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WoodWorks Wood Design Awards

Wood building design is dynamic and evolving across the US as more developers and design teams seek carbon-friendly structural solutions that are also beautiful and cost effective. WoodWorks will recognize the best of these projects at its 14th annual Wood Design Awards. Source: Timbe
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DoubleHelix offers Chain of Custody certification in Asia Pacific

Environmentally conscious companies have a new choice when it comes to certification of forest products. Singapore-based Double Helix Tracking Technologies (DoubleHelix) now offers PEFC Chain of Custody (CoC) certification to companies there, and also across the Asia-Pacific region. S
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Weining appoints new CFO

Weinig AG, a leading technology provider for the solid wood and panel processing industry and small businesses, has a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Source:  Timberbiz At its recent meeting, the Supervisory Board appointed 47-year-old Axel Steiger as successor to Chief Financial O
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Software giant Atlassian to build world’s tallest timber tower in Sydney

Global software giant Atlassian plans to build the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower for its new headquarters at the southern end of Sydney’s CBD. Source: Timberbiz The 40-storey building next to Central Station will become the centrepiece of the state government-planned
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Vistek to provide free webinars on mass timber uses

Vistek Structural Engineers are providing pro-bono webinars on mass timber aimed at design and construction professionals who are keen to learn more about this new form of construction. Source: Timberbiz The Melbourne-based firm has been a pioneer in the mass timber space in Australia
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An extra 4000 tonnes of wood waste recycled

An extra 4000 tonnes of offcuts and scraps of untreated wood per year will soon be able to be recycled into useful products such as horticultural and garden mulch, playground safety surfacing and animal bedding as a result of a NZ$660,000 investment from the Waste Minimisation Fund ac
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ABARES glossary of forestry terms

A guide to the interpretation and uses of forest and forestry terms at the national level has been released by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences. Source: Timberbiz The forests and forestry glossary is a stand-alone publication developed from the
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Gippsland gains additional support for recovery

Gippsland’s timber industry will benefit from additional support as it recovers from the 2019-20 bushfires, according to the Member for Gippsland Darren Chester. Mr Chester said the industry had been one of the hardest hit over summer and the measures would provide critical support to
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CFMEU gauges commitment of candidates to forestry in Eden-Monaro

The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has penned a survey for Eden-Monaro by-election candidates, to gauge their level of commitment to supporting the forest industries if elected next month. Source: Tumut and Adelong Times The CFMEU Manufacturing Divis
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VicForests Timber Release Plan feedback needed

VicForests is seeking feedback on the proposed changes to its Timber Release Plan. The TRP change proposes an additional 59 new coupes in the Benalla-Mansfield, North-East and Tambo Forest Management Areas. Source: Timberbiz VicForests CEO Monique Dawson says that as part of this chan
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