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Latest timber industry news, updated on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Fox supports Gunns to sort Tasmanian troubles

Lindsay Fox of Fox Transport has weighed into the argument on Tasmania’s forestry future says the Tasmania could reach depression-era levels of unemployment if project such as the Gunns pulp mill don’t go ahead. Source: AAP, Nine MSN, Tasmanian Times, ABC News
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Ta Ann scales down for peace

Veneer processor Ta Ann Tasmania is considering overhauling its operations to help the forest peace talks. Source: ABC News
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NZ world-first, post-tensioned timber building

Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand has a world-first in its post-tensioned timber seismic frame building. Source: Timberbiz
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Job losses from Hancock

Australia's largest timber company has said that jobs losses will be the end result of an American company's stranglehold on timber supply. Source: ABC News
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Direct forestry investments: real assets for diversification and as an inflation hedge

Forestry and timber investing - the very concept seems either dull or extremely alien. However any investors - especially those looking for true diversification and stable returns - are making a real oversight by ignoring the value timber and forestry investments could bring to their
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CLT in the USA

Cross-laminated timber panel construction has begun to make inroads in North America. Source: Woodworking Network
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ForestrySA to host a weekend of forest activities

In November last year six South Australian artists took part in ForestrySA’s ‘Artists in Residence Program’ at ForestrySA’s Thomas Hill Study Centre at Cudlee Creek in the Adelaide Hills. Source: Timberbiz
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Wood Innovations for 2012

Wood Innovations 2012 is a new technology program being set-up with a wide cross section of Australian and New Zealand companies to address concerns regarding regaining a competitive advantage. “It’s a new initiative and it’s been a long time coming” says Brent Apthorp, Director of th
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