It was eight years since the Forest Industry Engineering Association had run a wood residues programme aimed specifically at those supplying biofuels, the forest products industry. The wood residues event …
Growth in sawmill investment – HewSaw seeing unprecedented demand
Recent market conditions for wood products have many producers looking to upgrade their equipment and facilities with new technology and primary processing gear. The past couple of years have been …
Mobile log scaling innovation at Tauranga
ISO Limited is readying another significant technology investment, at the Port of Tauranga. The Mobile Log Scaler is a semi-autonomous robot which will image and scale logs, on rail wagons. …
New NZ wood pellet press opened
A NZ business that has increased the amount of wood pellets it can make by more than half, hopes more companies will switch to burning pellets instead of fossil fuels …
Drone footage shows forestry windthrow from cyclone
Great swathes of forestry in the central North Island of New Zealand have been obliterated by Cyclone Gabrielle, with drone footage showing the scale of destruction. The Lake Taupō Forest …
New aerial imagery – before and after Cyclone Gabrielle
Cyclone Gabrielle left a trail of destruction in its wake as it swept through the Hawkes Bay area, and now with the power and accessibility of satellite imagery we have …
Exemplar timber designs through new Portal
Search timber buildings around the world by location or project type, filter by a range of variables and discover how you can add the benefits of timber construction systems to …
Engineering Solutions – Lakeland Steel and Bonfiglioli Bolster Local Sector
Lakeland Steel has been a leader in the design and manufacture of custom conveying systems for the New Zealand logging industry since 1976. While the company originated in the forestry …
Wood processing innovation grants welcomed
Australia’s forest industries will benefit from newly opened Commonwealth grants that aim to drive innovation in timber and wood fibre processing, encouraging manufacturers to value-add by upgrading processing facilities or …
March 2023 NZ log market update
Opinion Piece, Marcus Musson, Director, Forest360 You don’t have to look too far to find a negative report on our industry when it comes to the effects of the recent …