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Jason Wynard back on the podium in NZ Stihl Timbersports Championship

21 March 2022
Jason Wynyard has cut his first step towards claiming a 10th world title by winning the 2022 New Zealand Stihl Timbersports National Championships this weekend in Auckland. Source: Timberbiz The victory means Mr Wynyard has earned the right to represent New Zealand at the Stihl Timber
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C3’s new log vessel grapple starts work in NZ

16 March 2022
C3 Limited, part of the LINX Cargo Care Group, has unveiled its new C3 Log Vessel Grapple (LVG) at the Port of Tauranga, a first in Australasia. Source: Timberbiz Held exclusively by C3 Limited, and developed in collaboration with industry partner, Page Macrae Engineering and customer
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Project to develop safe load securing for logging trucks

09 March 2022
As part of the Forest Growers Research (FGR) program in automation and robotics, a project has commenced to develop a safe and efficient alternative load securing system in New Zealand for logging trucks. Source: Forest Growers Research NZ Many logging truck drivers suffer musculo-ske
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More frequent and broader possum controls demanded in NZ

07 March 2022
Protesters in New Zealand are demanding urgent action for broad-scale possum control in the Waipoua Forest and other Northland forests that are in a critical state. Source: Timberbiz “For too long our department has been asleep while our forests die. Waipoua, home of iconic giant kaur
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ACT says NZ shouldn’t be the world’s largest pine forest

07 March 2022
  According to New Zealand’s ACT Rural Spokesperson Mark Cameron the Government’s discussion document, ‘Managing exotic afforestation incentives,’ is a welcome and overdue opening to the concerns of rural New Zealand. Source: Timberbiz The ACT is a right-wing political party foun
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Radiata pine may be excluded from ETS scheme in NZ

04 March 2022
A new proposal to manage carbon farming could see future permanent plantings of exotic forests like radiata pine excluded from the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). New Zealand Forestry Minister Stuart Nash and Climate Change Minister James Shaw have released a public discussion documen
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Timber Design Centre virtually established

02 March 2022
An agreement to create an industry advisory service for building designers will promote and facilitate greater use of timber in New Zealand buildings, according to Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service deputy director general Jason Wilson. Source: Timberbiz “This advisory service,
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Pushing the envelopes for Australia and New Zealand

02 March 2022
Many paper products have declined in use in recent years. Envelopes are an example. As the digital age presses into every corner of our lives, humble, physical products like envelopes have been diminished form their peaks recorded less than two decades ago. Source: IndustryEdge But fa
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New Scion board members appointed

02 March 2022
The Scion Board has appointed Brendon Green (Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāpuhi) as a director and Dr Melinda Webber (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) in a 12-month future director role. Source: Timberbiz “I am very pleased to welcome Brendon Green and Melinda Webber to these roles,” board cha
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Anthropologist is not an expert on native forestry

28 February 2022
The Farm Forestry Association says anthropologist Dame Anne Salmond’s recently publicised views, that planting native forests offer the best solution to the climate crisis, is misinformed and misleading. Source: Timberbiz Association President Graham West says the overwhelming evidenc
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