The sudden announcement of the closure of New Zealand’s Pacific Pine Industries, a timber processing and sawmill in Putaruru, has left its 60+ employees reeling. Staff were called in from their annual leave this week to a meeting where they were informed that the company was entering

The New South Wales Forestry Corporation has advised that Edrom Road near Eden has been closed to the public until further notice following recent fires. Forestry Corporation of NSW’s Amba Addinsall asked the community to stay away off from Edrom Road until further notice and follow L

The Queensland Government has announced its native timber action plan with the government saying it is taking decisive action to support regional Queensland timber industry jobs, locking in hardwood supplies in the Wide-Bay Burnett region up to 2026. The new timber industry action pla

The Australian Government has instigated additional measures to support recovery from this seasons’ bushfires, which will include 60 more rural financial counsellors and support workers, with an injection of $15 million in additional funding to the Rural Financial Counselling Service

Federal Government support packages of up to $75,000 for primary producers affected by the bushfire crisis have been welcomed by the nation’s timber industry bodies. Both the Australian Forest Products Association, Institute of Foresters of Australia and the Australian Forest Growers,

This week’s decision to postpone AUSTimber2020 until November because of the devastating bushfires in East Gippsland has been met with wide-spread industry and community support. The decision to reschedule AUSTimber2020 from April required careful consideration of the impact on commit

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has announced executive leadership changes to accelerate the company’s progress toward achieving its K-C Strategy 2022 goals. Aaron Powell, President of Kimberly-Clark Professional, has been named President of Kimberly-Clark’s Asia-Pacific consum

South American company Celulose Nipo-Brasileira (CENIBRA) has set a new annual production record in 2019 with an output of 1,222,888 tons of bleached eucalyptus hardwood pulp. This figure is 16,676 tons above its budget. Source: Timberbiz According to Júlio César Tôrres Ribeiro, Indus

In 2019, the worldwide sales of the European Producers of Laminate Flooring (EPLF) members was 447 million m² of laminate flooring from European production. The second half of 2019 witnessed an upturn and it is stabilizing at a high level, even through the influence of a declining wor