Australian sandalwood producer Tropical Forestry Services has rebranded, as the company pivots its focus from growing trees to marketing its product to the perfume, pharmaceutical and skincare trade. Source: ABC News Rural Now known as Quintis, the Perth-headquartered company said the

The Prince of Wales Award for Sustainable Forestry is open and entries must be submitted by 1 May 2017 but to enter you must join the Institute of Foresters of Australia. Source: Timberbiz The Award is to recognise the achievements of outstanding young forest professionals and is to e

New Zealand is missing a prime opportunity to combine its sustainable timber resources with an innovative manufacturing system to build faster and more efficiently. Source: Urban Developer Lend Lease Australia’s Head of Operational Excellence Daryl Patterson says Cross Laminated Timbe

North Narooma resident Bill Braines has finally got some answers about the logging operation that took place last year around his property off Wagonga Scenic Drive. Source: Narooma News The Environmental Protection Authority launched an investigation into the logging operation after n

Terang-based McVilly Timber has been placed into liquidation following a “lack of satisfactory offers” for the sale of the business. Source: The Standard McVilly Timber, operating under the company name of Mount Edisar Pty Ltd, was placed in administration last month with debts of $1

With the support of the Queensland Government’s Advanced Queensland PhD Scholarships initiative and in collaboration with the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Hyne Timber has appointed a Graduate Engineer to join their team near Maryborough. Graduate Engineer, Rebecca Ch

A motion to turn the Murray Valley National Park back into a state forest received unanimous support at The Nationals Party conference in Griffith this month. Source: Shepparton News The motion to convert the National Park back to the ‘‘Murray Valley State Forest so that sustainable a

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has raised concerns with the Forestry Corporation of NSW after recent compliance operations in Tantawangalo State Forest. Source: Bega District News “The compliance operation last week is part of an ongoing investigation into active loggi

The world’s most advanced sawmill and the first “super-mill” in the Southern Hemisphere is to be opened by Prime Minister Bill English in Rotorua. Source: The New Zealand Herald A “super-mill” is a sawmill that processes more than one million tonnes of lo