Tasmania’s State Fire Management Council has developed a guide for farmers wishing to conduct planned burns on their properties. Source: Timberbiz Planned Burning for Landholders and Farmers was launched at Agfest and aims to provide private landholders with the useful informati

In a construction market where budgets are forever under pressure, the use of timber materials in combination with offsite construction approaches can be a genuine silver bullet for astute builders. Source: Timberbiz Richard Smith, Associate Director of MBMpl Pty Ltd says where timber

One of the “big” events on the social and networking calendar is the AFPA Great Hall Gala Dinner in Canberra. Source: Timberbiz The third biennial dinner, hosted by Australian Forest Products Association, will be held on 12 September (6-10pm). It’s a gala celebration

A government/regional partnership has been working with business to grow new enterprise and transition from lignite to biomass energy to support business resilience in New Zealand. Source: Timberbiz If you are working or have an interest in the wood energy sector at a national, region

Australian building and construction products company, Big River Group, has formally announced its listing on the ASX under the company’s parent name, Big River Industries. Source: Timberbiz Following an application in March, the public sale was successful and stockbroker Taylor Colli

The union representing 200 workers who have been shut out of an Australian timber mill is seeking to have the company stripped of its certification as an ethical producer. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald In a major escalation of a three-week pay battle at the Myrtleford timber mill,

About 160 timber workers are set to lose their jobs because a supply shortage caused by the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires have left the Morwell mill unviable, according to its owners Carter Holt Harvey (CHH). Sources: Wangaratta Chronicle, ABC, Timberbiz The workers were summoned to a

The forests of the Solomon Islands forests have been logged to unsustainable levels, according to the Permanent Secretary of Forestry and Research. Source: Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation Speaking to SIBC News Vaeno Vigulu said the country’s forests had suffered due to the ma

The Australian Government is being urged to check wooden furniture imported from Vietnam, after the discovery of a massive illegal logging operation. Source: ABC News Investigators say logs from national parks in Cambodia are being smuggled across the border to Vietnam, where they are