QMI Solutions will be running a breakfast clinic on how to improve energy and water efficiency for manufacturers in the lead-up to the carbon tax. The clinic will be held at the Burke & Wills Hotel in Toowoomba on Wednesday 13 June 2012 from 7am to 9.30am. Source: Timberbiz

Interest in converting mallee eucalypts into fuel for aircraft has given added impetus to the commercial biofuel industry. Source: The Weekly Times Now

Ben Gunneberg, Secretary General, PEFC International, will be presenting at six events across Australia this month. Source: Timberbiz

Tasco, owners of a major timber mill development at Bombala in south east New South Wales, said construction was on track to begin processing logs in November 2012. Sources: ABC News, ABC South East NSW

Three million pine seedlings will be planted in local forests at Bathurst, Orange, Oberon and Lithgow from this week according to the NSW Minister for Primary Industries, Katrina Hodgkinson. Source: Timberbiz

Mexico received US$392 million, of which US$350 million is a loan from the World Bank and US$42 million from the Forest Investment Program (FIP) for developing woodlands. Source: Fox News Latino

Timber processing and sustainable management of forest resources of the Wallis and Futuna island state is expected to improve following an assistance program facilitated by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Source: The Fiji Times

The future of a road that links the Tasman Peninsula and the East Coast is uncertain now timber company Gunns has divested itself of responsibility for the former logging road. Source: The Mercury