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The headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) remained at an annualised 1.5% for the year-ended September 2015, reflecting Australia’s anaemic economic growth. For the last four quarters, year…
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In November 2015 a series of seminars presented by Forest and Wood Products Australia’s WoodSolutions in conjunction with Planet Ark looked at current case studies and the future of wood and…
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Drones could be about to transform forest conservation by monitoring forest regeneration projects in the tropics. Drone-based monitoring was tested recently as part of a study by the Unive…
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Developed and built in-house, Scion’s new ‘DiscBot’ is a novel scanning technology designed to assess a range of wood properties that affect the quality of sawn timber and other end products…
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While there is increasing concern about the danger posed by flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) near forest fire fighting activities, the use of the technology by the firefighters thems…
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While the construction industry today depends a great deal on the use of wood and wood products, researchers in Sweden may be able to change the entire landscape of construction via a unique 3D…
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In September FWPA invited the submission of detailed research proposals for projects commencing from 1 March 2016 addressing published FWPA industry research priorities. The round clos…