$900m investment by sawmillers and wood manufacturers
02 November 2017
Australian saw millers and wood manufacturers have invested an estimated $900 million over the last five years in efficiency and productivity initiatives, on the back of strong demand for timber fuelled by the booming housing market. Source: Timberbiz The investment comes despite unce
Continue Reading →Please explain for VicForests
02 November 2017
A Victorian forest industry task force created two years ago to advise the government hasn’t come up with anything, a parliamentary committee says. Source: The Australian The committee looking at the government-owned VicForests wants a ‘please explain’ about why the
Continue Reading →Production figures for pulp and paper
02 November 2017
Australia’s production of paper and paperboard rose more than 72,000 tonnes in 2.0% in the year-ended June 2017, latest analysis in the annual Pulp & Paper Strategic Review identifies. Source: Industry Edge Three of the four major production grades experienced growth across
Continue Reading →VicForests suspends logging in Kuark following legal action
02 November 2017
Legal action has forced state logging agency VicForests to suspend logging in the Kuark forest in far east Gippsland for at least a month. Source: ABC News The environment group Flora and Fauna Research Collective sought an injunction in the Supreme Court to prevent logging in the Pri
Continue Reading →Training leaders for a forest future
02 November 2017
Mid-level managers will have a new opportunity to develop their leadership skills next year when FWPA launches a new regional leadership training pilot program designed to help create future industry leaders in collaboration with the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation. Source: Tim
Continue Reading →Health assessment – forestry sector obese
25 October 2017
One year ago, Alfonso del Rio was 110 kilograms and on the path to diabetes. He couldn’t climb a flight of stairs without leaning on the handrail, exhausted and gasping for breath. Confronted with worrying health assessment results, he was spurred into action. Source: The Age Th
Continue Reading →High Court opens Pandora’s Box of protests
25 October 2017
Tasmania’s forestry industry fears a “bizarre” High Court decision has opened a “Pandora’s box of militant protests” and is urging the state government to draft new laws urgently. Source: The Australian Forest Industries Association of Tasmania chairman and major sawmiller Glenn Britt
Continue Reading →KPMG Pine Log Price Index
25 October 2017
The Australian Pine Log Price Index (“the Index”) is compiled by KPMG using data provided by Australian softwood growers. The Index documents changes in pine log prices achieved by large-scale commercial plantation owners selling common grades of plantation softwood logs to domestic p
Continue Reading →Multiple-use forests more benefit than a new national park
25 October 2017
Euan Ferguson, Victorian Chair of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA), says there is no benefit in creating a ‘Great Forest National Park’ in Victoria’s Central Highlands forests. Source: Timberbiz “Most of the region’s forests are already contained in conservation and water
Continue Reading →City greens want country forest
25 October 2017
State-owned logging company VicForests relied on a $4.8 million payment from the Andrews government to turn a profit this year, for work it is doing to create homes for the critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum. Source: The Age The payment, revealed in VicForests’ annu
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