Dr Marie Yee was presented with the inaugural Richard Stanton Memorial Trophy for Excellence in Sustainable Forestry at an all-industry dinner in Melbourne last week. Source: Timberbiz Senator Anne Ruston presented Dr Yee, a senior conservation planner at Forestry Tasmania, with the c

During this year’s National Forest Products Week, we salute the thousands of hardworking Americans who keep our forests healthy and vibrant places for economic growth said US senator John Boozman. Source: The Hill In an article published in The Hill, Sen Boozman said that America’s fo

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