Kangaroo Islandʼs 12 plantation forest growers are working together to maximise the benefits of the forestry industry for the community of Kangaroo Island. At a recent meeting in Parndana, most of the Islandʼs Independent Timber Growers (blue gum and pine) met with Kangaroo Island Pla

The Australian Timber Trainers Association conference is to be held from 29-30 July on the Gold Coast with a number of well known industry figures speaking. It will be held at the Surfers Paradise Novotel. Source: Timberbiz Highlights of the conference agenda are presentations on: Ski

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NZ Future Forest Products (NZFFP) believes that New Zealand is perfectly positioned to supply the rapidly urbanising Asia-Pacific region with the construction materials needed to house the world’s population in a low carbon future and so it will invest NZ$900 million to prove it. Sour

The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed Federal Labor’s new shadow ministry, announced by Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese earlier this week. The announcement included the appointment of Joel Fitzgibbon to the agriculture portfolio and Mark Butler remaining wi

A new forestry advertising campaign with the logo, ‘Wood: The Ultimate Renewable’, is set to hit the screens, not just as a re-invigorated branding, but as a strategic reframing and an organising idea for the whole forestry sector. The campaign, launched in Melbourne on Tuesday night,

A ground-breaking initiative to plant 100 million trees around the world has been launched from the United States to benefit the planet’s health and sustainability. The Time for Trees campaign has been launched by The Arbor Day Foundation, which is the largest US-based non-profit orga

Logset has launched a new smaller hybrid harvester: the Logset 8H GTE Hybrid. It is the company´s second hybrid harvester model after the world´s biggest wheel-based harvester, the Logset 12H GTE Hybrid, was successfully launched in 2016. Source: Timberbiz “When we launched the first