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

Online education and training can change the game for wood products industry

Associate Professor Greg Nolan, Director of the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood (CSAW), predicts that online education and training can change the game for the Australian and New Zealand timber and wood products industry.
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Space scientist to speak at timber conference

An internationally renowned, award winning space scientist will be speaking at the AUSTimber 2012 Forestworks’ conference in Mount Gambier, 29 March 2012.
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Tasmanian Premier taken to task over ‘lack of action’

Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings has been taken to task for her seeming lack of action over attacks on Ta Ann.
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Forestry saga drags on

By Senator Richard Colbeck When is enough enough? An Interim Conservation Agreement was signed last month between the State and Commonwealth Governments and didn't it produce a commotion!
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Forestry Tasmania would prefer to be developing new value added opportunities

By Bob Gordon Managing Director, Forestry Tasmania I note the Tasmanian Government's decision to release the first stage of the Strategic Review of Forestry Tasmania by consultants URS. Given that the timber industry in Tasmania is in the grip of a crisis, solutions can only be foun
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China is now the world’s largest importer of softwood lumber and logs

Importation of softwood logs and lumber to China has increased continuously over the past 15 years, and in 2011 the country was the largest importer of softwood lumber and logs in the world, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. Total import value equaled almost eight billion US d
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Victorian Native Hardwood Residual Timber – Request for Proposals

VicForests is seeking markets for approximately 837,000 tonnes per annum of residual log material, available from Victoria's commercial native forest estate.
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The Native Forest Biomass for Bio-energy Forum

Timber Communities Australia has issued an invitation to attend the ‘Native forest biomass for bio-energy forum; social, environmental and economic considerations’ on 7 March.
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