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

Opinion Peter Attiwill: Kirkpatrick attack overshadows reality of bushfires

Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick, supported by five co-authors, makes a spirited attack on timber harvesting (Logging has a clear link to bushfires, 8 June). That is unfortunate because it overshadows the very real issue of how we manage our fire-prone landscape. Kirkpatrick attacks a peer
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Opinion Graeme Elphinstone: conservative extremists have caused Tasmania to limp

During my life I have seen many industries and businesses built up by people who have had vision, a passion for the future.  I think back to our Hobart waterfront and Henry Jones IXL and the massive orchard and fruit growing industries throughout Tasmania that supported that industry.
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Video conferencing to commission equipment during COVID restrictions

Segezha Group and Ledinek Engineering for the first time have used video conferencing to conduct programing and commissioning of equipment at Sokol WPP online. The plant is being upgraded to produce wall and structural beams. Source: Timberbiz Once the plant starts operating at full c
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Deere restructures to create technology focussed approach

Deere & Company (DE) announced a new vision and operating model in order to accelerate its success in the integration of smart technology innovation. The Deere Smart Industrial strategy is designed to unlock new value for customers and to help them become more profitable and susta
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Will pests poke Chinese government into trade war with Canada?

The Chinese government announced that it has found pests in logs imported from Canada and will be treating Canadian lumber with relevant precautions. Though China has not announced any lumber-related export restrictions thus far, Canadian forestry companies are concerned that this ann
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Plans to add to Cumberland State Forest

Discussions are underway between the Forestry Corporation of NSW and a landholder to add nine hectares of privately managed forest to Cumberland State Forest in West Pennant Hills. Source: Timberbiz Acting CEO Anshul Chaudhary said that while the proposal to rezone and develop the nei
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Buy Aussie Timber First brings timber industry together

The “Buy Aussie Timber First” campaign has seen the Australian timber industry come together to give voice to this message which, along with OneFortyOne, also includes AKD Softwoods, Boral, Hyne Timber, Timberlink Australia and Wespine Industries. Source: Timberbiz Like many other Aus
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10 years of WoodSolutions provided

Forest and Wood Products Australia WoodSolutions program has reached a milestone as it celebrates 10 years of providing high-quality, easy-to-understand information about the benefits of timber to the development, design and build sectors. Source: Timberbiz Initially designed to suppo
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NZ Minister for Agriculture promotes planting less trees

The Forest Owners Association says New Zealand’s carbon zero goal is seriously in doubt after a statement by the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, that the government would ‘need to step in’ if new forest planting increased to more than 40,000 hectares a year. Source: Timberbi
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