All timber and CLT building for Dunedin
02 November 2016
A drill rig began working in Dunedin in a more than NZ$20 million project to build a wooden accommodation complex to house Otago Polytechnic students. Source: Otago Daily Times Logic Group project manager Sam Cadden said the ground had been stabilised on a section of Union St to build
Continue Reading →Improve safety in Australia and New Zealand
02 November 2016
Industry safety champions in both New Zealand and Australia have come forward to show their safety leadership by becoming Principal Partners to the 3rd FIEA Forest Industry Safety Summit. Source: Timberbiz This conference series sold out in 2013 and 2015, and is running again in March
Continue Reading →Landowner to build roads for Marlborough forestry
27 October 2016
A landowner intending to harvest more than 100-hectares of Marlborough Sounds pine forest in New Zealand has agreed to build his own roads to transport logs following safety concerns. Source: The Marlborough Express Forestry company PF Olsen Ltd has applied for resource consent to all
Continue Reading →Award for new ‘green’ glue for wood products
20 October 2016
Scion’s environmentally-friendly bioadhesives technology has been awarded Biotechnology of the Year at NZBIO’s annual conference. Source: Timberbiz Dr Will Barker, Chief Executive of NZBIO, said the technology was a game changer for wood panel manufacturers. The Scion bioadhesives tea
Continue Reading →Award winning NZ forest scientists
13 October 2016
Scientists are scanning our pine forests from the sky to learn more about tree growth and are peering under the roots to find beneficial microbes. They have been rewarded for their efforts by appreciative forest owners. Source: Guide2 At the 2016 Forest Science Awards dinner held in N
Continue Reading →NZ positive on timber future
13 October 2016
“Challenges facing the NZ timber industry are real and significant but the industry is generally in a good demand cycle and sentiment is positive,” New Zealand Timber Industry Federation (NZTIF) president, John McVicar said. “Domestic demand for timber is very strong at the moment. “H
Continue Reading →NZ Timber Design Award entries close soon
13 October 2016
You have until the end of the month to enter the 2017 NZ Wood-Resene Timber Design Awards. Source: Timberbiz Stage One entries close on Friday, 28 October, which is less than three weeks away. Entries are already coming in, but if we don’t have yours it can’t be considered, said NZ Wo
Continue Reading →NZ considering incentives for forestry planting
13 October 2016
The New Zealand government is looking at measures to encourage more forestry planting as it examines whether locally grown forests will be cheaper than buying foreign carbon credits to meet its climate change targets. Source: NBR Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett told the Climate
Continue Reading →VicForest boss heads to New Zealand
13 October 2016
VicForests CEO Robert Green is leaving VicForests to pursue a career opportunity in New Zealand. Source: Timberbiz Mr Green will be taking on a position as CEO of Kaingaroa Timberlands in New Zealand, one of the world’s oldest and largest softwood plantations. He will remain with VicF
Continue Reading →Understanding forest land use study
06 October 2016
This is the key objective of a PhD research project that has just been developed at the New Zealand School of Forestry, University of Canterbury. Source: Scoop NZ This research is being conducted by a Vietnamese central government employee and funding for the work has been provided by
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