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ForestryConnect Digital Media Publication | ISSUE #144 | 29th of November 2017
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The logging ban imposed by China in it's natural forests may be a positive development for a majority of its timber trading partners. Find out more about this in the article
"Chinese logging ban to boost demand for foreign timber."
Why is New Zealand pushing for a quicker harvesting of it's radiata pines? Read more about the facts in
"Calls for shortened harvesting to plug wood supply gap"
In light of the many concerns surrounding the US-Canada Softwood Lumber agreement, the Canadian industry may seem to have found a solution.
"Made in China, with B.C. wood"
has the details.
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Industry Edge with Tim Woods:
Dwelling approvals down, but strength remains houses
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| Dwelling approvals down, but strength remains houses |
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For the year-ended September 2017, Australia's housing approvals declined 11.4%, falling to 211,855 separate dwellings. A year earlier approvals were more than 27,000 dwellings higher.
September approvals totalled 19,844 dwellings, just 0.4% lower than approvals in September 2016, but 1.9% higher than in August. It is important to note that ...... read more
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Woodchip sale agreement signed with Mitsui
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Mitsui visitors at the Magill bluegum plantation. Photo: Article Source
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The company has signed a woodchip sale and purchase agreement with international commodities trader Mitsui.
This five-year agreement establishes key terms under which the bluegum timber resource on Kangaroo Island will be monetised.
An automatic extension is built into .....
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The lumber industry looks to respond to the rise of mass
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| Log driving in Vancouver. Photo Credit: Article Source (Flickr/Tony Hisgett) |
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North America's
lumber industry helped define what it means to
build in the modern era. With the invention of the light balloon-frame, lumber became an indispensable resource to the quickly expanding United States in the 19th century. Over the past 150 years, the process and politics of wood have shaped a highly efficient industry that still provides the vast majority of the U.S.'s house ........
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HR & Social Media with Matthew Doig:
Making a Mentor
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Making a Mentor |
Modern organisations rely heavily on the ability of their staff to provide training and support across a range of situations. A significant part of this support involves mentoring other people in the workplace.
Mentoring is a collaborative relationship between individuals where there is a mutual sharing of responsibility in helping a ......
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Scaler
Thomaston, GA
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We are currently recruiting for a
Scaler for our sawmill in Thomaston, GA.
The Scaler will be responsible for ..... read more
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Forester
Arkansas Agriculture Department
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The Forester is responsible for supervising staff and managing and protecting the forests of assigned counties or .....read more
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Chartwell Consultants Ltd
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Chartwell Consultants Ltd. is expanding our Chilliwack operations and is looking for an Operational Forester to bring experience, guidance and skill to our team......
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Senior and Junior Forestry Field Positions
Tanglefoot Forestry Consultants Limited
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Work as a team member to assist in the development of block & road layout, GPS traversing, stream classification and timber cruising.... read more
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Forester
McKinley & Lanier Forest Resources, Inc
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Perform all types of timber inventories for timber sales, appraisals, management plans, & contract services.
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Calls for shortened harvesting to plug wood supply gap - (NZ)
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Calls for shortened harvesting to plug wood supply gap Photo Credit: Burim via Wikimedia Commons
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A forestry consultant is calling for the New Zealand forest industry to shorten the harvesting period for radiata pine trees to plug a predicted slow-down of wood supply.
From planting to chopping down a tree usually takes between 25 to 30 years.
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Southwood Fibre's woodchip export proposal 'missing link' for Tasmania's southern forests
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Certified plantation forest will be processed ready for export at the Southwood mill. Photo: Article Source (ABC)
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A proposed $42 million export facility for woodchips in southern Tasmania is the missing link in the rebuilding of the sector, the forest industry has said.
Southwood Fibre has lodged a development application with the Huon Valley Council for the facility at Strathblane, near Dover, which could create 145 jobs.
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Sawmills and pulpmills in the US Northwest have been struggling to build log inventories
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| A pulp mill in Alabama. Photo:Pixabay |
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Sawmills and pulpmills in the US Northwest have been struggling to build log inventories for the winter season because of the unusually long fire season this year, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review
Increased competition for small-diameter logs in the four states of the US Pacific Northwest has ...... read more
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Featured Product & Market Graph
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| North America has the most PEFC certified forests. |
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PEFC Certified Forest Area by Region (as of September 2017)
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Editor's Pick: Tree disease threatens Australian forests
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Timber manufacturer launches waste wood venture. Photo: Article Sourceby Tim Low
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A disease that has devastated eucalypt plantations in Brazil has reached Australia, where strains of myrtle rust could threaten gums, tea-trees, bottlebrushes, paperbarks and more, at great environmental and economic cost.
The angle-stemmed myrtle had been looking like a species saved just in time from .......
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Special Feature:
Is mass timber really sustainable?
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Forest in the Northern Berkshires Photo: Article Source (Flickr/Anslatadams)
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We like to blame a lot of things for climate change-namely coal and cow farts-but if we were to search for a worthy scapegoat, architects might end up looking in the mirror. The building sector is responsible for 44.6 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. And, with an estimated 1.9 trillion billion square feet to be built in the next 33 years, those emissions will not subside without significant intervention. On the flip side, for architects anyway, ..........
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Featured Video & Market Graph
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| Wood price index reached highest at 70.84 level. |
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Why Experts Choose to Build with Wood
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iShares S&P Global Timber and Forestry Idx Historical Price Data
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Rising environmental awareness to positively impact wood usage: FWPA research. Photo: Article Source
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Featured Media Release:
Rising environmental awareness to positively impact wood usage: FWPA research
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UK forestry now ripe for investment says industry report
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UK forestry now ripe for investment says industry report |
Over £111 million of forestry property was sold in the past year, 40% more than in 2016, according to the latest annual UK Forest Market Report.
According to the report, prepared by Tilhill Forestry and forestry agent John Clegg & Co, the market ......
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Made in China, with B.C. Wood - (CA)
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Exports of B.C. lumber to the U.S. totalled $4.4 billion in 2016, compared with about $1 billion in exports to China.
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Not even in Tokyo in the middle of the "largest ever" forestry-focused Asian trade mission could B.C. Forests Minister Doug Donaldson and industry leaders avoid talking about U.S. softwood lumber duties.
Last week, during a mid-mission teleconference from Japan, Donaldson spoke of the importance of increasing B.C. lumber exports to China and Japan.
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Chinese logging ban to boost demand for foreign timber
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A ban on commercial logging natural forests in China is expected to boost the country's
demand for foreign logs.
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A logging ban in China's natural forests will likely increase its demand for foreign logs, but the impact on the Northwest's timber market is uncertain.
Though the country will need to import more logs, it's unclear how motivated Chinese buyers will be to compete with domestic sawmills, which are currently offering high ...... read more
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The extraordinary economic growth of many countries in Asia over the last decade has made the region a primary driving force impacting wood demand and supply.
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World Forestry Center, Portland USA
April 3-4, 2018
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WOODTECH EGYPT is the international meeting point for wood and furniture specialists who aim to contuct business to business meetings for timber, design, furniture fittings and woodworking machineries.
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Cairo International Convention Center (C.I.C.C.)
16th to 18th of February 2018
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Heathman Lodge, Vancouver, WA
January 24 - 25, 2018
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Forestry companies doing well despite lack of softwood lumber deal
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Photo Credit: Article Source (Devan C. Tasa) |
Despite the lack of a softwood lumber agreement with the U.S. and uncertainty with NAFTA, the two forestry companies using the Pasquia Porcupine Forest Management Area are doing quite well this year.
While lumber prices are high due to tariffs, there's a large demand in the U.S. for the product, said
Doug Braybrook
, a woodland manager with Edgewood, which .....
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Tree planting scheme needs to highlight its benefits to
succeed - (NZ)
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Landowners will decide if more trees are to be planted in Taranaki. Photo: (Article Source - Ross Nolly)
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The forestry industry needs to highlight career and economic opportunities if it is to meet a government proposal to plant a billion trees nationally in the next decade, a Taranaki forestry consultant has said.
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones released an ambitious plan as part of the coalition agreement between New .....
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Sawn timber export value up by 22.72% in Jan-Sep '17
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Sawn timber export value up. |
In the first nine months of 2017, Russia increased its sawn timber exports again, both in value and in volume terms , indicate the statistics published by the Russian Federal Customs Office.
Thus, during the first nine months of the current year Russia exported 13.67 million tonnes ...... read more
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Taking timber to the next level - (MY)
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Sarawak wants to curb illegal logging and have an effective enforcement system in place. Photo: Article Source
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The Sarawak Government is in the process of reviewing policies related to the forestry and timber industries to ensure they take into account the latest developments.
Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan said the policies being reviewed included the state forestry policy, forest management certification, forest ........
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New Government Forestry Agenda
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The recent announcements on afforestation by the new government are welcomed.
The traditional forest industry of international corporates and farm foresters have already planted their land. It is more likely young farmers and Iwi will have spare land for new planting.......... read more
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Resources Minister Guy Barnett claims forestry employment boom
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An increase in the number of forestry workers in Tasmania is laudable.
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THE State Government has claimed a boom in forestry jobs with the release of a survey which counts park rangers as "forestry sector" workers.
The State of the Forests 2017 booklet was launched on Monday by the independent Forest Practices Authority
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"Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." ---- Albert Einstein
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