From speaker boxes to caskets, a timber manufacturer from Masterton in New Zealand is showing how flexibility counts in tough economic times. Taylormade Furniture started making solid pine caskets for funeral homes two years ago and has seen production grow steadily as orders come in.
The Environmental Defence Society’s 2012 (EDS) national conference was called Growing Green: Transformation of farming, fishing and forestry. It was held recently one of the focus areas was how could the country improve forestry and speed the development of low carbon, low environment
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARES) has release a new report on Australia’s coniferous and broadleaved plantation estate that indicates that it has increased by 7600 hectares in 2010-2011 to a total of 2,017,000 hectares compared with 2,009,000 hectares i
Biosecurity SA has alerted South Australian pest control exterminators to be on the look out for any signs of destructive European House Borers (EHB) when inspecting dwellings. The warning follows the introduction of new regulations restricting movement of pine timber products from W
Between November 2011 and March 2012, ABARES undertook a survey to up-to-date mill-specific data, including mill inputs, production and employment. This survey updates the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARES) 2007 national sawmill survey. Source: ABARES
According to BIS Shrapnel’s Sawn Timber in Australia, 2012 to 2026 report demand for sawn timber in Australia during the next decade will be driven by sharp growth in the building and construction sector. Source: IHB
Employees at the MicroPro Company in Ireland, working in collaboration with colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM in Berlin, have engineered a wooden-frame computer with reduced environmental impacts. Source: Product Design & Development
The US government has settled its legal case against the Gibson Guitar company over use of illegal timber from Madagascar in its instruments. Nashville-based Gibson, whose products are used by artists in every genre of music, will pay a US$300,000 ($284,000) fine and a US$50,000 ($47,
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