Building on 2016’s changes to the Building Code of Australia that saw timber (light weight) and massive timber building systems in the mid-rise space (up to 25m – generally 8 stories) b…

Although limited in its intensity and potency, January’s rise in the Australian dollar’s exchange rate with the US dollar appears to have put paid to an early rise in interest rates in Austral…

In late 2017, RISI released its latest Chinese timber demand study. The study predicts sharply slower growth in demand in coming years. Given the long-term nature of China’s continuous econ…

For the year-ended September 2017, New Zealand’s log exports totaled a record 18.2 million m3, accounting for a significant 57.4% of the total harvest. The much discussed export of softwood…

Australia’s exports of wood fibre continue to boom, with little sign of abatement any time soon. Both the two main export products – Hardwood chips and Softwood logs – experienced new export r…

Australia’s imports of sawn softwood – long a topic of fascination and interest – appear to have been stable across 2017, rising just 1.8% (

Australia’s sawn softwood timber sales were stable across 2017 fuelled by continuing demand strength and an increasingly widely held view that production capacity is fully stretched. Lat…

Australia’s improving economic growth was given a large kick-along in the September Quarter by previously under-performing business investment. Quarterly GDP was 0.6% and 2.8% for the ye…