The man credited with creating the wood chip industry, Pat Lamb, has been honoured at the Green Triangle Timber Industries Awards as an Industry Legend. The awards were presented at a gala event held at The Barn in Mount Gambier last week being held over from October last year because

Former Cabinet Minister and long serving Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon will join the Australian Forest Products Association board as an independent non-executive director. Source: Timberbiz Mr Fitzgibbon was Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in the second Rudd Government and

The first CLT panel has been manufactured at Södra, Sweden in its new Varo facility. This is the second CLT plant for Sodra. Originally it was planned to start production at the end of 2021 but mainly due to the Covid pandemic, timelines were moved to mid 2022. Source: Timberbiz Now L

From 10 July the Russian wood pellet exports to Europe, the main market for Russian companies, will be completely stopped. From this date, EU sanctions will come into effect, limiting the supply of wood products from Russia and Belarus. Source: Lesprom According to Lesprom Analytics,

The PEFC Board of Directors has announced that it has appointed Michael Berger as PEFC Secretary General/CEO as of 1 June 2022. Dr Berger was selected after an open and intensive process, managed by an external recruitment company. He has worked at PEFC since 2011, most recently as Ac

Private Forests Tasmania (PFT) has released its Corporate Plan that sets out its strategic direction, including its purpose, goals, and priorities for the next three years. Source: Timberbiz Private Forests Tasmania’s purpose is to facilitate and expand the sustainable developme

Newly published research by Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service into tree planting will provide welcome solutions to problems with which foresters and planters are all too familiar. Source: Timberbiz “The research has enabled us to come up with strategies to successfully plant t

AE Gibson and Sons has announced that its driving force and former owner John Gibson passed away on the 6 June 2022. Source: Timberbiz In a statement the company said that his passion, tenacity and leadership will be missed, and the 4th and 5th generation of Gibson management will con