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New equipment at ASH guarantees future work

Australian Sustainable Hardwoods (ASH) at Heyfield, Victoria is putting the finishing touches on its latest expansion, which experts tip will provide a much bigger range of building products for architects and designers. Source: The Gippsland Times
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NZ sawmill company in receivership

Southern Cross Forest Products, a sawmill company in New Zealand with about 400 employees and about NZ$100 million in annual sales was placed in receivership. Sources: Stuff NZ, Fairfax NZ News, TVNZ
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NZ Super sale of Kaingaroa Timberlands

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has sold 2.5% of Kaingaroa Timberlands to six central North Island iwi, giving the underlying landowners access to some of the profits generated from the nation's biggest forestry business. Source: The National Business Review (NZ)
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Mirvac in $50 forest sale

A fund managed by Mirvac is readying to sell 20,000ha of forestry land to New Forests Group for more than $50 million. Source: The Australian
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Call for help after SA forestry fires

Owners of the Morgan sawmill in South Australia's mid-north are calling for State Government help to save the local forestry industry. Source: ABC Rural
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Support for Homeless in Mt Gambier

A ‘Support Homeless People’ bi-annual luncheon will be held at in Mount Gambier on 11 April to raise funds for local charity ac.care and their work with people experiencing homelessness. Source: Timberbiz
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Adelaide Uni to fingerprint trees in Indonesia

The University of Adelaide will step up the fight against illegal logging with a new two-year, DNA-fingerprinting project in Indonesia. Source: Newsmaker
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Zelam stopping the rot

In 1988 a pair of scientists working for what is now Dow AgroSciences saw an opportunity to quit the corporate world and inspired by a shipment of medium-density fibreboard (MDF) they developed an anti-mould product. Sources: Stuff NZ, Fairfax NZ News
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Exports may force mill closure

With restructuring expected in the timber industry in the Nelson region as log exports bypass local sawmills, Grant Russ is on the verge of deciding to close his Appleby sawmill because he can't get logs. Sources: Fairfax NZ News, Stuff NZ
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Gippsland pushes for a school in forestry education

Wellington Shire Council in Gippsland has asked its chief executive officer David Morcom to prepare a report into the feasibility of establishing a school of timber and forestry education precinct within the shire. Source: The Gippsland Times and Maffra Spectator
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