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Carter Holt Harvey spends in SA

30 April 2015
Carter Holt Harvey in south east South Australia is spending more than $13.5 million on a major upgrade of its equipment. Source: ABC News The company said it was investing in new machinery at its Jubilee Highway green mill, which would allow it to better compete with overseas markets
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Parquetry mill takes shape

30 April 2015
Bespoke patterns are taking shape at the South Grafton Parquetry Mill in the hope they will floor city developers and architects. Source: The Clarence Valley Daily Examiner The Australian Timber Company’s business partner Tony Di Milia said a number of new patterns and reinventi
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Timber flooring conditions are challenging

30 April 2015
Despite a comeback in new home construction, conditions within the flooring industry in Australia remain extremely challenging according to leaders within the industry. Source: Sourceable Australian Timber Flooring Industry Association CEO Randy Flierman said that notwithstanding a re
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WWF targets Australia for deforestation

30 April 2015
Eastern Australia has been listed in a new WWF report as a global front for deforestation. Source: The Daily Telegraph WWF-International’s Living Forests Report: Saving Forests at Risk lists eastern Australia as one of 11 places around the world that will account for 80% of global for
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Gympie forester a Fellow of the Institute of Foresters

23 April 2015
  Recently retired Gympie forester Ernie Rider has been inducted as a Fellow of the Institute of Foresters of Australia. Source: The Gympie Times Mr Rider started his 50-year career by taking an honours degree in forestry from Queensland University and then at the Australian Nati
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No word still on Forestry Tas future

23 April 2015
The future of Forestry Tasmania remains under a cloud as the State Government commits to detail its plans for the company before the May budget. Source: The ABC Officials from Treasury, State Growth and the Premier’s Department have reviewed the company. Three weeks ago they handed th
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May be Bell Bay mill

23 April 2015
Timberland investment manager New Forests, which controls the plantation feedstock for any potential pulp mill, said that it would remain focused on export markets despite the chance a mill at Bell Bay pulp could be resurrected. Sources: News.com.au, The Mercury Receiver for Gunns Ltd
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Leadbeater to close forestry in central highlands

23 April 2015
Logging should end in Victorian central highlands forests to save the Leadbeater’s possum according to the federal government’s key scientific advisers on threatened species. Sources: The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC News The call came as the federal Environment Minister Gre
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Commercial building case studies in timber

23 April 2015
Forests & Wood Products Australia (FWPA) has a report and webinar available on the cost comparisons of commercial building construction in wood verses more traditional products. Source: Timberbiz To demonstrate the opportunities the research project developed a set of realistic co
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Colbeck promotes Aust forests to Japan and China

23 April 2015
Senator Colbeck is highlighting the benefits of the Australian forest industry during trading trip to Japan and China this week. Source: Timberbiz Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator Richard Colbeck, and Australian forest industry representatives are visit
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