OneFortyOne, Tenison Woods College and Noel Barr Toyota are strengthening their partnership for this year’s National Schools Tree Day on Friday 26 July. Tenison Woods College students are excited to ‘get their hands dirty’ and plant trees in OneFortyOne’s local pine forest plantations

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) has launched a technical extension program to encourage the use of wood products in residential Class 1 properties. The National Residential Construction and Fit-out Program, headed by Dr Alastair Woodard, a structural engineer and constructio

Full details will be published in the June 2019 edition of Wood Market Edge – due out on 28th June. For subscription information, go to www.industryedge.com.au DOWN 20.9% – at 14,778 approvals in May 2019, the fall from the year before was 20.9% 8,480 – Private sector house approvals

New Zealand is experiencing a collapse in the price of logs sent to China which could mean as many as 1000 people could be out of work according to recent reports. This is before you take into account the repercussions in other industries such as trucking and shipping. Sources: Timber

A radical overhaul of regulations and conservation management is needed if Victoria’s Regional Forest Agreements are to actually meet their worthy principles and achieve biodiversity aims, according to a regional forest group. Source: Philip Hopkins for Timberbiz The South East Timber

Plans for a Forestry Innovation Centre covering the north of England and south of Scotland have been unveiled as part of a major funding package worth almost £400 million. The Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal is a collaboration between the UK Government, Scottish Government and five

For more than 25 years, the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has brought critical forest research to global discussions, raising the profile of tropical forests and of people who depend on them. Its latest annual report shines a light on CIFOR’s achievements in 2018.

Glue-laminated timber structural grades in Europe are different than in Australia and the confusion between the two grading systems started from how they’re labelled. Both the Australian and European products label their glulam products using the GL’X’ descriptor, but it refers to dif

The first shipment of 60 containers of timber has been loaded onto the train at Werris Creek destined for Port Botany, as the region’s new rail hub gears up to take up to 230,000 tonnes of timber from Walcha and Nundle annually. Source: Timberbiz Walcha District Manager Gary Miller sa