Tasmania’s status as the only Australian state to achieve negative carbon emissions in 2020 is an amazing achievement and one that should be celebrated. However, there is more to the story than what you might have read in recent news. Tasmania’s carbon-negative position has been promo

  There is possibly only one thing more dangerous than a bushfire breaking out and there being no fire brigade around to fight it. And that is probably an ill-equipped, poorly trained fire brigade being sent in to battle the blaze. Which begs the question as to why “third party l

INTERFORST 2022 will be held in Munich from 17-20 July 2022 with a host of solutions for forest management from wood recycling for a forward-looking approach to forest management. Source: Timberbiz “Forest owners face huge challenges. We urgently need innovations and solutions to be a

Kesla, an independent manufacturer of harvester heads and forest machine cranes has launched a completely new harvester crane Kesla 875H. The first serial-manufactured harvester equipped with this new crane is the all-new Malwa 980 harvester, which was presented at Elmia Wood exhibiti

Komatsu Forest AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Komatsu is going to acquire Bracke Forest AB headquartered in Bräcke, Sweden, a company that develops, manufactures and sells application-specific attachments for silviculture. Source: Timberbiz Komatsu is planning to close the acquisiti

The Forest Product Innovations (FPI) team at the Salisbury Research Facility, a part of the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) is conducting a review of the current knowledge and attitudes towards adhesives used and the products that are produced throughout the A

ForestTECH is back after a Covid-enforced delay, with events scheduled for both Australia and New Zealand. The conferences will be held in Rotorua on 15-16 November with the Melbourne event on 22-23 November. Source: Timberbiz For 15 years, it’s been the one forest technology event ev

New South Wales Natural Resources Commission and Australian National University recently held a talkfest on so-called dieback. Unfortunately, the scientists mostly don’t understand that dieback is a natural response of healthy trees to acute stress. For example, healthy eucalypts may