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Working to form a national body for all sectors

Wood waste focus at bioenergy talks

Single voice Linda Sewell

Greg McCormack

Jim Snelson

Vince Erasmus

Bryan Tisher

Stephen Hawkins

Bold move on industry unification

By JIM BOWDEN

SIX prominent industry leaders have been charged with the responsibility of “designing” a single national organisation for Australia’s $23 billion forest and forest products industry.

The move for a bold new style of industry unification will be quickened by the signing, excepted soon, of an MOU between the National Association of Forest Industries

and the Australian Plantations Products and Paper Industry Council, with a merger of both organisations likely.

Despite all the changes in the past decade, the leadership and representation of the timber industry are as fiercely contested an issue now as they were almost 25 years ago when NAFI was established.

“It’s time to split from the past and create a new level of

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leadership to build campaigns that win victories for industry – a single voice that will be heard and understood and appreciated through the corridors of power,” a founding member of NAFI said.

The mechanics for the new entity will be driven by: • Linda Sewell, chair of A3P and chief executive of HVP Cont Page 2

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Plantations. Ms Sewell joined HVP Plantations after a 10-year tenure at Carter Holt Harvey during which she served as the founding CEO for the company’s laminated veneer lumber products division.

• Greg McCormack president of NAFI and owner of Victorian sawmilling firm McCormack Timbers, chairman of forest products and plantation business Midway Pty Ltd and chairman of Drouin West Timber.

• Jim Snelson, A3P director and chief executive of Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia Group. He was formerly CEO of Carter Holt Harvey Packaging Australia.

• Vince Erasmus, NAFI vicepresident and chief executive of Elders Forestry, one of Australia’s largest hardwood forest managers with more than 170,000 ha under plantations.

Mr Erasmus has two decades of experience in senior management positions in the South African timber industry.

• Bryan Tisher, NAFI director and executive general manager of Boral Timber. Mr Tisher joined Boral’s construction materials group in 1998 and has been a member of the executive management team since 2000 when he was appointed general manager, corporate development.

• Stephen Hawkins, A3P director and corporate and government relationship manager at Australian Paper.

Mr Hawkins came to Australian Paper from Carter Holt Harvey where he worked as sales and marketing manager.

Formation of a single national voice for industry comes at a challenging time for the

How do you employ Eventual merger? NAFI and A3P.

forest industry in a struggling global economy.

It also clearly highlights the current gap in the industry’s broader representation of activities.

A quick look at the make up of industry associations – watchdogs, if you like – since 2000 has seen a dramatic change. Some associations have simply disappeared, TDA South Australia the most recent. There have also been amalgamations – Plantation Timber Association Australia with the paper sector; the merger of panel associations.

Some of these have had a positive outcome, but overall there has been a reduction in association personnel of more than 50% and the technical sector has taken the major brunt with a 70%-plus reduction in technical staff.

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The new organisation will speak for all sectors of industry, embracing both hardwood and softwood operations In that same time, the number of issues being dealt with has increased many fold – ETS, illegal logging, green building council, bushfires, energy efficiency, sustainability, EPR, certification and the growing Cont Page 4

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Research helps forestry SAVE adapt to climate change THE Seven projects ready for completion

RESEARCHERS at Industry & Investment NSW have secured $1.12 million from the federal government’s $5 million forest industries climate change research fund The division, formed in July last year, embraces the Department of Primary Industries, including Forests NSW. The Minister for Primary Industries Steve Whan said the grant would be used to complete seven projects that would help resource the forestry industry to meet future challenges as a result of climate change.

“The projects are all designed to assist the forestry industry better understand what the

implications of climate change will be and allow the industry to adapt to predicted scenarios,” Mr Whan said.

“Forests can play an important role in reducing the effects of climate change.

“It is critical that we have a clear understanding of how this renewable resource will respond to climate change and how the industry can capitalise on any opportunities.”

The research projects I&I NSW will be involved in include the decomposition of forest products in landfills in subtropical and tropical climates; accounting for carbon in harvesting wood products in

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Dr Georgina Kelly .. investigating all parts of the carbon cycle.

a domestic emissions trading scheme; quantifying soil carbon stocks and dynamics following afforestation of agricultural land with Pinus radiata; providing the missing information for decision support systems to mange forests under rising CO2 and global warming and mitigating climate change through the sustainable production and use of forest biomass for commercial scale bioenergy production; conversion of eucalypt forestry waste residues to biofuels; and climate adaption strategies to manage drought risk and mortality in existing and new forest plantations.

Climate in primary industries research leader Dr Georgina Kelly said the seven successful projects would cover a broad range of topics to ensure all areas of forest production were covered.

“Our research projects will investigate all parts of the carbon cycle from understanding the impacts of forestry on soil carbon, to the impacts of higher CO2 levels and temperature on future forest growth, and drought induced mortality,” Dr Kelly said.

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shortage of wood.

All of these are heaped on downsized industry associations and the remaining few to staff them, so it’s no wonder major issues are slipping through the cracks.

The new organisation will speak for all sectors of industry, embracing both hardwood and softwood operations. It will galvanise efforts to address common issues, both globally and domestically – and, importantly, will be a ‘super body’ in approaches to state and federal governments.

To achieve high performance even during times of acute downturn, businesses – no matter the industry – must continually refine their market focus and position, develop distinctive capabilities that can adapt to shifting sources

Exciting opportunities .. growing demand for wood in Asia.

of competitive advantage and harness innovation to create new markets.

The new body will address the Plantations for Australia: 2020 Vision, a strategic partnership between the federal, state and territory governments and the plantation timber growing and processing industries, all

challenged to treble the area of commercial tree crops to around 3 million ha in 10 years.

As NAFI president Greg McCormack put it: “We are on the verge of many exciting opportunities, not least driven by growing demand for forest products in Asia.

Key challenges include valueadding opportunities, the spread of sustainable forest management certification, and a fight to overcome the current national trade deficit in forest products of almost $2 billion.”

He also highlights the importance of the industry engaging more with green groups and governments over the environmental credentials the industry offers the community, including the sustainable use of resources and the absorption of greenhouse gases by growing

trees.

When NAFI was formed in 1986, its main areas of concern were rapidly declining and insecure resource access; a fragmented voice in dealing with governments resulting in a low profile in policy formulation on industry matters; and a public profile that did not reflect the industry’s significant national and local economic impact or its concern with good, longterm forest management and regeneration.

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WHAT’S ON? 14: Seminar – Fair Competition and the Illegal Logging Trade.

Speaker: Juel Briggs, Briggs Veneer. Prosperos Restaurant, 310 Church Street, Parramatta, 6,30pm for 7pm. Hosted by Sydney HooHoo Club 215. Contact: Chris White on 0411 293 646 or Ian Ramsay on 0414 746992. Email: chrisw@moxontimbers.co 14-18: Interforest 2010 Trade Fair for Forestry Technology Munich, Germany. www.interfrost.de 21-22: Wood Energy 2010 reducing energy costs and improving energy efficiencies.

Rotorua, NZ. 21-22: ScanTECH 2010 Sawmill Scanning & Optimisation Technologies. Rotorua, NZ. www. scantechevents.com 26-27: ScanTECH 2010 Sawmill Scanning & Optimisation Technologies. Melbourne. www. scantechevents.com 26-27: Wood Energy 2010 (World Reducing Energy Costs & Improving Energy Efficiencies) Melbourne.

26-29: Combined workshop. ATTA / FIAPS / ForestWorks combined annual workshop Hobart. Details: www.atta.org.au

SEPTEMBER 2010 3-5: Canberra Timber & Working With Wood Expo, Exhibition Park in Canberra.

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Fax: (02)9974 3426 Email: info@eee.net.au 6-12: Landcare Week. www.landcareonline.com 7: WoodSolutions 2010. Program for architects, engineers and specifiers. Dockside, Darling

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Rotorua, NZ. Designed for wood processing operations in the dry mill and stand-alone wood manufacturing companies. View: www.woodmanufacturingevents. com 8-10: AFAC bushfire CRC annual conference. Darwin Convention Centre Australia. www.afac10.org 9: Wood Solutions 2010 program.

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Register interest at www.woodsolutions2010.com.au 9: Australia’s Place in the Changing Global Forest Products Market. Future opportunities for global forestry markets including renewable energy; certification and regulation of global markets; ownership and investment in Australia; industry-led solutions for a sustainable industry. Presented

by ForestWorks, Sofitel Melbourne on Collins. Note: Forest industries liaison dinner in the evening at the Regent Theatre on Collins Street.

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Getting together in Brisbane .. Nick Roberts, chief executive, Forests NSW, Sydney, Spiro Notaras, managing director, J. Hotaras & Sons, Grafton, NSW, and Russel Ainley, executive director, NSW Forest Products Association, Sydney.

Industry must push ahead on bioenergy Seminar spurs new interest

By Jim Bowden

SAWMILLERS attending Timber Queensland’s bioenergy seminar in Brisbane last week agreed industry must “tune in” to emerging technologies to reduce power costs using wood waste or “suffer the consequences”.

Timber Queensland has long held an interest in opportunities for using waste products in the form of sawmill residue for renewable energy production.

New technologies in the energy sector have highlighted the potential for plantations to supply biomass for energy production, without impacting on primary wood production.

More than 50 delegates represented a diverse range of interests – sawmilling, wood processing, government forestry, producer organisations, timber merchants, sugar milling, tree growing, universities, and energy consultants – at the seminar on July 1.

High profile speakers included Dr Stephen Schuck, manager, Bioenergy Australia, Greg Nielsen, director, Queensland Office of Clean Energy, Matthew Warnken, director, Crucible Carbon, and Terry

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McConnell, business and industry relationship manager, Energex.

In a recent statement, federal Coalition spokesman for forestry Senator Richard Colbeck estimated wood waste could provide as much as 7% of Australia’s current 2020 renewable energy target.

“In addition, it could generate an estimated $800 million in direct investment and create 2300 jobs, many of which would be in rural and regional communities.”

He said a timber manufacturing plant on the NSW central coast was using coal energy for its operations, but given incentives, it could reduce this fossil fuel energy use by 75% by replacing it with wood waste.

“Not one extra, tree, log, twig or leaf would be cut down over and above current sustainable production to make this fossil fuel reduction,” Senator Colbeck said.

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EU moves toward illegal timber ban

Importers press for ruling at Sydney seminar AFTER more than two years of negotiations, the European Council and European Parliament have signed a provisional agreement that, if approved, would ban illegal timber from entering the EU. Finnish MEP Satu Hassi, who succeeded British MEP Caroline Lucas as the rapporteur for the regulation, called the proposed prohibition “an important precedent for taking responsibility for the external impacts of European consumption.”

European Parliament will vote on the provisional agreement on July 7. If approved, it would then fall to the council to formally adopt the text.

Legal timber is defined as timber that was “harvested in accordance with the relevant national legislation”, along with adhering to “relevant international conventions to which that country is party”, according to the text of the agreement.

Brussels estimates that 20 to 40% of global industrial wood production is obtained illegally; up to one fifth of all of that illegal wood ends up in the EU. The compromise between the EU Council and the Parliament

Satu Hassi .. EU ban important precedent.

Juel Briggs .. addressing Sydney seminar.

contains two key provisions: the prohibition against bringing illegally logged timber into the European market and the obligation that timber and timber products be traceable throughout the supply chain.

The agreement also puts into place a ‘due diligence’ system that requires the operators who introduce the timber into the EU market to show that they have done everything possible to ensure that the timber comes from legal sources. This includes gathering all ‘relevant’ information about the timber’s supply and source, conducting risk assessments based on that information, and then attempting to mitigate those

risks.

The requirements for subsequent operators retailing in the EU market are less stringent. They are required to know where they bought the timber and to whom they sold it; they must also be able to present that information upon request.

Though pleased with the agreement’s progress, Satu Hassi expressed disappointment that member states “could not move closer to the Parliament’s position”.

Originally, the council did not support the prohibition or the traceability obligation for subsequent actors, while

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Parliament wanted full-scale prohibition that would cover the subsequent operators after the first place on the market. These two requirements are, arguably, the key tenets of the legislation, and did finally make it into the final compromise text.

Parliament also pushed for the regulation to cover a broader range of products, and for the most severe cases of illegal timber trade to be punishable by criminal sanctions. However, that request did not make it into the final agreement.

The issue of illegal timber imports will be examined at a seminar in Sydney on July 14.

“We have had RSVPs from numerous people including some from interstate and others representing different organisations,” says Chris White, president of Sydney Hoo-Hoo Club 215, which has arranged the event.

“They are keen to learn more about the potential job losses in our industry if unfair government policy or regulations on illegally logged timber imports are introduced without the same regulations applying to imported timber furniture and other products.”

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The seminar will be held at: Prosperos Restaurant, 310 Church Street, Parramatta, starting at 6.30pm. Cost: $40 p.p. (members); $44 p.p. (non members). RSVP by Monday, July 12, to Chris White on 0411 293 646 or Ian Ramsay on 0414 746992 or email: chrisw@ moxontimbers.com.au

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Speakers, including Juel Briggs, a director of Briggs Veneers, will press for the government to ensure fair competition for Australian timber merchants, joiners and furniture and kitchen manufacturers.

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But export volumes have picked up this year p and shipping schedules for the coming months would indicate that the shipments in the first half of 2010 will be substantially higher than last year and could very well be back to almost the same levels as the average for the past five years.

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Australia increases export of woodchips

A new development is the interest in the exportation of wood pellets with one company taking steps to ship wood pellets to the fast expanding biomass energy market in Europe. The first shipments departed in late 2009 for an energy company in the Netherlands, and 20,000 tonnes has been shipped to Europe so far this year. The three-year contract totals an estimated 300,000 tonnes of pellets.

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Lumboo .. Asia’s new structural engineered ‘lumber’ made from bamboo and now distributed in the US.

Grass is greener for China’s new structural lumboo

BAMBOO is winning a lot of accolades in the green building and construction sector.

It’s renewable, has natural antibiotic properties, and is biodegradable. And it takes only three years for bamboo to reach maturity.

Manufacturers are promoting its strength and durability. But the popular carbonised darker bamboos are neither tough nor hard and are comparable to the soft hardwood black walnut and maple.

Now Cali Bamboo, based in San Diego, California, has introduced lumboo into the US market “as the first engineered dimensional ‘lumber’ made from bamboo”. A product of China, it is manufactured by gluing strips of bamboo together into a block, using a low VOC resin.

The blocks are milled into 1×4, 2×4, 2×6, and 4×4 products, although due to the strength of the product, the actual sizes are much smaller than their nominal sizes.

Cali Bamboo is hoping to expand to framing and decking in the near future, especially if they can bring the price down.

Although it is also touted as termite resistant, the product does not have testing data to support that claim.

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INDUSTRY TRAINING

Guide delivers the goods on training ForestWorks helps streamline apprenticeship process

LEARNING and skills developer ForestWorks has launched a five-step process guide to accessing apprenticeships and traineeships, which includes resources and helpful tips to streamline the process.

The Flexible Apprenticeship and Traineeship Workplace Guide released to industry in June, follows development over 18 months in consultation with industry. Funding will be through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR).

The guide promotes Australian apprenticeships and demonstrates flexible trainee and apprenticeship delivery approaches.

User friendly, the guide centres around five key steps to gaining a qualification. By following these steps, users will learn more about registered training organisations (RTOs) as they gain a qualification.

The guide is also a useful resource for those unfamiliar with the terminology of the vocational education training sector and provides relevant contact details.

It includes a case study involving Timber Training Creswick and Dahlsens Building Centres where flexible training has been

Minn Stewart, material support officer, ForestWorks, and Damian Toohey, manager, Industry Skills Advisory Service (Forestry) Victoria, look over the Flexible Apprenticeship and Traineeship Workplace Guide at ForestWorks office in Melbourne.

introduced to meet the hectic demands of a busy worksite.

Timber Training Creswick has developed a flexible training model to meet the needs of its client which has lead to success in many areas of the business, including increased sales, reduction in lost time injuries and reduced staff turnover.

Brian DeClase, manager of the Dahlsens’ Ballarat frame and truss plant, says he is proud of what the site has achieved and accredits it to training.

Since the flexible training plan was introduced, Mr DeClase has documented a marked

increase in profit as well as a drop in lost work time.

A reduction of lost time injuries has seen work cover costs reduced more than 90%, an increased awareness, identification and rectification of hazards and employees encouraged, where possible, to re-enter the workplace on revised duties.

Sales at the site have increased by 64% with minimal increase in staffing levels, increased resource output and reduced costs through improved lean manufacturing processes.

Mr DeClase said there had been

a noticeable reduction in staff absenteeism. “Staff feel valued by receiving and responding to feedback via a 12 monthly employment review process and opportunities to identify workplace training needs,” he said.

A hard copy of the guide will be available to members and stakeholders soon.

Inquires should be directed to Damian Toohey at dtoohey@ forestworks.com.au A pdf version of the guide can be downloaded from www. forestworks.com.au

Global surge in wood pellet fuel GLOBAL production of wood pellets, an alternative fuel for heating, will grow by multiples over the next decade, helped by the European Union’s renewable energy regulations, an industry lobby group says.

Production will increase to 100 million tonnes from about 12 million tonnes now, Christian Rakos, head of the association of Austrian pellet producers, said in Brussels.

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‘At the end of the day it’s about utilising mill waste’

Dr Graeme Palmer, research scientist, Southern Cross University, Lismore, and Graham Hughes, environmental compliance manger, Dale and Meyers, Maryborough, Qld. From Page 6

Queensland, reflected the opinion of many delegates: “The seminar put us firmly back on track; we have to embrace new bioenergy technologies or ignore them at our peril.”

He said a 14% blow-out of power costs was making the sawmilling game very trough.

“In our case, with six sawmills spread over a wide area of the state, plus our processing plant at Toowoomba, this represents a tremendous cost burden,” Mr Gribble said.

“We need to assess all the processes available, but at the end of the day it’s all about utilising mill waste and fall down and forest residue – and coming up with the best and most economical process to achieve the best returns.”

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Mr Gribble said N.K. Collins was sure about embracing new bionergy technology .. ‘we’re doing our homework,” he said.

“But the energy business needs to consider the logistics of the timber industry. I’m sure a lot of them don’t understand the distances we must cover to transport wood waste.”

N.K. Collins has a mill at Mitchell on the western downs, about 590 km from Brisbane, another at Mungallala 50 km away, one at Augathella another 150 km away, and the Tambo sawmill which is yet another 150 km away.

“With so many sites it’s a logistic nightmare to relocate the forest residue and or mill waste and it’s a considerable contributor to costs. These are some of the things the bioenergy promoters must come to grips with if we

Matthew Croft, resource manager, Boral Plywood, Ipswich, and Greg and Paul Jackson of Palletmasters, Redcliffe.

are to move forward.

“But one thing’s for sure – if we turn a blind eye to this new technology, it will surely come back and bite us.”

N.K Collins Industries is a family concern operating for more than 40 years and employs 210 staff, with 70 employees at the Toowoomba head office.

A $3 million-plus expansion plan over the past 18 months, including a new wall frame and truss plant, shows the company’s commitment to the cypress industry.

The Toowoomba processing plant has the largest modern kiln drying plant, high speed planing machines, sizing and proof grading equipment, automatic fault line dockers and a state-of-the-art automatic end-matcher.

In 1990 the company diversified

part of its operations into the export market and exports about 30 containers a year to the US, New Zealand, Brazil, Japan and southeast Asia.

Mr Gribble said the US and Japanese markets were expanding rapidly due to the unique properties of cypress as a durability class 1 termite resistant product.

Visadamax and GS Energy were strong supporters of the seminar.

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NZ kicks goals with biggest showcase PLANNING for next year’s Forest Industries Expo has stepped up a notch with bookings opening on July 1.

Rotorua from September 5 to 7 next year, making the most of the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

Held every four years, the expo – or FI2011 – will be held in

The expo will also be part of a national Forestry and Wood

Industries Festival, with a number of other events planned to complement the expo during the build-up to Rugby World Cup. Event organiser Dell Bawden

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“The Rugby World Cup provides us with the opportunity to showcase our forestry sector on a global stage, and the expo is an important part of that,” Ms Bawden said.

The New Zealand Forestry and Wood Processing Festival will be the single biggest opportunity for the forestry industry to demonstrate its expertise, technology and products, and to reach new markets and grow the sector.

Ms Bawden said the expo would cover every aspect of the forestry industries sector from plant to market, and everything from genetics and growing, to harvesting, processing, design, manufacturing, technology workshops and links to domestic and international markets.

Traditionally held at the Rotorua Racecourse, this is the first time FI2011 will be held at Rotorua’s new Energy Events Centre.

The newly finished events centre is purpose-built, which will better accommodate both exhibits and heavy machinery alike. Heavy machinery such as the latest logging gear, trucks and sawmilling equipment will have plenty of room in the car park area and the Government Gardens Golf Driving range which is right next door.

Ms Bawden already reports strong interest from exhibitors.

“There are only a handful of specific, dedicated global forestry exhibitions and FI2011 attracts exhibitors and visitors from around the world,” she said.

Contact Dell Bawden on +64 7 362 7865.or visit www. forestevents.co.nz

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industry news

Wood modification joint venture in China will develop and assemble treated building components for the European market.

NZ-China venture targets Europe for building products

Radiata components for export PRIVATE New Zealand forest industry consultant Forme is planning a major joint venture with Chinese manufacturer Tianjin Sunwin to process wood into eco-friendly, high quality components for the European building industry.

Both companies plan to use a new environmentally safe wood modification process to modify plantation radiata into products suitable for substitution of threatened species.

The processing will be done at a factory the companies propose to build near the giant and rapidly-developing port of Tianjin, near Beijing.

About 100,000 cub m of high grade pruned logs would be primary processed in New Zealand and shipped for further processing in Tianjin.

This export project is made easier by the free trade agreement between New Zealand and China.

An application for official consent will be made in Tianjin to build the wood modification factory on about 80 ha of land that forms just part of the vast, 30 sq km Dongjiang Tianjin port, the world’s fifth-largest.

The wood modification plant will be the centre point of a wood processing ‘cluster village’ where locals would be employed to develop the treated wood into the components required by the building industry in Europe.

The modified wood will be used by the high value sector of the European building industry to replace tropical African hardwoods, which have been restricted by several European processors to help prevent the deforestation of tropical rainforests.

In contrast, New Zealand-grown radiata is a quick-growing, sustainable and renewable resource which is grown in commercial plantations.

It is recognised as the most suitable species for the wood modification process.

High grade radiata pine logs will be sawn and kiln-dried in New Zealand before being shipped to the new wood modification factory in Tianjin.

China’s building industry is also a market for the modified radiata pine. Planned start-up date for the joint venture is late 2012.

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wood technology

Global approach to Wood Expo 2010

Technology updates in Rotorua and Melbourne THE concept is simple and the feedback and input to the design of the new wood technology show and expo from across Australasia has been outstanding.

Wood Manufacturing 2010 in Rotorua, NZ, and Melbourne in September has been set up by the Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) to cover all wood processing and manufacturing operations in the dry mill or stand-alone wood manufacturing operations.

“Instead of running 2-3 yearly technology updates we’ve been working closely with key technology providers from around the world and local wood producers to run one single event – at one time and under one roof,” says FIEA director Brent Apthorp.

Event covers all wood processing and manufacturing operations in the dry mill or standalone wood manufacturing operations “The objective with this new format is to ensure a wide cross section of staff from any wood manufacturing company can come through to either Melbourne or Rotorua. The way the two-day program has been designed, there’ll be more than enough for managers and production staff to pick up new

Modern finger-jointing technology features in wood manufacturing showcase in Melbourne and Rotorua.

technologies that can be used to improve their efficiencies – in each part of the company’s operation.”

Wood Manufacturing 2010 will include practical workshops (many running concurrently so delegates can pick and choose the topics relevant to their own particular role within the company), managed exhibitions, demonstrations and displays.

The coverage in two days is extensive and will include the very latest on wood manufacturing layout and design; scanning technologies in the dry-mill; timber cross cutting and ripping; finger jointing; kiln drying operations; timber gluing and laminating; wood finishing (sanding, pre-priming and painting); production moulding, and timber machining.

Because of the interest by local

companies in the new show, and length of time since the last FIEA wood manufacturing event was held, the September show has attracted an even wider range of major technology providers to this part of the world.

In addition to local companies – product suppliers and wood manufacturers – technology providers from Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Austria and South Africa will be participating.

Many will also be linking in visits at the front and back end of each event to visit key customers.

“Automation, higher production speeds, optimisation technologies, material handling systems and case studies on how successful wood manufacturing operations (in Australasia, North America and Europe) have adopted and are using the new technology

Brent Apthorp .. case studies will show how industry has adapted to new technology.

will be the principal focus for this new program”, says Brent Apthorp.

“In addition to a large expo displaying new products and services in both Australia and New Zealand, major industry associations A3P, FWPA, the NZ Pine Manufacturers Association, NZ Timber Machinists Educational Association, the Glue Laminated Timber Association of Australia and the Australasian Timber Drying Group have linked in to support the event. Many have also arranged to hold their own meetings in and around the programme for their member companies.”

Wood Manufacturing 2010 runs in New Zealand from September 7 to 9 and again in Australia from September 13 to 15.

FSC pre-assessment of Gunns forest management THE SmartWood program of Rainforest Alliance has notified stakeholders that it will be undertaking a pre-assessment of Gunns Ltd forests this month.

This will provide the company with an analysis of its conformance with the FSC principles and criteria for responsible forest management

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and the FSC standard for forest management enterprises supplying controlled wood The pre-assessment will assess compliance using the SmartWood Interim standard for Australia and will examine environment, social, silvicultural and economic aspects of forest management operations.

The scope of the assessment

is about 429,250 ha in Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, including 316,000 ha of plantations (E. nitens, E.globulus and Pinus radiata) and the balance natural forests (productive, nonproductive and reserved).

The pre-assessment will be undertaken by an international team of auditors. Stakeholders

are invited to offer comment and feedback on Gunns’ forest management in writing or in person with the audit team. Smartwood will treat as confidential any information provided.

The audit team will be visiting sites from July 12 to 16. Audit team leader Graham Lea can be contacted on 042 972 0013.

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Tony Johnston, sales and distribution manager, Forests NSW, with Ray Ferdinand, managing director, and Keith Ferdinand, director, of GS Energy, Brisbane.

Greg Nielsen, assistant director-general, Queensland Office of Clean Energy, Rohan Allen, principal industry development officer, forest plantations, Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEET), and Michael Burke, principal policy officer, plant industries, DEET. Spiro Notaras, managing director, J. Notaras & Sons, Grafton, NSW, and Tony Johnston, Forests NSW.

Clarissa Brandt, communications manager, Timber Queensland, with Alan Alt, managing director, Austicks, Gladstone, and Damien Herd, managing director, People Planet Profit, Brisbane.

Peter Laksa and Brad Carswell, aborists with Pioneer Corporation Pty Ltd.

Nick Roberts, chief executive, Forests NSW, Sydney and Ian Brown, director, planted forests, Forests NSW. Rod McInnes, chief executive, Timber Queensland, and Dr Jorge Beltramini, senior research fellow, University of Queensland.

Jim Burgess, forest resource manger, Timber Queensland (right) welcomes Cypress Supplies Caboolture representatives Ray Collins and John Jeffrey.

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Chilean wood pulp industry shakes off February’s huge earthquake devastation CHILE’S wood pulp industry is on a rebound just four months after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck at the industry’s centre, severely damaging production facilities and halting production for nearly a month.

The majority of the country’s pulp mills are located in southcentral Chile, the epicentre of the massive February 27 earthquake that devastated the region. That and the subsequent tsunami paralyzed the industry, shutting down all plants, damaging employees’

homes and cutting electrical power.

As a result, Empresas CMPC SA, one of Chile’s two main pulp producers, reported first-quarter net losses of $50 million, along with a production loss of 260,000 tonnes of pulp.

The other main producer, Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion SA, a subsidiary of fuel and forestry conglomerate Empresas Copec SA, has yet to report the cost of damages, but a production unit responsible for 18% of its output, or 500,000 tonnes, still remains offline and

is expected to operate again later this year.

Yet the pulp industry in Chile, one of the biggest producers of wood pulp in the world, now is nearly back to full capacity, says a report from Dow Jones’ news wire.

CMPC and Arauco have nearly all production lines back online – with the exception of one of Arauco’s units – leaving CMPC operating at 100% and Arauco at 84% as of mid-June.

The Chilean pulp industry was quick to resume its role as producer of 8% of the global

Solution found to concerns over pine logs fumigation FORESTRY Tasmania and the Tasmanian Ports Corporation (Tasports) have reached an agreement to move the fumigation of whole pine logs bound for China from Burnie Port to an anchorage about two nautical miles offshore.

Work to investigate the feasibility of moving the fumigation offshore intensified after TasPorts representatives and Forestry Tasmania’s general manager of operations Paul Smith met the Burnie City Council.

“In summary, we were reassured by the council’s support for Forestry Tasmania, forest contractors and TasPorts, but also understood concern that the fumigation issue could damage efforts to change perceptions about Burnie and its industrial past,” Mr Smith said.

“There was general agreement that much of the community concern was based on perception rather than fact, but nevertheless those concerns could damage Burnie’s brand.”

Forestry Tasmania and TasPorts had been examining a range of alternatives before the meeting,

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Pine logs for China loaded at the Port of Burnie will now be fumigated offshore.

but intensified efforts when the basis of the council’s concerns were understood.

“It’s a relief to be able to finally settle on a solution that will satisfy most reasonable people,” Mr Smith said.

The ship ID Black Sea is now scheduled to arrive at Burnie Port between the July 9 and 11 after first visiting Bell Bay. Once loaded, it will move to an anchorage north east of the Burnie breakwater for fumigation.

Given the level of concern, justified or not, FT will in future avoid requiring in-hold methyl bromide fumigation of ships at berth.

“Exports are important to the economy and to keeping forest contractors in work. We will now work strenuously to either identify new markets, or new ways to export, where in-hold fumigation is not required,” Mr Smith said.

market’s pulp, with the first plants opening less than a month after the quake.

Despite the severe damages caused by the quake, CMPC and Arauco posted higher sales in the first quarter of 2010 than in the comparative 2009 period as a result of historically high pulp prices.

Arauco saw consolidated sales of $US784.9 million in the first quarter of 2010, an 18.9% increase from 2009 first-quarter sales. Arauco has yet to release the cost of damages to its assets and operating sales.

Gala TABMA dinner BILLED as one of the biggest industry events in New South Wales, the TABMA Australia annual dinner at Sydney’s Luna Park on October 29 is already confirming bookings from three states.

The dinner, expected to attract more than 350 guests, will incorporate the Australian Timber Design Awards presented by TDA NSW. The dinner has the support of eight sponsors including TDA, the NSW Forest Products Association and Forest and Wood Products Australia.

Vince Sorrenti, one of Australia’s best known and leading comic entertainers will be master of ceremonies at the dinner which features a top band, entertainment and fine food.

Official invitations will be posted in late August.

Further information is available from the TABMA offices in Sydney. Tel: (02) 9277 3172

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