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

Eastland Wood Council Industry Champion

Warwick Wilshier isn’t often lost for words. He’s the one that always steps up to speak, comes up with the new ideas and is quick to campaign for causes he believes in – especially if it helps someone else. But on being told he was being recognised as the inaugural Eastland Wood Counc
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Filming a different Aussie Thor’s Hammer

While Aussie legend Chris Hemsworth usually handles Thor’s hammer, in this case it was Stirling Machinery that employed a film crew to get a behind-the-scenes look at one of Australia’s most progressive timber companies, Thor’s Hammer. ‘The Hammer Crew’ led by Thor Diesend
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Top 5 – Australian Hardwood Chip Exports

Full details of Australian hardwood chip exports will be published in the June 2019 edition of Wood Market Edge, due out on 28 June. For subscription information, go to www.industryedge.com.au 515,602 bdmt – hardwood chip exports from Australia totalled 515,602 bone dried metric tonne
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Leadbeaters beat a path to logged and burnt forests

Leadbeater’s Possum, officially designated as ‘critically endangered’, has been detected in a recently burnt and logged forest further east from its main habitat area, according to a peer-reviewed study. The study, published by the CSIRO in ‘Australian Mammology’ earlier this year, us
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Code change needed to reduce energy bills and carbon footprint

Leading timber expert, Duncan Mayes, is calling for a national code change to tackle rising energy bills and make a dent in reducing Australia’s carbon footprint.  Mr Mayes, Timberlink Australia’s EGM Innovation and Emerging Business, says Australia’s building practices need to step u
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Order of Australia for Paul Madden of Arbuthnot Sawmills

Timber industry stalwart Paul Madden from Barham on the Murray River has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday 2019 Honours List for his service to primary industry and to the community of the Riverina. Source:  Timberbiz Mr Madden is general m
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Thailand achieves PEFC endorsement

Thailand has become the latest country to achieve PEFC endorsement of its national forest certification system. The newly endorsed system will allow Thai forest owners and managers to demonstrate their sustainable forest management practices in line with global standards and requireme
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Metsa paper and packaging centre for Finland

Metsä Board – part of the Metsa Group will establish a Paperboard and Packaging Excellence Centre in Äänekoski, Finland. The new centre will combine packaging design and R&D excellence under the same roof to be able to boost the development of new paperboard and packaging solution
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SkogsElmia 2019

When the Nordic region’s biggest forestry fair SkogsElmia finished for 2019 there was a positive mood among exhibitors and visitors. The theme of this year’s fair was the forest ownership of the future. More than 300 exhibitors from 21 countries assembled and a total of 20,438 visitor
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