Scholarships are still open for the Housing Industry Association (HIA) Build Your Future program, which helps aspiring young builders reach their full potential. Source: Timberbiz
Bioenergy Australia, an information and networking alliance of 83 government and private sector organisations with an interest in the development of sustainable energy and products from biomass, is holding its 13th annual conference on November 26-28 at the Sebel Albert Park, Melbourn
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Australia and FSC International’s Sixth Annual Excellence Awards function will be held in Melbourne on 26 November. Source: Timberbiz
A sell-off of more than 250,000 acres of state-owned forestry assets in South Australia for $670 million will not impact long-term supplies of timber and will leave the state’s forestry assets in safe hands, according to the SA government. Source: The Australian, Design Build Source,
Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) members from South Australia's south-east have joined a union led campaign by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) to save SA’s embattled timber industry. Source: 4-Traders
The US surpassed Canada as the largest wood pellet exporter in the world in the first half of 2012, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review. The expansion of wood pellet capacity in the US South has enabled the growth. Source: Timberbiz
There are two forestry entrepreneurs whose software is revolutionising the harvesting of timber. A UK company is leading a quiet revolution to change the global forestry industry. Source: Independent (UK)
Australia’s Lend Lease faces being banned from billions of dollars of Victorian government work after signing a sweetheart deal with a powerful construction union according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Source: Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
Administrators of failed forestry company Gunns are advertising for a business to take on the plantations as a 'responsible entity'. Ads were placed in the financial press for a company to take over the routine administration of Gunns' investments. Source: ABC Rural