Five thousand 40-foot containers of radiata pine logs have been shipped to global markets from the State forest plantations around Walcha and Nundle over the past 18 months. Source: Timberbiz Forestry Corporation’s Walcha District Manager, Gary Miller, said more than 150,000 tonnes of
Lesley and Craig Kidd, parents of forestry worker Lincoln Kidd, want health and safety standards improved in the industry to prevent another death. Source: Stuff NZ The mother of a Horowhenua forestry worker crushed to death by a tree say he should have received more workplace trainin
The Hancock Timber Resource Group is celebrating the planting of its one billionth tree since the organization’s founding in 1985. Source: PR News Wire The Boston-based timberland investment management organization recently celebrated the milestone with a group of conservation s
The New Zealand Wood Council is welcoming the chance to upgrade New Zealand’s free trade agreement with China, and up our forestry exports in the process. Source: Newstalk ZB Prime Minister John Key has announced talks will begin on improving the agreement that came into force e
A wide range of forest safety experts are making positive change in New Zealand’s forestry workplace, using peoples’ minds to bring safety culture change to their work situations and combining that with technology to make their job safer. Sources: Scoop, Timberbiz Workers and safety c
One of New Zealand’s biggest privately owned forestry land portfolios is for sale, comprising five separate plantations in the Lower North Island. Source: New Zealand Herald The portfolio encompasses more than 3061ha of trees spread across Manawatu and Wairarapa districts. The p
A new mobile preservative treatment plant will soon be traveling from New Zealand to the rural and maritime islands for treatment of sawn timber. Source: Fiji News In handing over the treatment plant, a representative from Crusader Engineering in New Zealand, Brian Hussey said that th
Nearly 400 hectares of dense, mountainous forest near the Kaikoura Ranges in New Zealand, a stronghold for indigenous plants and native birds, will be protected in perpetuity. Source: Stuff NZ One of Canterbury’s last untouched native forests will be protected for future generat
A recent NZ$33,520 penalty imposed on Forest Owner Marketing Services was a result of its forest harvesting operation on land south-east of Ōpōtiki, New Zealand. Source: Radio New Zealand Two contractors employed by the company were also fined. Gaddum Construction Ltd received a NZ$15
Zindia Limited, the largest exporter of timber products to India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Adani Port and SEZ Limited to promote a Timber Industrial Park at Mudra Port in Gujarat. Source: Indian News Link Zindia Managing Director Jacob Mannothra signed the MoU wi