Plans for a $2million Victoria’s State Government-owned native seedling nursery at Nowa Nowa, East Gippsland, have been officially scrapped. Source: Timberbiz The nursery, announced in 2020, was to be built on the site of a former sawmill on the outskirts of the town as part of the Go

The Australian Forest Products Association has confirmed that Australia’s forest industries have been assured more than $300 million in new funding, including a new National Institute for Forest Products Innovation (NIFPI), new measures to boost the billion timber trees program and su

Recent scientific studies into the 2019–20 black summer fires show timber harvesting had little impact on the extent and severity of the fires. [i] The studies conclude the extent and severity of the 2019–2020 bushfires were a result of years of below average rainfall, extreme fire we

Hindsight, it is said, is 20:20 vision. But it can also be extremely insightful. Take the Victorian State Government’s decision this week to scrap the native seedling nursery at Nowa Nowa, East Gippsland. The $2m nursery, announced in 2020, was to be built on the PR Adams sawmill site

The war in Ukraine has claimed a new collateral victim in Europe: the market for wooden pallets – crucial in the packaging, handling and storage of goods. According to the European Pallet Association. (EPAL), more than 600 million of its pallets and 20m of its box pallets are in circu

Tigercat Industries has developed a forestry dozer. The new TCi 920 will be doing the rounds at several US forestry industry trade shows soon. Source: Timberbiz The dozer will be branded under the new TCi badge, as Tigercat Industries continues to design machines for applications beyo

Stora Enso has entered into an agreement to divest its two sawmills in Russia. The company’s Nebolchi and Impilahti sawmills will be divested to local management. In addition, the divestment includes Stora Enso’s Russian forest operation which through its harvesting supplies wood to t

The Green Triangle Timber Industry Awards Gala Dinner will be held on June 10, 2022 at The Barn, Mount Gambier. Celebrating nine new award category finalists and winners, the evening is set to bring together industry members from across the region for the first time since 2019. Source