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New products to revolutionise engineered wood

Materialize.X launched two new products that it thinks will revolutionize the US$300 billion-a-year engineered wood market. Source: Tech Crunch Part 1: a non-toxic adhesive A lot of engineered wood is created using an adhesive called urea-formaldehyde, which has recently been labeled
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New Forests ethical investors

Every dry season from June through to October, the illegal slash-and-burn techniques used in palm oil and pulp plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia envelope the region in toxic smog. Source: Euromoney The haze has been a life-threatening constant of the region for years. In 1997, Sin
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Macquare Uni innovation hub with innovative design

In a fitting testimony to its purpose, Macquarie University’s new innovation hub was mostly pre-fabricated offsite, and the entire onsite build and fitout completed in five months. Source: The Fifth Estate The hub was designed by Architectus and constructed primarily of timber, includ
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Rio Tinto reaches out to employ Nannup workers

Rio Tinto has reached out to the 21 workers from Nannup Timber Processing – who recently lost their jobs – in a bid to offer them fly-in-fly-out positions at one of their Pilbara sites. Source: The Collie Mail An information session for the workers was held by Rio Tinto at the N
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Canadian expert urges NZ to build more high rise wood

A visiting Canadian building expert is urging New Zealand to make better use of its natural timber to construct more high-rise buildings using wood. Source: Radio NZ Karla Fraser, a senior project manager at Urban One Builders in Vancouver, is in New Zealand for a conference in Rotoru
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Pango Forestry on forest management

Pango Forestry’s founder, Zane Cleaver says that forest management is an investment in the future. Source: Timberbiz, Scoop NZ Of late, there has been an increasing need for services related to Pango forestry management as more and more owners want to maximize wealth through a forest
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Great Forest National Park a great concern

Pressure is mounting on the Victorian Government to declare where it stands on a proposal to develop the Great Forest National Park, east of Melbourne. Source: The Weekly Times The proposal for 355,000 hectares of protected forests across the Eastern Victorian Central Highlands — incl
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Timber alight on container ship

Firefighters have gone into the hatch of a container ship the Kokopo Chief, moored at the Port of Tauranga in New Zealand where a fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning. Source: Stuff NZ The Kokopo Chief, moored at the Port of Tauranga in New Zealand was loaded with timbe
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Gympie’s historic sawmill gets $49k for revival

Believed to be the last steam powered sawmill operating in Queensland, the Elgin Vale mill has sat dormant and unused for the past 30 years. Source: Gympie Times Now, the Gympie Woodworks Museum will be bringing the heritage building near Manumbar back to glory with the help of $49,00
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App to wage war on kauri dieback

There is a game-changing tool on the way in the war against kauri dieback, the disease which is having a devastating effect on New Zealand’s native forests. Sources: Timberbiz, Scoop NZ Thanks to the 2016 WWF-New Zealand Conservation Innovation Awards, sustainable land management grou
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