The aptly named Professor Tim Bugg has used bacteria to turn lignin into a strong, mouldable plastic. Professor Bugg worked with a genetically modified bacteria called Rhodococcus jostii w…

FWPA has an ongoing project which uses 3D printing to produce timber panels composed of forestry waste– and by- products. Interest in this technology is growing and cellulose has been found t…

Adhesive tape made from lignin, a common waste product of paper manufacturing, performs just as well as at least two commercially available products. Adhesives are often are made from petro…

Spiderman and Superman move over… the world’s next superhero could well be The Woodsman – a fearless fighter who battles evil while clad in armour woven from a nanofibre biomaterial derived f…

FWPA is excited to announce the launch of its inaugural series of podcasts, WoodChat, with one of the first episodes focusing on a new climate model which predicts how climate will impact grow…

An industry ‘game changer’ is how the Southern Tree Breeding Association has described the use of DNA technology in identifying the physical attributes of trees at the seedling stage. This t…

A new pilot program has been launched by Weathertex and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to understand the chemical changes that take place during the production of external timbe…