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Shake table test of 10 storey wooden building

Sumitomo announced that it will participate in the NHERI Tall Wood Project, which includes a shake table test of a full-scale 10-storey wood building expected to happen in June 2022 on the NHERI (Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure) outdoor shake table facility at Unive
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Tigercat simulators for staff training, testing and screening

As the Tigercat cut-to-length division continues to introduce new products and innovations, the need for more advanced training solutions has grown. In March 2021, Tigercat partnered with CM Labs Simulations to develop a series of simulators that will replicate the functionality and b
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Research confirms consumers moved to buy sustainable wood products

New research has confirmed that consumers want to make sustainability-focused purchasing decisions and trusted third party certification labels play an increasingly important role. Source: Timberbiz According to research conducted by Globe Scan for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
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Hyne owes its new drying kiln to the work of ARC Future Timber Hub

Hyne Timber has been celebrating the commencement in operations of its much-anticipated new Continuous Drying Kiln which was marked in an official ribbon cutting event held earlier this month. However, in the background the ARC Future Timber Hub in Queensland has contributed greatly t
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AKD Pinking Up to raise awareness – you can Pink Up too

For AKD’s NSW State Manager Matt Taylor the $100,000 target in this year’s Pinking Up campaign is much more than just about the money. It’s what the awareness can achieve in terms of education and early prevention and detection. Source: Timberbiz The Pinking Up campaign helps the McGr
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International Wood Manifesto – a roadmap for timber and wood use

An international Wood Manifesto setting the future roadmap for timber and wood use in construction and other products will be launched in the UK this week ahead of the COP26 talks. Source: Timberbiz The manifesto – Growing Our Low-Carbon Future: Time for Timber – is a coll
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Transition Policy for Chain of Custody published

Responsible Wood has published a Transition Policy for Chain of Custody certificate holders and certification bodies. The new standard supersedes AS 4707:2014 and is the Australian adoption of the PEFC International Chain of Custody Standard PEFC ST 2002:2020. Source: Timberbiz Althou
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Forestry Corp planting record hardwood and pine to rebuild forest plantations

Forestry Corporation of NSW has overseen 16 million pine and hardwood seedlings hand planted this year, a record effort to rebuild State plantation forests lost in the Black Summer bushfires and previously harvested. Source: Timberbiz Forestry Corporation’s Strategy and Risk Manager,
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Softwood estate relatively stable says ABARES with better news for the future

Australia’s commercial plantation estate stood at 1.8 million hectares in 2019-20 according to statistics released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences. Source: Timberbiz ABARES Acting Executive Director, Dr Jared Greenville, said the
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Unlocking 100 million trees with the Emissions Reduction Fund

Southern Tasmania, Gippsland, the Victorian side of the Green Triangle and Kangaroo Island can now participate in the Emissions Reduction Fund with the Federal Government yesterday removing the highly contested rainfall regulation, known as the ‘water rule’. Source: Timberbiz In July
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