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WoodTECH Update – Issue 21

5 December 2019

Welcome to the latest issue of WoodTECH.News. This will be the final issue for 2019. This year we’ve produced 11 monthly issues and grew the newsletter to over 5,000 direct subscribers and more than 16,000 regular readers from wood producers across Australasia. As a reader, we appreciate your support. We aim to continue to bring you new stories on sawmilling ...
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What next? Fence posts without wood

2 December 2019

Business is booming for a Kiwi startup which turns plastic waste into fence posts. The new company, Future Post, has invented an environmentally friendly fence post made from 100 percent ...
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N.Z. Future Forest Products outlines expansion plans

2 December 2019

N.Z. Future Forest Products Ltd (NZFFP) has this week made a series of announcements about its future expansion plans. The company, which is focused on making sustainable New Zealand finished ...
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Latest quarterly Timber Market Survey report out

2 December 2019

The September quarter 2019 Australian Timber Market Survey (TMS) has shown downward price movements for untreated MGP products ranging between 0.4% and 1.3%. Treated sleeper and treated decking prices also ...
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Mill chapter closes for Kangaroo Island

29 November 2019

KPT has entered into an agreement that it expects to lead to the sale and removal of the main sawmill equipment that comprises the green mill, dry mill and drying ...
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X-Frame gets commercialisation boost

28 November 2019

Clip-together modular building design can be rapidly assembled, disassembled and reused, eliminating waste during a building’s lifecycle Victoria University of Wellington PhD candidate Ged Finch is fast tracking the commercialisation ...
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Design out waste and build lean in

15 November 2019

Product and process design drive 80% of the total costs, but most continuous improvement effort is spent trying to reduce the remaining 20% in current production. Taiichi Ohno, the father ...
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Durable properties for radiata outdoor uses

13 November 2019

Scion has developed a new biobased treatment technology that can give softwood radiata pine durable properties. The treatment increases the performance of radiata pine timber in outdoor uses including decking, ...
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Resource security for SEQ hardwood industry

6 November 2019

Timber Queensland has acknowledged the Palaszczuk Government’s announcement this week as an important first step toward recognising the need for resource security and the long-term future of the many workers ...
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WoodTECH Update – Issue 20

5 November 2019

Welcome to the latest issue of WoodTECH.News. Those receiving monthly issues of woodtech.news are principally those involved in sawmilling, saw-doctoring and wood manufacturing along with technology and equipment suppliers to ...
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Early EOI to present – WoodTECH 2020

30 October 2019

The very successful WoodTECH 2019 series has just been completed. With the focus on green-mill or sawmilling operations, around 350 delegates from local mills and technology providers from around the ...
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Cutting edge production techniques adopted

22 October 2019

The strong scent of pine you get as you pass by logging depots at our major ports is one of the more obvious signs of our booming export industry for ...
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Hundegger Australasia appoints NZ Manager

22 October 2019

Hundegger Australasia are pleased to announce the appointment of Benedikt (Ben) Buerschgens to the position Regional Manager – New Zealand. The expansion of Hundegger machinery in Australia and New Zealand ...
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Norske Skog announces sale of Albury Mill

20 October 2019

Norske Skog this week announced the sale of the Albury assets to Australian papermaker Visy who plan to undertake feasibility studies into the potential future uses of those assets on ...
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Largest North American CLT plant opened

16 October 2019

Engineered wood and building development giant Katerra's new cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam plant is now open in Washington. Katerra says the 270,000 square foot facility is the largest of ...
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Load detection and 3D collision warning for mobile intralogistics

15 October 2019

Warehouses and distribution centres are increasingly looking to integrate digitalisation, automated guided vehicle systems (AGV) and other mobile platforms to optimise their operations. Flexibility, reliability, availability, and productivity are the ...
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