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Canterbury University building uses innovative NZ timber tech

04 September 2018
Innovative, tall timber framing has risen on the University of Canterbury’s Ilam campus, as a new building, honouring alumna ‘Queen of the Cosmos’ Beatrice Tinsley, advances multi-storey timber-framed construction in New Zealand. Source: Voxy Construction of the Science precinct’s imp
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Competence Centre for Stora Enso biocomposites

04 September 2018
In order to meet increasing customer demand, Stora Enso will broaden its biocomposites raw material base at the Hylte Mill, Sweden to provide more choice in technical properties and selection of fibres. Source: Timberbiz The investment covers a new Biocomposites Competence Centre and
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Eco Crops offer investment in Estonian biomass

04 September 2018
Eco Crops International first European forestry investment is open to private and institutional investors. The investment itself is based just outside the Estonian capital of Tallinn and is run in conjunction with the EU Renewable Energy Directive which is a recent law change within t
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PNG gets QUT help for wood in schools

04 September 2018
Affordable, simply made school furniture for Papua New Guinea classrooms designed and prototyped by QUT Industrial Design students is headed to PNG for production from wood off-cuts. Source: Timberbiz QUT Industrial Design senior lecturer Dr Marianella Chamorro-Koc said 11 teams of th
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Redwood forest to be planted in New Zealand

04 September 2018
A large-scale land purchase by an American forestry company west of Taupō will see 1148ha of farmland converted into a redwood forest. Source: Stuff NZ The NZ$7 million purchase north of Taumarunui, near Matiere, by The New Zealand Redwood Company was approved by the Overseas Investme
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Jarrah salvage begins in WA state forest

04 September 2018
The Forest Products Commission WA (FPC) has begun salvage operations in coupes damaged by the 2016 Yarloop fire. Source: Timberbiz Forester Jane Charles said that the fire burnt through over 50,000 hectares of state forest, including several recently harvested native forest coupes. “W
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Road upgrades for Southern NSW welcomed

04 September 2018
The push by the Softwood Working Group (SWG), as well as the Snowy Valleys, Greater Hume and Cootamundra-Gundagai Councils, for road upgrades in the key forestry hub that is the South-West Slopes region will ensure appropriate future transport links for forest industries. Source: Timb
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Forestry finally looking up in Tasmania report reveals

04 September 2018
The Tasmanian forest industry is on an even keel after several challenging years, with a new report showing employment and spending have stabilised after a period of decline, and are growing in some parts of the industry. Source: Timberbiz According to the report ‘Socio-economic impac
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Record prices for Australian hardwood chip exports

04 September 2018
June 2018 will be remembered, in the Australian wood resources trade at least, as the month that the average price reached a new record and topped AUDFob200/bdmt for the first time since it crept there for one month only, in March 2010. Source: IndustryEdge for Timberbiz The new recor
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Timberlink $100m investment in regional manufacturing Jobs

04 September 2018
Timberlink has approved a $100 million upgrade program to its Australian sawmills. This generational investment will see the total processing capacity of the Australasian sawmilling company increase by more than 15%. Source: Timberbiz The investment will secure more than 1350 direct a
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