Incoming Chair of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s forestry advisory council, Ross Hampton, says the world’s renewable timber and forestry sectors must be turbo-charged if we are to have any chance of achieving the global goal of ‘Carbon Neutral by 2050’. Source: Timberbiz M

Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia has appointed Gavin Matthew as its new Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this appointment, Mr Matthew was a Senior Policy Manager with the Australian Forest Products Association looking after the softwood manufacturing sector. Source

The Bob Brown Foundation has instructed its lawyers to prepare a special leave application to the High Court in the “Great Forest Case”. It follows last week’s Federal Court decision which 3-0 against the Bob Brown Foundation’s argument that the state’s Regional Forest Agr

The manufacturing union representing pulp and paper workers has slammed the Morrison Government for abandoning local workers during the COVID-19 jobs crisis by buying Indonesian paper instead of photocopy paper manufactured locally by Australian Paper in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. Sou

The availability of shipping containers and disruptions to shipping schedules is impacting the flow of wood product imports into China. Source: Tropical Timber Market Report The shortage of shipping containers in places where they are needed has pushed up international shipping costs.

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) will take place 1-3 December 2021 in Lisbon. The Festival moved from the original dates in June, due to the ongoing uncertainty created by COVID-19. The entry deadline is now 7 May 2021. Source: Timberbiz For the third year in a row, PEFC is spons

Gerald Koch hurries through a narrow corridor and into his testing laboratory. Inside, employees are squinting through microscopes and peering into screens showing cells and vessels.  Source: International Forest Industries Magazine Part of Hamburg’s Thuenen Institute, the boldly name

A head contractor has been chosen to construct Victoria’s largest timber frame building in Bendigo. A joint venture between Bendigo-based builder Fairbrother and one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest construction providers, Icon, has been appointed to deliver the $90 million proj

Professional Ownership and Driver Wellbeing Program sessions are set to recommence after a long delay due to COVID 19 travel restrictions. Sessions will be held late March in Tasmania and sessions in Western Australia are currently being organised with the date to be confirmed. Source