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Pacific rim wood chip market drops

16 August 2023
Softwood chips play a major role in global wood markets, but hardwood chips far surpass softwood in terms of volume. The majority of global wood chip trading consists of hardwood chips in regions across the Pacific Rim. Source: ResourceWise In 2022 alone, worldwide wood chip trade inc
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Chinese guidelines for forestry released

16 August 2023
Chinese authorities released guidelines to enhance the integration of law enforcement and judicature in forestry and grassland affairs. Source: China Daily Jointly issued by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the guideline
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Robots build a shell for research

16 August 2023
The livMatS Biomimetic Shell at the FIT Freiburg Centre for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies is a pioneering research building. It offers space for the development of cross-disciplinary research ideas. Source: Timberbiz The building brings together the different rese
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Waste materials railway sleeper to replace hardwood transoms

16 August 2023
A research team, led by University of Southern Queensland Chief Investigator Dr Wahid Ferdous, aims to replace timber transoms, a type of railway sleeper used in bridges, with a new material made from fibre composite and waste-based materials. Source: Timberbiz The Queensland State Go
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Beef + Lamb NZ report is good news for forests on farms

16 August 2023
New Zealand’s Forest Owners Association says an expansion of new forest planting in 2021, highlighted in a new report, is positive news for carbon capture ambitions. Beef + Lamb NZ has released a commissioned report by Orme & Associates. Source: Timberbiz Beef + Lamb complains tha
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Yarra Ranges students work with Powelltown Sawmills and VicForest

16 August 2023
Students from Ranges TEC have experienced hardwood timber production from start to finish thanks to a partnership between the Lilydale-based school, Powelltown Sawmills and VicForests. Source: Star Mail As part of their community awareness course requirements, the students visited a f
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Timber Design Centre morphs into Timber Unlimited

16 August 2023
The use of timber to reduce climate-changing emissions from the local construction industry became easier and more accessible with the launch of Timber Unlimited to builders, designers, architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and others involved in the building sector throughout New
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One million seedlings planted by 25 people in six weeks

16 August 2023
Forestry Corporation has almost completed a ground-breaking replanting program that has seen more than 11 million seedlings planted in the state’s pine forests this winter. Source: Timberbiz Almost three years on from the Black Summer bushfires and the recovery effort in softwood plan
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Proactive private forestry understanding the value of wood on farms

16 August 2023
Tasmania’s private foresters are at the forefront of combating climate change and alleviating Australia’s construction timber scarcity through proactive private native regrowth forest management. Source: Timberbiz Tasmania’s extensive private regrowth native forests have a
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Native forestry may be sacrificed at Labor conference

16 August 2023
Shadow Environment, Fisheries and Forestry Minister Jonno Duniam fears that the native forestry industry will be sacrificed on the altar of extreme left politics at this weekend’s Federal Labor Conference in Brisbane. Source: Timberbiz During the May 2022 election, then Opposition Lea
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