At this year’s AUSTimber, ForestWorks will host a session about the opportunities for industry-led initiatives to manage safety issues facing the industry. Source: Timberbiz Speakers at this event are: Diana Lloyd from ForestWorks who will provide an update of the FOLS Skills Verifica

Hear about advanced solutions for structural timber production including glulam and CLT and other technology from Europe for structural timber production tonight in Melbourne. Source: Timberbiz The PrefabAUS Seminar Space will be the venue on 25 February for the event which will be at

Swiss researchers have come up with AI that lets small quadcopters automatically identify and follow man-made trails in forests. Source: Gizmodo They say it’s to help in search-and-rescue, but it also sounds like nanny state drones that could one day hunt me down in the woods as I dod

The grocery store parmesan cheese you shake over pasta dishes may contain non-dairy filler ingredients like wood pulp, according to a report from Bloomberg. Source: The Guardian UK In 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration investigated the Pennsylvania cheese factory Castle Cheese

Inverness College UHI cast a spotlight on the booming Scottish forestry industry recently as it celebrated the formal unveiling of its new Scottish School of Forestry facility at Balloch. Source: Press and Journal UK The opening of the new facility, which receives over 150 students an

The West Australian timber industry is counting the cost of the recent South West bushfires, with more than 3000 hectares of pine plantations lost. Source: 9News Salvage operations have begun to recover as much saleable timber as possible, while the industry predicts it will cost abou

An international conference at Methven in Canterbury in March will add fuel to straw-earth buildings being the way of the future for New Zealand homes and make targeted comment about a lack of vision in our forestry sector. Source: Forestryexpo Many New Zealand houses are made of natu

The largest plantation owner in South Australia’s south-east, One Forty One Plantations, says it wants to harvest more pine trees, but can not due to a lack of manpower. Source: ABC Rural The company’s desire to increase its pine harvest is in stark contrast to recent issu