Deep within Tasmania’s lush forests rests the prince of all Tasmanian timbers – Huon Pine. A conifer, Huon Pine is renowned for its exceptional durability, workability and beauty. In 2021, craftsman Emanuel ‘Manny’ Oppliger of Wood + Water, was commissioned to use this timber to make

Higher-than-expected harvest volumes and solid log prices led to a forestry surplus of NZ$4.1 million excluding distributions for Tasman District Council in 2020-21, driving up the overall activity surplus to NZ$12.5m. Source: Stuff NZ However, council finance group manager Mike Drumm

Plantation trees are valuable and become more so over their lifetime, there are however, a number of challenges facing the plantation insurance market at the moment with the majority of underwriters advising they are no longer offering this type of insurance. Source: Timberbiz There i

More than a thousand pine seedlings have started their decades-long journey to replace the iconic Sugar Pine Walk in Bago State Forest, which was sadly lost in the 2020 Black Summer bushfires.  Source: Timberbiz The former site was planted in 1928 as a range of different exotic specie

A deal has been finalised that will see the largest vessel to ever call at New Zealand for the loading of logs. The deal is between South Pacific Shipping (SPS) and Oldendorff Carriers and was brokered by Braemar ACM’s Bruce McFarlane. Source: Timberbiz Braemar also negotiated the dea

The Frame & Truss Manufacturers Association (FTMA) together with Tim Woods of IndustryEdge have put together a briefing on measuring the demand-supply gap in housing. Sources: FTMA, IndustryEdge, Timberbiz This six-page overview discusses: Australian dwelling approvals by type Ann

Australia faces a major sovereign capability gap in the production of timber house frames by 2035, according to a landmark new report by Master Builders Australia and the Australian Forest Products Association titled Australia’s Timber Framing Cliff. Source: Timberbiz The report furth

Frame Australia has postponed its hybrid November event to June next year. The postponement has been put down to the uncertainty of lockdowns and travel restrictions which are expected to continue beyond the end of the year. Source: Timberbiz “We reluctantly decided that, for all conc

STARSOIL by Seppi M was recently completely redesigned with the transmission reinforced and now designed for tractors up to 310 HP. At the same time, brand new technology – the first of its kind in the market was introduced, the 2SPEED-POWERSHIFT transmission. Source: Timberbiz This “