OneFortyOne will invest NZ$11 million dollars in its Kaituna sawmill in New Zealand over the next three years. General Manager of Kaituna Sawmill Tracy Goss said the investment consists of three major projects to increase the sawmill’s drying and treating capacity. Source: Timberbiz “

Trying to bury carbon dioxide deep underground is another fashionable green fantasy. It consumes big dollars for taxpayer subsidies, but coal and gas producers will love it as it wastes energy and will increase demand for reliable energy. Artificial carbon capture is an unnecessary wa

The end days of the Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers saga involving the timber company building a deep-water harbour facility on the island played out in the South Australian Parliament this week. And it looks like it could cost the State’s Attorney General, who is also Planning Min

Five Japanese-inspired urban forests have been planted in Glasgow to mark the Scottish city’s role as host of COP26. The so-called tiny forest plantations are based on the work of Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who died earlier this year. Source: The Japan Times He pioneered a meth

The UK timber industry has produced a guide to measuring the embodied carbon in timber construction. The technical paper, produced by industry body Timber Development UK, is designed to ‘bring clarity’ to the process of assigning carbon values. Source: The Construction Index Assessing

Representatives of Lendlease, Stora Enso, Google, WEB Limited Group, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Green Building Council have called on governments and industry to make urgent commitments to tackle climate change and achieve a net zero society. Sour

More structural timber will make it to the housing market in South Australia through two regional projects receiving state government funding. Primary Industries Minister David Basham said Morgan Sawmill at Jamestown would get $283,000 towards the first stage of its plan to upscale. S

  New Zealand’s Signature Homes has signalled its intention to mitigate its house construction carbon dioxide emissions by planting around 45,000 native trees annually. Source: Timberbiz The company’s CO2 reduction program will kick off in early 2022 and Chief Executive Paul Bull