Australasia's home for timber news and information

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank slammed for dropping TP Bennett

15 January 2025
The Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has been slammed over its decision to withdraw its longstanding support for Tasmanian forestry contractor T P Bennett & Sons and drop them as a customer on “ESG (environmental, social, and governance) grounds”. Source: Timberbiz The Austra
Continue Reading →

Appita LR Benjamin medal to Kim McGrouther

13 December 2024
Kim McGrouther, Scion’s Research Group Leader for Chemistry and Physics, has been acknowledged by the pulp and paper industry with the LR Benjamin Medal from the Appita Association. Source: Timberbiz It is the association’s highest honour, recognising and celebrating Kim’s outstanding
Continue Reading →

The future of Australian Eucalyptus plantations seminar

13 December 2024
A one-day seminar on the future of Australian Eucalyptus Plantations will be held in Melbourne on 13 February 2025. Australia now has around 700,000 hectares of eucalyptus plantations: mostly E.globulus on the mainland and mostly E.nitens in Tasmania. Source: Timberbiz Almost all to d
Continue Reading →

Combilift ‘Company of the Year’ at the 2024 Business & Finance Awards

11 December 2024
Combilift has been awarded Company of the Year at the prestigious Business & Finance Awards 2024, in association with KPMG Ireland. This remarkable achievement marks Combilift’s 9th major award in the last three months. Source: Timberbiz The Company of the Year award, presen
Continue Reading →

Forest Carbon Summit in Canberra 2025

09 December 2024
The 2025 Forest Carbon Summit will be held at Canberra’s National Press Club in April next year from 10- 11 April 2025 at the National Press Club of Australia in the ACT. Source: Timberbiz This 2-day event is designed to equip forest carbon practitioners, forest managers and a d
Continue Reading →

Federal Government roundtable shows the need for a coordinated approach

06 December 2024
Australia’s forest industries are the solution, this is the message from yesterday’s Federal Government Strategic Forest and Renewable Materials Partnership’s Forest Industry Roundtable in Hobart. Source: Timberbiz The roundtable highlighted the need for a coordinated Federal Governme
Continue Reading →

Industry educator workshop in Tasmania for wood products

04 December 2024
WoodSolutions hosted the 2024 Industry-Educator Workshop at the University of Tasmania’s Inveresk Campus bringing together more than 70 people engaged with the wood products sector from across Australia. Source: Timberbiz Participants spanned forestry, academia, timber production, and
Continue Reading →

Bowens awards Wesbeam for exceptional performance

04 December 2024
Wesbeam has won the Structural Building Products category and overall Supplier of the Year at the Bowens Supplier Awards in Melbourne. Source: Timberbiz These prestigious awards celebrate not just exceptional performance but also the dynamic partnership cultivated since 2017. Since th
Continue Reading →

Fiji workshop to help strengthen biosecurity for our region

02 December 2024
A workshop in Fiji this month will seek to strengthen biosecurity in the Pacific by developing a new strategy to manage risks associated with sea container movements. Source: Timberbiz The strategy aims to reduce the global spread of hitchhiker pests across the Pacific region via the
Continue Reading →

Vale Les Schultz 1925- 2024

02 December 2024
In the 1970s and 1980s, Les Schultz (“The Baron”) was the senior APM executive responsible as General Manager for Forests and Wood Products Australia wide, then Australia’s largest private forest grower. Source: Timberbiz Mr Schultz’ previous company roles included 1968-69 convenor of
Continue Reading →

Archives

Subscribe to DTN

Click this link to subscribe. 

Copyright © 2022 Ryan Media Pty Ltd (Division of Provincial Press Group). All Rights Reserved.