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