For the second year running, 39 Hyne Timber employees have put down their razors and picked up their fundraising efforts for Movember 2015. Source: The Fraser Coast Chronicle Through various ‘morning teas’ and donations, the Hyne Timber Mo Bro Challenge team has raised clo

A group of New Zealand Eastland Port forestry customers say they agreed to drop their dispute over the port’s wharfage and storage prices so all parties could “move on together”, although they still feel the port’s charges are not fair or reasonable. Source: Gisborne Herald After asse

A plan to treat timber for transport with a potentially toxic substance looks set to roll out in February after reassurances of risk management from the developers of a proposed rail hub in Goulburn. Source: Sydney Morning Herald Goulburn councillors approved Chicago Freight Rail Serv

Resources Minister Paul Harriss has refused to stop Forestry Tasmania from clear felling a regrowth coupe at Lapoinya in the state’s north west. Source: ABC News The Forests of Lapoinya Action Group claimed logging the coupe would adversely affect endangered animals in the area.

An apparent attempt at stealing timber from Forestry Tasmania-managed land could have ended in disaster at Mount Arthur just east of Launceston. Source: Timberbiz A sizeable stringy bark gum tree with sawlog timber reckoned to be worth more than $400 was felled across a road which giv

A joint venture between Circa Group and Norske-Skog to build a commercial demonstration plant manufacturing bio-solvents at the Boyer paper mill site in Tasmania is welcome news for the forestry industry. Source: Timberbiz Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) Chief Executive

Australian Construction Insights (ACI) released the summer 2015 edition of the ACI Construction Monitor. Source: Timberbiz Construction Monitor provides comprehensive analysis and insights into conditions within the non-residential building and engineering construction sectors. “The g

Bedford has been awarded more than $500,000 to upgrade its Mount Gambier timber manufacturing facility as part of the National Stronger Regions Fund (NSRF) program. Source: Timberbiz The project includes installing a new timber moulder to increase manufacturing capacity to meet growin