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R&D project funding opportunities Expressions of Interest

Forest and Wood Products Australia Limited (FWPA) invites the submission of research proposals, including multi-year partnerships, addressing identified industry research priorities. Source: Timberbiz
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AWISA set to begin

AWISA 2014, which is on from 6-9 August, is a must-see event for those in woodworking and associated industries and for the first time, it will be held in Brisbane. Source: Timberbiz
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R&D project funding opportunities Expressions of Interest

Forest and Wood Products Australia Limited (FWPA) invites the submission of research proposals, including multi-year partnerships, addressing identified industry research priorities. Source: Timberbiz
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Chinese appetite drives massive illegal logging in Mozambique

Insatiable Chinese demand for timber is driving a grossly unsustainable illegal logging and timber smuggling crisis, which threatens to undermine Mozambique’s forest resources. Source: The Economic Voice
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History of a timber baron

“When Money Grew on Trees” is a history of timber baron AB Hammond who grew up in New Brunswick in the US and as a teenager worked as a lumberjack in Maine. Source: Kitsap sun
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North American Forest Products conference

Registration has opened for the 29th Annual North American Forest Products Conference to be held October 8-10, 2014, in Boston at the Seaport Boston Hotel. Source: What They Think
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NZ tertiary alliance benefits land based industries

New strategic alliance between New Zealand’s Lincoln University and Open Polytechnic will benefit land-based industries. Source: Timberbiz, Scoop NZ
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Uncertainty remains for Gunn’s farmers

Tasmanian farmers owed millions of dollars after the collapse of timber company Gunns are yet to find out if they will recoup their money. Source: ABC
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Infrastructure delays harvesting in New Zealand

The devastating effects of storm damage in Northland New Zealand continues to have a significant and lasting effect on forest contracting businesses, as infrastructure repairs have been delayed in the far North. Sources: Timberbiz, Scoop NZ
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Sale of Southern Cross Forest Products confirmed

The receivers of Southern Cross Forest Products Ltd (SCFP) have confirmed the sale of the company’s Milburn sawmill and Millstream drymill assets in Otago to Pan Pac Forest Products Ltd (Pan Pac). Source: Timberbiz, Scoop NZ
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