Holzkurier, a leading Austrian publication for the timber sector, has named Combilift as its Timber Trade Supplier of the Year for 2022. Source: Timberbiz The company’s continual product development, its impressive growth in the Austrian market and a policy of always putting the custo
Zandra Martinez, from Oaxaca, Mexico, has been appointed as the Chairperson of the International Board of Directors for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Source: Timberbiz Since 2019, Ms Martinez has served on the FSC International Board of Directors and has played an instrumental
The final touches are being put on the first of a brand-new fleet of Country Fire Authority tankers, providing Victorian volunteer firefighters with the latest equipment they need to help keep communities safe. Source: Timberbiz Twenty CFA brigades will receive the new dual cab heavy
The Nyanggan Gapi Café had previously been run by Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan Aboriginal Corporation out of a small portable container. Thanks to its success and with the support of a grant from the NSW Regional Tourism and Infrastructure Fund, and Forestry Corporation of NSW the organis
Scion’s innovation hub, Te Whare Nui o Tuteata, has won 14 domestic and international awards in 2021 making it an international timber architecture icon. Source: Timberbiz The Rotorua building is believed to be a world-first diagonal-grid (diagrid) timber structure for a three-storey
The Green Triangle’s timber plantation companies have invested in additional aerial firefighting capacity in the region to protect its plantation estate, natural environment and broader community this fire season. Source: Timberbiz The helicopter, a B2 Squirrel, has been engaged by th
The Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia has joined many other timber product industry voices welcoming the appointment of Andrew Leighton as the new Forest & Wood Products Australia Chief Executive Officer. Source: Timberbiz “Andrew has significant previous experie
An additional $3.1 million of Federal Government funding announced last year will extend the life of the three regional National Institute for Forest Products Innovation Centres, including Mount Gambier, to support innovation and growth in the forest industries, according to the Membe
Conservationist Bob Brown and five other activists will fight a charge of trespass later this year after they were arrested while protesting the logging of swift parrot habitat. Source: The Mercury In December 2020, the group was arrested in the Eastern Tiers, where the critically end
Global companies and financial institutions with the highest potential for curbing deforestation are largely failing to do so, undermining pledges to protect forests made at the COP26 climate summit in November, according to a recently released report. Source: AFP The Forest 500 analy