An international Wood Manifesto setting the future roadmap for timber and wood use in construction and other products will be launched in the UK this week ahead of the COP26 talks. Source: Timberbiz The manifesto – Growing Our Low-Carbon Future: Time for Timber – is a coll

Responsible Wood has published a Transition Policy for Chain of Custody certificate holders and certification bodies. The new standard supersedes AS 4707:2014 and is the Australian adoption of the PEFC International Chain of Custody Standard PEFC ST 2002:2020. Source: Timberbiz Althou

Forestry Corporation of NSW has overseen 16 million pine and hardwood seedlings hand planted this year, a record effort to rebuild State plantation forests lost in the Black Summer bushfires and previously harvested. Source: Timberbiz Forestry Corporation’s Strategy and Risk Manager,

Australia’s commercial plantation estate stood at 1.8 million hectares in 2019-20 according to statistics released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences. Source: Timberbiz ABARES Acting Executive Director, Dr Jared Greenville, said the

Southern Tasmania, Gippsland, the Victorian side of the Green Triangle and Kangaroo Island can now participate in the Emissions Reduction Fund with the Federal Government yesterday removing the highly contested rainfall regulation, known as the ‘water rule’. Source: Timberbiz In July

Tigercat has released the 822E series feller bunchers and harvesters with the latest features and upgrades. Source: Timberbiz The 822E is the most compact track feller buncher and harvester platform in the Tigercat track carrier line-up. The powerful machine is versatile for challengi

Earlier in October the 69th edition of the International Softwood Conference was held for the first time in a hybrid form, at the Clarion hotel in Helsinki and online. The Conference was hosted by Finnish Sawmills Association, which co-organized the event with the two usual partners:

Continuous building activities as a result of fast urbanisation and population growth are leading countries to invest in private and public infrastructure, such as housing, which is driving up demand for timber and, as a result, driving up sales of timber trailers. Source: TechBullion