Music to your ears through wood
15 March 2018
The Melbourne Recital Centre is an acclaimed music destination combining architectural innovation and acoustic perfection within its two performance spaces to showcase the best music, artists and ensembles from around the world. Source: Timberbiz and Responsible Wood The centre’s inte
Continue Reading →Indoor workers happier if enveloped in wood
15 March 2018
It may come as no surprise that research funded by a timber lobby group has found wood finishes in offices make employees happier and more productive. Source: Australian Financial Review The Forest & Wood Products Australia-funded survey of 1000 indoor workers found those exposed
Continue Reading →ForestWorks feedback wanted on draft project outlines
15 March 2018
ForestWorks is currently preparing two project outline documents called ‘Cases for Change’ for which they are seeking input. Source: Timberbiz Feedback is sought to guide the need for projects to develop skills and training products in the following areas: loading and unlo
Continue Reading →Red Stag to invest $20m for cross-lamination plant
15 March 2018
Red Stag Group, which runs the largest sawmill in the Southern Hemisphere, plans to invest more than NZ$20 million developing a largescale cross-laminated timber plant at its wood processing site in Rotorua. Sources: NZ Advisor, Stuff NZ The plant is expected to be operational by mid-
Continue Reading →Program connects students and forestry
08 March 2018
When Jake Davis has to decide what to do after high school, he’ll have a good feel for the forestry industry. Source: Timmins Today The Grade 11 student was one of more than 30 students from Englehart, Iroquois Falls and Matachewan First Nation in Canada to take part in the Forestry C
Continue Reading →Meet AutoSaw
08 March 2018
In an effort to minimize injury and let carpenters focus on design and other bigger-picture tasks, a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has created AutoSaw, a system that lets nonexperts customize different items that can then be constructe
Continue Reading →KIPT one step closer to seaport after geotechnical tests
08 March 2018
Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers has access to the results of offshore geotechnical sampling at Smith Bay, the site of the proposed KI Seaport. Sources: Timberbiz, Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers Fourteen test sites were sampled in the area of the proposed berth face and berthing
Continue Reading →Removing logging won’t prevent Gita damage
08 March 2018
Tasman residents want stronger controls on forestry after logging waste and debris from collapsed pine forests swept around homes in Marahau and the Motueka Valley near Nelson when ex-tropical cyclone Gita hit two weeks ago. Source: Stuff NZ A petition signed by more than 3500 people
Continue Reading →Record logs go to China, with South Korea second for NZ
08 March 2018
New Zealand exported a record volume of logs to China last year as Asia’s largest economy clamped down on harvesting its own forests, and the future points to constant or better demand in coming months, according to AgriHQ’s latest forestry market report. Source: Share Cha
Continue Reading →High flying scientists testing trees
08 March 2018
Leading remote sensing scientists from Australia and New Zealand have been testing state-of-the-art sensor equipment mounted on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) prototypes and a helicopter in the Carabost State Forest, near Tumut. Source: NSW Department of Primary Industries The trans-Ta
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