Frame 2015, which was held in early June, set the scene for opportunities and ongoing challenges for the industry to move prefab timber construction to a new level of acceptance and participation in Australia’s growing building industry. Source: Timberbiz This year’s conference,

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) has announced the winners of this year’s summer 2015 Green Dream Internship program. Source: CNW Fifteen students are receiving a scholarship and an iPad mini to help them blog about their adventures as interns in Canada’s f

One of the world’s largest manufacturers of pulp and paper in Indonesia has announced it will immediately stop logging in all natural forests. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Loss of forest habitat through pulp and paper logging and palm oil plantations has pushed endangered s

Imagine a future where minerals extracted from the ground are no longer the dominant energy source instead it is wood. Source: Timberbiz Huge eucalypt forests could provide biofuel for Bentleys and jet fuel for Boeings, while carbon-fibre car bodies could be produced from genetically

Logging in East Gippsland is not commercially viable and cutting down native forests across the region is racking up losses of up to $5.5 million a year, internal government documents reveal. Source: The Age A leaked briefing by Victoria’s Department of Treasury and Finance to t

The revised Renewable Energy Target (RET) currently before Parliament would provide a market for otherwise unsaleable timber, according to a document from Victoria’s state-owned forestry business, VicForests, obtained by the ABC. Source: ABC News Environment Minister Greg Hunt i

More than six million seedlings are being dispatched from the Forestry Corporation’s Blowering Nursery near Tumut during a three-month operation. Source: PS News Strategy and Risk Manager at Forestry Corporation, Gavin Jeffries said the carefully measured radiata pine seedlings were b

A safety council has been set up to help make forests safer workplaces. Source: Radio New Zealand The council – formed earlier this year and launched at Parliament has been set up in response to a recommendation from a panel that reviewed forestry safety last year. Dame Alison P