogs from the state’s north. Source: ABC News Forestry company Neville-Smith Smartfibre has teamed up with SFM Forest Products and there are plans to export timber

Initially billed as low-risk investments, failed timber and agribusiness schemes around the country have now cost thousands of Australian investors their life savings. Source: ABC News “Pests and diseases, bushfires — these things were anything but safe and the fact that you did

Woolworths’ Masters home improvement chain is considered unsaleable after losing more than $600 million over the last few years, but the same can not be said for Woolworths’ Home Timber and Hardware chain, aka Danks. Source: The Australian Financial Review Hundreds of inde

Former forestry contractors are warning that the Tasmanian Government’s plan for a new hardship fund will not go far enough. Source: ABC News Tasmania’s Resources Minister Paul Harriss has confirmed that Cabinet has ticked off on a $1 million compensation fund for workers

Becky McCann is a trainer with the not-for-profit Australian Agroforestry Foundation that is providing Tasmania’s first Master Tree Growers. Source: ABC Rural The Australian Master Tree Grower program focused on growing and managing trees for conservation and profit. Ms McCann s

New South Wales’ biggest producer of pine trees says there is no plan as yet to increase softwood plantings. Source: ABC News The Tumut Shire Council says there is an urgent need to put more trees in the ground to ensure supply for massive investments in local mills, including V