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An industry-led movement is underway to increase the acceptance and use of prefabricated timber building (PTB) systems for large scale projects in Australia. As part of a FWPA-funded proje…
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A recently completed analysis of Australia’s national forest industry biosecurity programs has revealed exotic pests are a real and rising risk to Australian plantations and native fores…
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A new smartphone app has been developed to predict the moisture content of log piles undergoing infield drying. Inputs in the preliminary version of the app include log type, tree species, lo…
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FWPA sought to better understand the level of recent investment that has occurred within the timber industry processing operations. To achieve this, the industry was segregated into four c…
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Latest trade data shows that despite the strength of domestic sawn softwood sales, imports continue to fall, albeit looking as though they may have reached the bottom of what has been a two yea…
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Unsurprising perhaps, given the still record high levels of building activity in Australia, but sales of domestically produced sawn softwood continue to be very strong. For the year-ended…
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We do love to renovate our houses, that is what the latest data continues to show. Even through the midst of the super housing boom of the last few years, Australians continued to spend up on impr…
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The housing boom continues to cool, with total dwelling approvals falling to 214,7786 separate dwellings for the year-ended July 2017, down 9.1% on the prior year. While the total decline is…