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Napier Port grabs a custom solution

07 November 2022
Napier Port’s senior crane operators safely and successfully loaded logs onto the Norse Mobile bulk cargo vessel using log grabs custom-designed and built for use on the port’s existing mobile harbour cranes. This was the result of a recent trial. Source: Timberbiz Napier Port CEO Tod
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Statistics hide the truth about forest farming in NZ

31 October 2022
Beef &Lamb NZ and Federated Farmers media release on recent results of an opinion survey on forestry offset adds to the misuse of information that’s building alarm and public hysteria around forestry that is not helpful according to the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association. Sourc
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Carter Holt Harvey NZ accused of squeezing independent merchants

19 October 2022
Suppliers ITM and Mitre 10 say they’re being squeezed by the timber company Carter Holt Harvey allocating structural timber to its own retail outlets by preference. Source: Stuff NZ, Newsroom NZ, Timberbiz The two independent merchant chains are caught between the big producers,
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Scion helps out English forestry with diagnostics

17 October 2022
The first occurrence of the pathogen Phytophthora pluvialis in Europe was discovered in Cornwall, England in August 2021, thanks to a diagnostic test developed at Scion. Staff from England’s Forestry Commission were surveying forests in south-west England for the presence of another P
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NZIF says the govt is sowing doubt and slowing down planting

17 October 2022
According to the New Zealand Institute of Forestry (NZIF) new forest planting is no excuse for polluters to delay reducing their emissions. NZIF agrees with the Climate Change Commission that the nation needs time in the quest to reduce carbon use. Source: Timberbiz NZIF says that rec
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Fines totalling $100,000 for careless harvesting in NZ

14 October 2022
Convictions and fines totalling more than NZ$100,000 have been imposed for environmental damage caused by a “highly careless” pine woodlot harvest and associated earthworks on a farm in northern Waikato. Source: Timberbiz Forestry company, Glenn Martin Ltd, and forestry harvest contra
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Thermally modified radiata pine process for NZ

12 October 2022
A joint venture in New Zealand has been set up with the timber modification expertise and experience of Denmark’s IWT-Moldrup and timber processor New Zealand-based Tunnicliffe Timber. Sources: ForestTECH, Timberbiz The process sees New Zealand radiata pine being thermally modified, u
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NZ Climate Minister sends a message that trees are irrelevant to climate change

12 October 2022
Foresters are saying a suggestion by New Zealand Climate Change Minister James Shaw to centralise buying carbon credits in central government, and decoupling the Emissions Trading Scheme from forestry, is a message that trees are irrelevant to fighting climate change. Source: Timberbi
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NZ packaging & industrial paper decline

10 October 2022
For nearly two decades, New Zealand’s exports of Packaging & Industrial paper and paperboard have been declining. Source: Industry Edge The 2021-22 financial year saw exports fall to 267 kt, down 7.7% on the prior year. The export result came as latest data confirmed production wa
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Forest planting is a solution to NZ biogenic methane discharges

07 October 2022
New Zealand’s Forest Owners Association says the highlighting of biogenic methane discharges, in a report just issued by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, is alarming and urgently calls for forest planting solutions to buy New Zealand time. Source: Timberbiz PC
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