After announcing early this year that the Masters hardware stores would offer an online product the company has now gone live with its website. Source: Power Retail
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
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
The world's largest producer of Indian sandalwood will plant another 1500 hectares of timber this year, but for the first time the bulk of its plantings won't be in Western Australia. Source: ABC Rural