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NZIF awards for 2022

14 September 2022
This week at an awards dinner held in Auckland the New Zealand Institute of Forestry (NZIF) announced the winners of its three most prestigious awards. The 2022 recipients are acknowledged for their diverse range of skills and experience; from hard graft and commitment at grass roots
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Back to the future with a wooden wheeled bicycle

12 September 2022
How many kinds of craziness exist in the world. One YouTuber has decided to go backwards in time and make a bicycle with wooden wheels. Source: Timberbiz The wheels were cut out of 18mm ply with two of these circles glued together to form each wheel. He built the bicycle and then test
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De Jong Packaging Group acquired by Stora Enso

12 September 2022
De Jong Packaging Group, the largest independent corrugated manufacturer in the Benelux, announced that Stora Enso has acquired the company. Together De Jong Packaging Group and Stora Enso aim to accelerate revenue growth and build market share in renewable packaging in Europe. Source
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Forest education centre South Korea is the tallest timber building

12 September 2022
A ground-breaking ceremony has been held in Daejeon, South Korea to celebrate the construction of the Forest Welfare Comprehensive Education Centre, South Korea’s tallest mass timber building. Source: Timberbiz The building, which will be completed in 2024, will surpass the current ho
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Launceston building is first zero carbon footprint with mass timber

12 September 2022
Launceston’s $30 million, 28-metre-high timber building is set to become the most sustainable and carbon-positive office in Tasmania. Encompassing 500m2 of Cusp CLT, it also aims to be the first building to have a zero-carbon footprint, showing what’s possible in the built industry wh
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Investments into Scion projects to further forestry research

12 September 2022
Two innovative Scion research projects will receive investment funding totalling NZ$1.9 million over three years through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s 2022 Endeavour Fund. Source: Timberbiz Scion scientists will also contribute their expertise to a further six
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BDAA national annual design conference

12 September 2022
The Building Designers Association of Australia (BDAA) National Annual Design Conference is something of an Australian landmark, a celebration of the nation’s top building designers, a place to learn, network, present ideas, see the latest and greatest examples of Australian bui
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Slash pile fires probed with new tool

12 September 2022
Spontaneous ignition of a forestry slash pile fire can cost forest companies up to NZ$200,000 or more, so the development of a probe tool to monitor temperatures before piles catch fire is a game changer. Source: Timberbiz In logging operations, the process of creating logs from trees
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NSW firefighters trained in pre-season

12 September 2022
Firefighters from across Mid north coast and Hunter were put through their paces, being trained and tested at one of Forestry Corporation of NSW’s pre-season fire days in Coopernook State Forest. Source: Timberbiz The training is part of a wider program to bolstering the organisation’
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Farmer of the Year says farm forestry was a saving grace

12 September 2022
Australia’s forest industries have congratulated newly crowned Farmer of the Year Michael Taylor and welcomed his comments heralding farm forestry as a ‘saving grace’ during three droughts on his property in the NSW New England district. Source: Timberbiz Mr Taylor, a sixth-generation
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