This Saturday 21 March, Habitech will host an open day at its Hawthorn Solar Extension project. Source: Timberbiz This will enable visitors to experience the design and space that the company’s unique modular system can create. While the project is still under construction, with the w

Tucked away in the rolling hills of northern Michigan in a once-dilapidated warehouse in the town of Copemish now brims with thousands of tiny saplings. But these trees are not as young as their sizes would suggest. Source: American Scientific Nonprofit Archangel Ancient Tree Archive,

In Papua New Guinea questions are being asked about what has happened to a multi-million dollar fund that is supposed to be used to help logging communities. Source: ABC Radio The PNG Eco-Forestry Forum believes the PNG government has stripped some 130 million kina ($AUD60 million dol

Ta Ann Plywood (Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia) is building veneer plant in Bintulu, which will start up the operation in June this year. Source: Lesprom It will use 3000 cubic metres of acacia logs as raw material to produce 1500 cubic metres of veneer. The veneer plant will be built near t

  As the industry increasingly focuses on ways to move construction into the factory, pre-finishing timber cladding before it is installed on site could be the next big step for the material. Source: Architecture & Design Timber finishes for exterior cladding applications are

Enjoy one of the country’s greatest collections of native and exotic trees on a guided walk through the William Hall Arboretum in Thames New Zealand. Sources: Scoop Media, Timberbiz The Arboretum is the oldest in New Zealand and consists of trees from New Zealand and elsewhere s

Part of Northland’s Aupouri forest in New Zealand has been returned to local iwi by the Crown after leasing the land for almost half a century. Source: Radio New Zealand The Crown leased the land for 99 years in 1966 but that was later negotiated down to the end of the first for

A forestry foreman fined over the death of a worker has had his penalty slashed by NZ$20,000. Source: Radio New Zealand Robert Ruri-Epapara died after being hit by a tree felled in a forest near Rotorua in March 2013. Major Nelson, who felled the tree, previously pleaded guilty to fai