14 September 2015
An innovative Christchurch start-up has signed a lucrative agreement with a Canadian company for its laminated timber technology. The deal could see a product developed by Prestressed Timber after the Canterbury earthquakes used in buildings throughout North America.
7 September 2015
Nominations are open for members of the Forest Growers Levy Trust board. There are vacancies for two members representing owners of large forests and one representing owners of smaller forests.
29 August 2015
It is acknowledged that the recent high-intensity rainstorms have triggered slips within recently harvested areas of plantation forest. Newly planted trees and decaying logging slash have been deposited into streams and on to beaches on the East Coast, Wairoa and Northern Hawkes Bay.
13 August 2015
The National Environmental Standard on Plantation Forestry is about rules for planting, managing and harvested trees that are aligned to the actual level of erosion, wilding pine or fish spawning. Not on which side of some arbitrary local government boundary you are on, environment minister Nick Smith told the Environmental Defence Society's conference in Auckland.
The New Zealand forester of the year and four new fellows were announced at the NZ Institute of Forestry annual meeting yesterday.
6 August 2015
New Forests is to purchase approximately 4,200 hectares of freehold land and radiata plantations in Marlborough from the Flight Group. Completion of the purchase is subject to approval by the Overseas Investment Office
29 July 2015
For Les Bak, forest safety is about respect, sharing knowledge, keeping it simple and getting workmates to look out for each other. It's a formula that's working. In the 10 years since he joined Nelson Forests, productivity per man has jumped 30 per cent and the lost time injury rate has fallen 80 percent.
29 July 2015
The newly created Forest Industry Safety Council (FISC) held its first meeting on Tuesday. The council was a key recommendation of the Independent Safety Review Panel that released its findings last year after investigating the industry's appalling accident record.
25 July 2015
Scion chief executive Warren Parker says he has always thought of the forest industry as strategically significant to New Zealand, but there is an ongoing challenge communicating its benefits to the economy compared to other agricultural sectors.
