The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has released an important new policy proposal that details an innovative approach to help reduce the risk of bushfires. Source: Timberbiz This policy builds on the strong recommendation contained in the Forest Industry Advisory Council

The Norwegian government is providing World Resources Institute (WRI) with 115 million kroner (US$13.85 million) over the next three years to strengthen Global Forest Watch, a platform for monitoring the world’s forests. Source: Mongabay Announced at the opening of the Oslo REDD Excha

The global wood fiber prices indices continued down in the 1Q/16 with the softwood price index being at its lowest level since 2006, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. Sources: Timberbiz, Scoop Both the HFPI and the SFPI price indices fell in the 1Q/16 with generally lower prices in

The total value of China’s forest products trade in 2015 was US$140 billion, a year-on-year decline of 1%, accounting for 3.1% of the total national commodity trade value. Source: Lesprom The value of forest product exports amounted to US$75.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 4%, m

What’s in a name? Plenty, especially for one Canadian company. In fact, ISIS Wood Product Solutions, because of world events out of its control, officially changed its name to MillTech Inventory Management Solutions, Inc. Source: Timberbiz MillTech – a leading supplier of

Timber lines the floor, ceiling and walls of a Darling Harbour apartment that has just won the award for best interior in Australia. Source: Stuff The apartment, designed by architecture firm Chenchow Little, has taken out the top award in the Australia Interior Design Awards. Domain.

Scion and licensing partner Sonae Indústria is one of 12 finalists in this year’s KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards. Together they have commercialised an innovative wood fibre reinforced plastic branded as Woodforce. Source: Timberbiz “Plastics made with wood fibre are stronge

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating implemented a revolutionary change to the framework for managing Australia’s forests. A quarter of a century later the time has come to revisit the forest agreements, argues Rod Keenan. Source: Policy Forum Native forest timber harvesting has been a

New recruits to the sawmill industry will get a better picture of timber grains and how to saw them with a new training tool created at Scion. Source: Timberbiz Using Lloyd Donaldson and Alan Dickson’s microscopic images of radiata pine, digital images have been converted to 3D comput