Health insurer Bupa has announced a new partnership between the Bupa Foundation and Trees That Count along with six local Community Grants in New Zealand. The Bupa Foundation, which has been operating in Australia since 2005, has invested more than $35m in more than 130 different heal

  The South Australian Forest Products Association has hailed the start of Timberlink’s $63 million NeXTimber facility in Tarpeena in the State’s South-East as the first step on the road to transformative change in the way we build the buildings of the future. Source: Timberbiz S

The Australian Forest Products Association has congratulated timber-manufacturing trailblazer Hyne Group’s new partnership with UK based timber processor James Jones & Sons. Source: Timberbiz The deal comes at an exciting time for processing in Australia, especially with new oppor

The Upper House committee examining the long-term sustainability and future of the timber and forest products industry held a hearing in Tumut yesterday. The hearing at the Tumut Golf Club saw logging contractors, councils and local mill businesses address the committee. Source: Timbe

Victoria’s State Government has told VicForests to back off taking legal action to recover $2 million in taxpayers’ funds from the anti-logging group MyEnvironment, according to a report in the Weekly Times. Source: Timberbiz The move has led the timber industry and Opposition to accu

Italian company INWIT has built Italy’s first wooden structured mobile telecommunications tower. Work has finished on the installation of the first structure made of glued laminated timber, an alternative to steel. Source: Timberbiz It is 40 metres high with four walkways to position

The Sokol CLT plant belonging to Segezha Group, a subsidiary of Sistema PJSFC has successfully passed Conformite Europeenne certification (CE) for its cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels. Source: Timberbiz The CE certificate was obtained after a field audit performed by employees of H

The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct the first-ever National Agroforestry Survey. Data collection began 1 February and will conclude on 5 April, 2022. The survey will be sent to 11,100 farmers and ranchers nationwide to

After a number of false starts due to Covid, the DesignBUILD architecture, building, construction and design event will run from 10-12 May at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. Source: Timberbiz DesignBUILD will welcome the industry back to an event reimagined from the