Margules Groome Consulting participated in and presented at the 4th WoodChem & WoodTech conference held in Bali on 7 & 8 December 2016.   Rudolf van Rensburg, a Director of Margul…

Australia’s unemployment rate in January shifted down to 5.7% in January 2017, with 19,300 fewer people being unemployed than the month before. However, the headline data also showed that p…

In the land of the tall poppy, you know things are good when the dismal scientists – the economists – start to talk the economy up. They risk receiving a belting from the gloom and woe sector of the…

The following was supplied by Russ Taylor, President of Vancouver based Wood Markets International     With the expiry of the U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement, the outcome of what is…

Although imports have come off the incredible peaks reached in mid-2016, there have been few more impressive wood product import grades than the higher-value added products contained with…

Australia’s imports of sawn softwood continued to decline over the course of 2016, falling 15.1% compared with 2015 and totaling 590,782 m3. After peaking in March 2016, year-end imports ha…

Continuing one of the heftiest and longest running sales growth paths, domestically produced sawn softwood sales punched-out another record in the year-ended December 2016, with sales to…

Despite falling 0.9% from November, investor’s share of Australia’s housing loans in December 2016 still accounted for 48.7% of the total value al housing loans. The almost AUD13.2 billion…