Following last week’s State Government announcement of the long-awaited Timber Release Plan (TRP), the Victorian Association of Forest Industries (VAFI) is calling on the Agriculture Minister, the Hon Jaclyn Symes MP, to be clear on the long-term future of the Victorian native forest

The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed Federal Labor’s policy package, which agrees to several AFPA policy priorities to grow Australia’s renewable forest industries. Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) CEO Ross Hampton said there were three key commi

Södra has decided to invest in an additional CLT facility at Värö and aims to become a leader in the Nordic region. The new facility will be established at a combined plant in Värö, where Södra’s first CLT facility has already been co-located with Södra’s pulp mills and sawmills. Sour

Metsä Fibre has finalized its Kemi pulp mill related prefeasibility study, launched in May 2018. The study included two alternatives: Building a totally new bioproduct mill that would be clearly bigger in size than the current Kemi pulp mill or alternatively extending the life cycle o

Vietnam’s forestry industry showed a strong increase in export value in the first four months of the year, according to the Vietnam Forestry Administration. Forestry exports were estimated to have hit US$3.3 billion in the period, a year-on-year increase of 17.8%, including US$875 mil

The $60 million expansion of the Apprentice Wage Subsidy for rural and regional Australia announced by the Prime Minister on 26 April is strongly supported by Master Builders Australia. Source: Timberbiz “The doubling in the number of participants from around 1600 to around 3200 is go

The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA), is partnering with augmented reality App ‘Viewa’ as part of the Growing Your Future Federal Election Campaign after AFPA launched Growing Your Future, a campaign targeted at planting more timber production trees in the right places an

The New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries has published its report Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries (March 2019). Within the report, it states that forestry revenue is forecast to reach NZ$6.8 billion for the year ending June 2019, an increase of 7.0% from 2018, base