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Latest timber industry news, updated on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Hyne’s new ammo in the fight for CLT and Glulam use

Between Hyne Timber and Rheinmetall NIOA Munitions (RNM), hundreds of jobs have been created in Maryborough for both shorter term construction and ongoing manufacturing capability into the future. Source: Timberbiz As Hyne Timber was finalising construction of a new Glue Laminated Tim
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Dave Rollins retires after 44 years in timber

After nearly 44 years in the timber industry, Dave Rollins will soon wrap up his ‘gap year’ and retire to tend to his herb garden and enjoy more time with his family. Mr Rollins began his career in timber in 1976 in Cumming Bros sawmill timber yard, after taking a gap year from his un
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Melina Bath sees success with Victorian Sustainable Products mill

A recent visit to Victorian Sustainable Products by The Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath has highlighted the value of local timber milling and manufacturing jobs. Source: Timberbiz Ms Bath visited Victorian Sustainable Products’ Fumina South mill to gain a com
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Indonesia achieves double digit growth in forestry

Indonesia notched up the remarkable feat of achieving double-digit growth from its forestry exports in the first quarter of this year despite the ongoing pandemic weighing heavily on global markets. Source: ForestHints Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya said tha
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Smooth system adds to JD machine response

John Deere has added its Smooth Boom Control (SBC) technology to its M-Series Tracked Feller Bunchers and MH-Series Tracked Harvesters. Source: Timberbiz Developed in global collaboration between the John Deere Wheeled Cut-to-Length and Full-Tree Forestry teams, the SBC system instant
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Norske Skog to take advantage of need for recycled board

Norske Skog has decided to convert one machine at its Bruck (Austria) industrial site from newsprint to recycled containerboard production. This is the first major step of the two planned European conversion projects in the group’s strategy of establishing Norske Skog as a leading ind
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Quiet achiever has 66 million trees

Twelve years ago, New Zealand Carbon Farming was just a concept. Now, it is one of the country’s biggest landowners, and its business model – planting permanent forest – is looking more prescient by the day. Sources: Stuff NZ, Timberbiz The company was founded in 2010. By late 2019, a
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Help for woodlot owners to market and harvest for profit

A third of New Zealand’s plantation forest estate is in the hands of woodlot owners. Harvesting can be a stressful time for some woodlot owners who may have little knowledge and experience of this phase of the woodlot management cycle. Source: Timberbiz A 15-video series, “How to mark
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A snapshot of newsprint imports to NZ, Australia to benefit

New Zealand’s imports of newsprint have long been highly limited, due mainly to the self-sufficiency delivered by Norske Skog’s Tasman Mill. That will change in coming months as the Tasman mill transitions to be a supplier of ‘pulp-on-reel’ products and perhaps take up other opportuni
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