TIMBER industry veteran Peter Crowe says it’s time for the talking to stop and action to start when it comes to  increasing softwood plantations around Tumut and Tumbarumba. The chair of the influential Softwoods Working Group, Mr Crowe, and the Group’s CEO, Diana Gibbs, addressed an

 People who work with ForestWorks on skills projects know that the productivity of their businesses is directly linked to the skills they have. If you are a worker, an employee or a trainer in the timber and wood products sectors, ForestWorks want to hear your thoughts on proposed cha

It will take 1,600 cubic metres of spruce glulam, over 150 tons of steel and all the know-how of Rubner Holzbau to manufacture the large roof that will ‘float’ above the new Sydney Fish Market, connecting all the elements of the structure in a unique elegant movement that gives the bu

When a State Government Minister admits to discouraging its own agency from pursuing a $2m debt owed by anti-forestry activists, the unholy alliance between Government and activism is laid bare. It’s a collusion which appears to have informed many baffling government decisions on fore

In his valedictory speech in Parliament yesterday, the outgoing Member for Hunter Joel Fitzgibbon spoke passionately in support of Australia’s sustainable forest industries, declaring that “nothing is more important than the supply of our timber products”. In his speech, Mr Fitzgibbon

The recent hearings by the New South Wales Upper House inquiry examining the sustainability of the timber industry should have, it is to be hoped, opened the eyes of the committee members. The hearings in Tumut laid down the facts for the committee made up of Mark Banasiak (SFF), Mick

Snowy Valleys mayor Ian Chaffey said Australia had to make a decision on whether it wanted to import its timber, or grow it. Source: Tumut & Adelong Times Mr Chaffey was addressing last Tuesday’s Upper House inquiry into the long term sustainability of the timber and forest

South East Pine Sales has installed a new biomass boiler at its Wandilo facility, which will generate steam for their timber drying kilns and increase the efficiency of drying timber. Source: The SE Voice SE Pine Sales received an $88,000 grant issued by PIRSA towards the project, as