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Critical corridors
This Issue Looking at the politics of wood
Forest industry must jump potholes on pathway to securing viable future
By JIM BOWDEN
RESOURCE and forest jobs security remain key fighting issues for the timber industry as it confronts an oddly-aligned political cluster in Canberra after the federal election – Labor in the middle, independents on the right and Greens on the far left. It has also been delivered a new forestry minister who will have to take sharp learning curves on an industry he knows little about. You can’t fight city hall, so the forest and forest products sector needs to move quickly to present its case – as a united, cohesive force. Mineral, cattle, wool and grain leaders
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Tasmanian dispute Making must be resolved as an quickly as possible impact ..
across Australia’s forest and forest products industry .. since 1940
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much larger role,” the president of the National Association of Forest Industries Greg McCormack says. ”The key issues that NAFI will put to Senator Ludwig are the renewal of regional forest agreements (RFAs) and the necessity for a robust investment framework for tree plantations, particularly long rotation plantations for sawlog production,” NAFI chief executive Allan Hansard said. “We will also work with Senator Ludwig to ensure that the positive role our industry can play in mitigating climate change is recognised in future climate change policy and that any illegal logging policies that the government introduces do not place an unnecessary regulatory or financial burden on domestic processors.” A background to these initiatives is the on-going proposed accord between the industry and conservation groups in Tasmania over native forests – a long-standing conflict that must be resolved. But the hung parliament outcome from the federal election has produced an ugly elephant among the trees – the Labor-Greens coalition, and the Greens are hell-bent on closing all native forest logging in Tasmania and the mainland and the Gillard government has become a hostage to this issue. The radical conservation movement continues to demand the removal of forests from use without regard for or understanding the regeneration requirements of most of our eucalypt forests – and the jobs that go with it. The availability of obvious
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evidence in our forests, of successful forest use, regeneration and perpetuation along with all their values, is ignored. Also ignored are the devastation, wildlife carnage, stream pollution and massive nutriment losses associated with nature’s method of perpetuating most eucalypt forests. A small but vociferous minority of mountebanks purporting to represent the environmental movements are misleading vast numbers of concerned citizens who are honest enough to acknowledge they know little about the use of our resources. Industry is now urged to reach a consensus on conservation issues – a process which assumes that by each giving way on some points, agreement and peace will reign. Based on the evidence of 35 years of one-way compromise and concession, the results have encouraged rather than reduced conflict. Also, anyone who voted for the Greens needs to understand their policies beyond forest Cont Page 14
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New forestry minister keen to start talks with industry THE son of one of Australia’s most powerful trade union figures has been appointed forestry minister in the minority Gillard government. Born at Longreach in western Queensland, Joseph Ludwig, 51, has brandished his background as an industrial advocate who often represented rural workers, amid claims Labor has again diminished the portfolio. Senator Ludwig’s father Bill Ludwig is national president and Queensland state secretary of the Australian Workers Union and a powerful force in the state branch of the Labor Party. Based in Brisbane, Senator Ludwig has copped the same wrath from the Nationals as Sydney-based MP Tony Burke received last term. The senator said he would be
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Richard Colbeck .. Labor failing forest industry.
“carrying forward” the work done by Mr Burke and one of the first industry groups in his office this week will be the Australian Timber Importers
Federation keen to re-engage the government on its illegal logging policy. Senator Ludwig is a barrister and served for more than 10 years with the Australian Army Reserve. He was cabinet secretary and special minister of state in the first term of the Labor government. He was educated at the University of Queensland where he graduated in arts, the Queensland University of Technology, where he graduated in law, and the Australian National University, where he did postgraduate study in law. Tony Burke will move off his previous forestry responsibility onto water, the environment and sustainable population. With key rural independents holding the balance of power, there is already considerable emphasis on regional issues and a commitment to focus more heavily on rural communities in Labor’s newlook cabinet, with the biggest change a creation of a cabinet ministry for regional Australia. The new minister Simon Crean will also take over responsibility for regional development and
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Stakeholder forum to study potential of tropical plantations in the Top End A COMPREHENSIVE study of the potential of the forestry and the wood products industry to contribute to economic and social goals in northern Australia has been initiated with the support of the Australian Tropical Forestry Initiative. According to tropical forestry expert and spokesman for the ATFI Simon Penfold the study follows completion of a preliminary review of hardwood plantation sector in tropical Australia that examined current issues, future prospects and development challenges. ATFI supports, and is an advocate for, a broad range of African mahogany .. plantation development challenges in northern Australia. activities related to the development of a landmark CSIRO land and water sustainable tree plantation and science review of northern forestry industry in the tropical Australia which concluded that north. future expansion opportunities “The study, now under way, for irrigated agriculture in the follows in the wake of the north of Australia were limited,”
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Tony Penfold .. project will quantify forestry-related business and investment opportunities.
Mr Penfold said. “The forestry study will also refer to the failure of some managed investment schemes and other commercial realities.” Mr Penfold said the study and a related stakeholder forum would not only address plantation issues, but look broadly at potential forestry development, including such opportunities as biomass production, carbon storage and native forests. “An initial review of the science, policy and practice underlying forestry and wood processing in tropical Australia is being undertaken by a group of forestry experts,” he said.
“The report arising from this review will form part of the background upon which the stakeholder forum will be structured.” The background review report and stakeholder’s forum will evaluate prospective forestry development across a number of themes. Mr Penfold stressed that it would be important to examine and refine future tropical forestry-related research and development priorities. “However, the project will also help to quantify forestry-related business and investment opportunities, local government and community advocacy needs, and explore avenues to advance indigenous land owner economic and social goals,” Mr Penfold said. He emphasised that the project would be careful and measured. “It will take an analytical and coordinated look at the present and possible forestry opportunities across the two northern states and the NT.” Although preliminary consultation and the background review paper is well advanced, the timing, participation and agenda for the proposed stakeholder forum is yet to be finalised.
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WHAT’S ON? SEPTEMBER 2010. 30-2 October: The Future of Forestry and Forest Science Conference. Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne Parkville campus. The University of Melbourne’s School of Land and Environment and Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science is celebrating 100 years of forestry education. The conference offers past and present students, scientists, researchers, forestry and environmental professionals, and government policy makers an open forum to reflect on the development of forest science and forestry education over the past century and consider the future of forest science in order to meet the needs of future generations. Guest speaker Prof. Tim Flannery. Visit: forestry2010@ eventplanners.com.au September-October: Centenary of Forestry Education in Australia. Celebrated with various activities and events reflecting on the past, and preparing for the challenges of the future.
OCTOBER 2010 6: Forestry GIS conference. Waiariki Institute of TechnologySchool of Forestry, Rotorua, NZ. Visit: www.scionresearch.com/ general/news-and-events/events/ forestry-gis-conference-2010 8: Multinail machinery open day. Stapylton, Queensland. Working display of next generation of truss machinery, including the Mini 10 table press, the MAC saw, the Roller Master system, and the VectorSaw. Barbecue lunch provided. Visit: www.multinail. com.au
9: Queensland Timber Industry Awards Dinner. Sofitel Brisbane Central, 249 Turbot Street, Brisbane. Contact: TABMA Queensland. Tel: (07) 3254 3166. Mob:0438 295 136. www.tabma.com.au 10-13: Australian Forest Growers national conference, Mount Gambier, SA. Chief executive Warwick Ragg. Contact national office: (02) 6162 9000. 12: ForestWood 2010. A pan-industry conference jointly hosted by the Forest Owners Association (FOA), Wood Processors Association (WPA), Pine Manufacturers Association (PMA), Forest Industry Contractors Association (FICA) and supported by Woodco, NZ Farm Forestry Association (NZFFA) and Frame & Truss Manufacturers Association (FTMA). Venue: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington. 15: VAFI annual dinner. Crown Entertainment Complex, Melbourne. Contract: Victorian Association of Forest Industries.Tel: (03) 9611 9000. Email: info@vafi. org.au Web: www.vafi.org.au 15-17: Melbourne Timber and Working with Wood Expo, Melbourne Showground, Melbourne. Contact: (02) 9974 1393. Fax: (02)9974 3426 Email: info@eee.net.au 16: Back to Creswick. A day of centenary celebrations, children’s entertainment, campus, nursery, bush tours, major historical exhibition at Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, (formerly Victorian School of Forestry), Creswick.
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19-20: MTC Global Woodmart: Gateway to International Wood Markets. The first ‘one-stop’ selling and buying platform for all suppliers and buyers of wood and wood products. Early bird discount 5%. Organised by the Malaysian Timber Council at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia. Contact: Malaysian Timber Council. Tel: +60 3 9281 1999. Fax: +60 3 9289 8999. Email: council@mtc.com.my Web: www.globalwoodmart.my 29: TABMA annual dinner. LunaPark, Sydney. Incorporating theAustralian Timber Design Awardspresented by TDA NSW. Dinnersupported by TDA, NSW Forest Products Association and FWPA. Contact: TABMA on (02) 9277 3172
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$20m funding now critical for ill-fated forest contractors From Page 3
local government. Senator Ludwig is a strong advocate of consultation and says he looks forward to working closely with industry representatives connected to his portfolio. He plans to get out into rural areas, as early as this week. NAFI chief executive Allan Hansard said key issues to be raised with the new forestry minister included the renewal of regional forest agreements and the necessity for a robust investment framework for tree plantations, particularly long rotation plantations for sawlog production. “We will also work with Senator Ludwig to ensure that the positive role our industry can play in mitigating climate change is recognised in future climate change policy, and that any illegal logging policies that the government introduces do not place an unnecessary regulatory or financial burden on domestic processors,” Mr Hansard said. “NAFI will also continue to work with Senator Richard Colbeck, who has been a strong supporter of the forest industry and we welcome his reappointment as shadow parliamentary secretary on forestry.” Reappointed forestry spokesman in Tony Abbot’s beefed-up Opposition lineup, Senator Colbeck, who will go head to head with Senator Ludwig in the Upper House, says the forest industry and timber workers have little to look forward to under the Gillard Labor government. “Already, Labor has formally aligned itself with the Greens who oppose the forestry
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industry at every turn, and as new environment minister, Tony Burke is indicating to the media his support of ‘green corridors’ across Australia,” Senator Colbeck said. During the election campaign, the Coalition committed to delivering $20 million in assistance to forest contractors in Tasmania. Labor matched this in an 11th hour announcement during the close of the election campaign. “It is critical this funding of $20 million is provided to struggling forest contractors as soon as possible,” Senator Colbeck said. “Caretaker forestry minister Tony Burke was in Tasmania discussing this funding with contractors in the period after the election. There is no excuse for this funding not to be delivered within a matter of weeks. “New forestry minister Joe Ludwig should make a visit to Tasmania his first priority. Denison Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie previously indicated his support for government was reliant on the speedy rolling out of this funding. Disappointingly, he has now gone quiet on this issue.” Senator Colbeck said he would be advocating for the forest and forest products sector on other issues not least the impacts of climate change, regional forest agreements, renewable energy and forestry certification.
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Victorian industry to fight greens over native forest logging issues THE Victorian timber industry has vowed to fight the Greens on native forest logging, making the issue a key battleground in the lead-up to the state poll in November. Executive director Philip Dalidakis concedes that the Gunns Ltd decision to move out of native forest harvest operations in state-owned forests had ‘’the potential to establish a precedent in the public mind’’. But he said the company was pursuing its own corporate strategy, which had little to do with a broader industry strategy, appropriate government policy or responsible forest management. Shutting down Victoria’s native forest logging would increase imports of timber products harvested under irresponsible environmental regimes, Mr Dalidakis said The Victorian Greens have seized on the move and called on the Brumby government to immediately end native forest logging and transfer the industry into plantations. ‘’This is environmental hypocrisy at its worst,” Mr Dalidakis said. “The Greens have argued against native forestry and recently against plantation development, which makes me wonder which magic potion will appear to produce the wood and paper products consumers demand,’’ he said. Speaking with T&F enews, Mr Dalidakis said that so far as the industry was concerned, it must be careful not to self perpetuate the ‘gloom and doom’ of the Gunns announcement. “The simple answer is Gunns is entitled and required to pursue whatever corporate strategy is in its company and shareholders’ best interests. Greg L’Estrange and his board would be derelict in their duties
Philip Dalidakis .. environmental hypocrisy.
Greg L’Estrange .. opting out of native forests.
if they did not,” he said. “As an industry, we must be mature enough to defend their decision in isolation, regardless of Gunns public comments on the issue. “Gunns can pursue their own corporate strategy. However, this need not (and in this case does not) reflect broader industry strategy, appropriate state and federal government policy or responsible forest management.” It is understood the government is keen to bolster its environmental credentials before the state election by announcing a small reduction in native forest logging. Party strategists are believed to be currently looking at some of the controversial logging operations in Melbourne’s water catchments. Both Labor and the Coalition back Victoria’s native forest industry, which is managed, on behalf of the taxpayer, by VicForests and provides onethird of the state’s timber. Government spokeswoman Emma Tyner in the Melbourne Age said any bans on the industry would mean unsustainable options such as ‘’steel, aluminium or illegal timber from overseas’’ and that was ‘’unacceptable’’. Opposition environment
spokeswoman Mary Wooldridge said the Coalition supported a vibrant logging industry. She said the party believed it was not possible for native forest logging operations to move entirely into plantations because there were simply not
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enough plantations to support the industry. In the past few years, Gunns has built up its stake in Victoria’s timber industry, with large sawmilling assets at Heyfield and Alexandra. Greg L’Estrange says it is difficult in Victoria to transfer to plantations because the plantation trees are mostly in the state’s southwest, far from its sawmills. Nevertheless, the company had taken on a broad policy of removing itself from native forests. ‘’There are no immediate plans for Victoria, but what we are saying is that we are progressively moving out of native forest logging. The first thing on the agenda, however, is to deal with what is happening in Tasmania,’’ he said.
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FOREST INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE – MELBOURNE
Australia ‘driver of social justice’ in the wood certification process
‘Tree museums’ are a romantic urban myth biologically AUSTRALIA globally has been recognised as a driver of social justice in the wood certification process, according to the research and education director of the largest labour union for timber workers in the US. “This is critically important because at the end of the day, if in fact the elephant in the forest industry is a political beast, it is social outcomes that will generate legitimacy and pressure on governments to do the right thing, rather than simply reacting to short-term pressures that may not generate social outcomes,” says William V. Street, jnr of the International Woodworkers of America. Mr Street, who is also global president of the Program for Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes, was speaking at the forest industry development conference in Melbourne, organised by ForestWorks. “We are both helping to educate the world that ‘tree museums’, while a fabulous romantic urban myth biologically, are not a possibility,” he told conference delegates. “You cannot lock up a forest at any particular stage of its development and try to turn it into a museum – it’s a living biological entity and it will do a number of things. “In my portion of the Pacific Northwest, what it will do is burn. In other regions it will fall and rot. Yet a ‘tree museum’ is the goal of many groups who do not look at forest management the way PEFC does. We will fight this, and fight it for a very long time.” Mr Street added: “Likewise the notion that forests must have an economic value to remain in plantations is supported by carbon storage opportunities,
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Pictured after the certification session at the forest industry development conference in Melbourne are, from left, Michael Hartman, chief executive, ForestWorks, Malcolm Tonkin, manager, stewardship and asset program systems, HVP Plantations, William V. Street jnr, global president, PEFC, Oregon, USA, Corey Brinkeman, US president, FSC, Minnesota, and Jim Adams, chief executive, Timber Communities Australia (panel session chairman).
forest products – and habitats far superior to agricultural crops, cattle ranches and parking lots for destination tourist resorts.” Mr Street said directors of the Australian Forestry Standard had a keen awareness of the Australian industry’s role in the global market place. “They are going to be focusing more in the future than they have in the past on getting your brand out more prominently so a lot more people get to know your system. To know you is to love you. “We need to put far more resources into educating consumers and customers.” He said in the UK, the Netherlands, France and North America, chain of custody had been tripling every year for the past two years. “When CoC increases, it lets you know the market recognises the value of certification and is reaching out for it.” Mr Street said Australia’s achievement in getting AFS recognised by the Green Building Council “was driving the US timber industry apoplectic”.
“We are still fighting the US Green Building Council, which is tied to the FSC standard, to recognise all globally-accepted certification schemes. We can’t imagine you achieved this – and you did it at the beginning not the end of the process.” Mr Street said Australia was a robust member of the PEFC family. “We have worked well together to re-focus on the tropics and how certification can become a tool to stop the conversion of forest to non-forest land uses.” Mr Street said PEFC had been closely involved in an Asia promotion program. “I am pleased to announce that we will soon see China enter the PEFC global family,” he said. “In the last year, we brought the Malaysian Timber Certification Council into PEFC, a key link in the PEFC family. “MTCC was designed to be an FSC system built on FCS criteria and standards and up until the eleventh hour was intending to be part of the FC family. “Those involved in creating the FCS criteria and standards are now turning around and
attacking us for approving a national governing body that is built on the standards they promote.” Mr Street concluded: “Change is possible. The battle in Australia between the greens and industry has been going on for a long time. It’s time to end that. Moving forward to find an equitable solution is a value. “PEFC stands as an example that change can and does occur. Ten years ago we didn’t exist. Today we have 225 million ha of forest certified, the largest area under certification in the world. “With Australia’s assistance, we transcended our EU foundation and perhaps as early as November this year Argentina, Russia, China and a number of African nations will be joining the PEFC family. “We have the strictest social standard and have the largest number of family forest owners in the world.” Speaking in the certification session at the Melbourne conference, Malcolm Tonkin, manager stewardship and asset program systems, HVP Plantations, said mutual recognition of both FSC and AFS standards gave the Australian industry a social license to do business. “But my point is that forestry in Australia is a terrific business. It has a green footprint and employs people in rural and regional areas and there is a big demand for the products we grow – so there’s a social license through that,” he said. “Certification alone won’t give a company social license. You have to do other things. Certification for sure is part of that, rather than being the silver bullet.”
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FOREST DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
John Halkett, technical manager, Australian Timber Importers Federation (right) catches up with Double Helix Tracking Technologies representatives Kevin Hill, founder of the DNA verification technology, and Jason Geach, communications director, at the forest industry development conference in Melbourne.
DNA technology is at ‘tipping point’ for wood industry DNA technology was at the ‘tipping point’ in the timber industry to lower costs, prevent price dumping from illegal overseas product and create greater certainty for customers, the founder of Double Helix Tracking Technologies Kevin Hill said at the Melbourne forest industry development conference. “Tipping points are the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable,” Mr Hill said. “Pricing in the genetics industry has dropped in a similar way that computer chip prices dropped in the 1990s so that today it is affordable to genetically map tree species and test solid wood products like flooring, decking and furniture. “This happens in much the same way as human criminal forensic testing as popularised in TV shows like CSI. “To demonstrate the ability to extract and map DNA from timber, Professor Andrew Lowe of the University of Adelaide, who is also the chief scientific officer of DoubleHelix, an environmental technology company, is soon to release a demonstration that will put
things into perspective,” says Mr Hill. Professor Lowe has already extracted DNA from the timbers of a famous 16th Century shipwreck, the Mary Rose, which was no mean feat given that King Henry VIII’s flagship lay at the bottom of the English Channel for more than 400 years. The DNA now needs to be matched to an existing historical DNA map for oak that will put to rest the debate about where the ship was built – England or France. This high profile demonstration of the science will prove the feasibility of extracting and matching highly degraded DNA samples. “Further challenges remain,” Mr Hill said. “DNA extraction from plywood, veneers, pulp and paper is not yet viable. The extremely high temperatures or chemicals used to manufacture these products destroy much of the wood’s DNA. “However, as the cost of genetic research continues to fall and technology improves, it is only a matter of time before testing of these products becomes commercially affordable.”
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Silver anniversary .. and a new board guides NAFI through turbulent times THE chiefs of Tasmanian forest icon Gunns Ltd with more than 2000,000 ha under plantations and woodchips producer South East Fibre Exports at Eden, NSW, have been appointed directors on the new board of the National Association of Forest Industries. Greg Le’Estrange, chief executive of Gunns, and SEFE general manager Peter Mitchell were appointed NAFI directors at the annual general meeting in Melbourne last week. SEFE shareholders have plantation investments estimated at more than $400 million that cover more than 100,000 ha and 100 million planted trees. The new board will guide the association through an important period for the Australian forest industry as it comes out of the global financial crisis – an increased presence of Greens in the federal parliament and the ongoing development of climate change policy. Greg McCormack of Midway Pty Ltd, who has been a board member since 1991, was reelected as chairman. Ian Telfer of WA Plantation Resources (WAPRES) and Col McCulloch, chairman of the
Pictured at the annual general meeting of NAFI are back row, from left, Terry Edward (FIAT), Tom May (WA Blue Gum), Ian Telfer (WAPRES), Col McCulloch (AFCA), and front row, from left, Vince Erasmus (Elders Forestry), Les Baker (Gunns),Greg McCormack (McCormack Timbers), and Bob Pearce (FIFWA).
Australian Forest Contractors Association will also join the NAFI board as appointed directors. WAPRES has a large and secure share of the wood fibre industry in Western Australia managing thousands of hectares of bluegum plantations in the state’s southwest and exporting about one million tonnes of woodchips to Japan every year. NAFI farewelled four members of the board at the AGM – Bob Pearce, chief executive of the Forest Industries Federation WA, Les Baker of Gunns Ltd,
Vince Phillips of South East Fibre Exports and Tom May of WA Blue Gum. “Bob Pearce and Les Baker have each provided invaluable guidance to the association over nine years. I also thank Tom May and Vince Phillips for their contribution and look forward to their ongoing involvement as active members of NAFI. NAFI board of directors for 2010-11 include Vince Erasmus, Elders Forestry (vice-chairman), Bryan Tisher, Boral Timbers (treasurer), and Terry Edwards, Forest Industries Association of Tasmania.
NAFI is hosting a celebration dinner in Canberra in November to mark the 25th anniversary of its creation. The association was incorporated in November 1986 and held its first annual general meeting in October 1987. These events were the culmination of nearly two years of preparatory work by Dick Darnoc, then managing director of Weyerhaeuser Australia Pty Ltd who became foundation president. This resulted in the formation of a steering committee following a dinner convened by Mr Darnoc at the Royal Sydney Golf Club, Rose Bay, in November, 1985 – the beginning of NAFI. Industry figures appointed to the committee were Dick Darnoc (inaugural president), David Bills, John Duncan, Thorry Gunnersen, Warren Hewertson, Warren Hyne, Con Lembke, Peter South and Kevin White. Dennis Mutton was seconded from the South Australian Woods and Forest Department as first executive director, and Doug Howick of CSIRO was appointed secretary-treasurer.
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WOOD SOLUTIONS 2010
A project well constructed .. wrapping up the round of WoodSolutions 2010 forums at the State Library in Brisbane last week are, from left, Kevin Ezard, forums director, Michael Green, McFarlane Green Biggar Architecture in Vancouver, Eileen Newbury, event manager, and Andrew Lawrence, Andrew Lawrence, Arup Advanced Technology & Research Group, London.
Architects want to get to the root of wood’s real beauty
MORE than 400 architects, engineers, and developers of new office and domestic buildings came away from the WoodSolutions 2010 forums in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane this month with a greater awareness of timber design and a hunger for wood’s natural origins. They listened as an impressive line-up of international and Australian experts in engineering and architecture discussed the increasing use of structural wood in contemporary designs – but they sought deeper knowledge about tree growth and densities, forest sustainability, and where different species, especially hardwoods, were grown and harvested. “We want to go beyond the carbon sequestration message – include it, but educate our professions more about how wood evolves from the forest floor to become a warm and beautiful structure,” said one delegate at the Brisbane forum. Speaker Michael Green, principal with McFarlane Green Biggar Architecture in
Vancouver, said innovations in engineered wood products and wood’s environmental advantages were driving new applications for the material. He tackled the significant negative environmental impact of concrete and steel in buildings and in turn the significant benefits of wood. “Architects have a duty to address the problems of our profession as it relates to climate change. I believe the materials we build with are something we can easily address to make an enormous difference that will lead us to carbon neutral and, in time, carbon negative buildings.” Other international speakers at the forums were Andrew Lawrence, associate, Arup Advanced Technology & Research Group, London; Andy Buchanan, professor of timber design, University of Canterbury, NZ, and research director, Structural Timber Innovation Co; and Owen Griffiths, marketing director, McIntosh Timber Laminates, Auckland, NZ.
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ENGINEERED WOOD
Japanese rotary veneer technology features at plywood and LVL course NEW Japanese technology in rotary veneer lathes developed specifically for peeling small diameter logs into thin face veneer was a feature presentation at an intensive five-day plywood and LVL production course in Brisbane last week. The course, organised by the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia, attracted 32 senior managers and operators and included ‘hands-on’ site visits. Keisuke Takahashi, corporate officer with Meinan Machinery Works in Obu in Japan’s Aichi region, said plywood was an ideal product that excelled in many ways over board products in terms of quality, strength and durability and machinability. However, one of the problems faced by the global plywood industry, a shortage of raw materials, had seen an increase in the consumption of small diameter logs and logs of inferior quality. Meinan has changed the basic technology of veneer peeling by inventing the peripheral block driving system. As an example, Meinan’s Alpha rotary veneer lathe had been developed
Conferring at the Bardon production course are Simon Dorries, general manager, EWPAA, Ewan Brown, EWPAA’s quality control manager, and Michael Brown, Boral Plywood, Ipswich, Qld.
specifically for peeling small diameter logs into thin face veneer for decorative panels. Unlike other Meinan lathe models that have a circumferential drive system, the Alpha lathe uses a special roller bar for driving the block. This feature allows peeling of veneer without leaving incision marks on the surface, and also reduces lathe checks on the backside of the veneer. The result is veneer of superior quality and precisely controlled thickness. The lathe is well suited for processing small diameter logs such as those from plantations or as by-products from forest
Sharing information on new processing and peeling technologies for the plywood and veneer industries are Keisuke Takahashi and Shin-Ichi Sakamoto, senior engineers with Meinan Machinery Works in Obu, Japan, pictured with New Zealand delegates Duane Menzies and Tristan Wright of International Panel and Lumber (West Coast) Ltd (IPL), Gladstone, and Andrew Speake, Nelson Pine Industries at Nelson.
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David Herzig, facility manger, Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia, Nangwarry, SA, Andy McNaught, EWPAA technical manager, and Matt Fischer, Austral Plywoods, Brisbane.
thinning operations which would normally be classified as chipping material. This substantially increases the returns from low-cost raw material. New and basic technologies driving the manufacturing end of plywood and LVL production in Australia and New Zealand were reviewed at the course, held at the Bardon Conference Centre from September 13 to 17. The course focused on a wide range of subjects including modern veneer lathes and driers, veneer peeling, LVL bonding, veneer drying, structural properties of plywood
Vicky Roberts, EWPAA executive assistant, Brisbane, shares a coffee break with Neil Burgess, Big River Timber Group Pty Ltd, and Brett Skewes, Arch Wood Protection.
and basic wood science. Sessions on glue mixing, plywood adhesives and phenolic adhesives in bonding LVL were among major issues of interest for course participants. Werner Brandstaetter of Dynea New Zealand and Michael Vayro and Atul Kaira of Hexion Specialty Chemicals explained new science in adhesion and surfacing solutions, coatings and ink resins. This month, Dynea celebrates 10 years as a leader in adhesion and surfacing solutions, marked by the promotion of Dynea’s AsWood adhesive system that offers exceptionally low emission levels for producers of parquet and interior panels. In parquet production, the AsWood adhesive lowers pressing temperature by about 20 deg. C without losing any performance characteristics such as bond quality or water resistance compared to more traditional pressing parameters. With headquarters based in Columbus, Ohio, US, Hexion Specialty Chemicals is a global leader in thermoset resins and the largest producer of binder, adhesive, coatings and ink resins for industrial applications.
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Industry must act now or see higher imports and worsening trade deficit Decisions on native forests critical to future wood supply “We already have a trade deficit in forest and wood products of over $2 billion and this could easily double or triple without action.
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closures – their policies on tax. They include death duties, the doubling of the capital gains tax, the abolition of negative gearing, an increase in the top marginal tax rate and a move away from a tax on income to a tax on resources. And it is the Greens who will have the balance of power in the Senate. Dr Alan Moran of the Institute of Public Affairs Australia questions the durability of support of the four non-ALP MPs. All of them have compelling reasons to maintain Labor in power as long as possible. Former Green, Andrew Wilkie, and current Green, Adam Bandt, are positioned on the far left of the ALP on almost every issue. While they will try to drag things further off centre, the ALP will be aware of how poisonous this might be for future election prospects. “Certainly for the time being the two Greens must dine on the ALP main course,” says Dr Moran. “They cannot afford to force an election as both of them are vulnerable to loss, especially if the Liberals decide not to preference them on the basis that it is better to have the ALP in Parliament than people who will automatically support Labor and have a further platform for promoting whacko policies.” The two leftist independents’ position in the lower House will be strengthened considerably after June next year when, with the Greens support, the ALP can get measures through the Senate. Referring to the Tasmanian issue, Greg McCormack said at the forest industry development conference dinner in Melbourne:
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Tasmanian debate .. Damoclean sword hangs over native forest industry.
“The Helsham review of forestry was the beginning of a period of major change. It is ironic that history seems to be repeating itself with Tasmania’s native forest again providing a catalyst for change.” Mr McCormack says with the negotiations happening between industry, ENGOs, unions and communities, we may be seeing the beginning of a new approach to these long standing conflicts. “While an outcome is still uncertain, this is an opportunity for both sides to understand and appreciate each other’s points of view,” he said. “Discussions have been conducted in good faith and while the discussions have been on hold over the federal election period, NAFI looks forward to the recommencement of these negotiations. “There has been a lot of commentary about the negotiations – whether it is a roundtable, square table or coffee table. Whatever way is chosen to do this, we need a future plan – for Tasmania and the rest of the nation.” He said NAFI wanted to see a growing, diverse and vibrant industry in Tasmania
including options for hardwood sawmilling through to panels through to pulp and paper manufacturing. ‘There is no doubt that the industry will have to decide whether or not it will be reliant on native forests in the future. However, these decisions must be made in the full knowledge of the economic, social and environmental implications of the alternatives’ – Greg McCormack He is concerned that industry is facing a future shortage of wood. At current growth projections, a growing population will need 7.1 million new dwellings and a population of 35 million will require major increases in pulp and paper consumption. “We do not have sufficient access to wood from native forests or plantations to meet this future demand, he said. “Given the long lead times for investment and production of wood we need to plan ahead. Failure to plan now will see higher imports and a worsening trade deficit in wood and paper products.
“There is no doubt that the industry will have to decide whether or not it will be reliant on native forests in the future. However, these decisions must be made in the full knowledge of the economic, social and environmental implications of the alternatives.” Mr McCormack put some questions to the dinner guests: Do we have to exit native forests if we can sustainably manage them for all of their values? Do the views of ENGOs reflect the views of the broader community? What are the implications of moving out of native forests for management issues such as bushfire fuel loads? What are the public financial costs of managing forests without an industry presence? Are we as a nation happy to increase our reliance on imported forest products? What happens communities?
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With the result of the federal election slightly clearer, industry can get on with answering some of these questions. “While we don’t yet fully understand the make-up of the government and the involvement of the Greens, it was pleasing that the industry received bi-partisan political support from the major parties,” Mr McCormack added. • NAFI elects new board, Page 10
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BACKGROUND REPORT
The Latham mistake: forest logging policies that lost Labor an election ‘It was like watching a child tottering towards a fire’ – Julia Gillard “HALLELUJA! If they can pull that off it will be fantastic,” exclaimed Michael O’Connor, forestry division secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, on proposals for a single national voice for industry bandied about at the forest industry development conference in Melbourne. “I don’t think we can calculate the cost of not having a united voice for the forest sector,” he said. Mr O’Connor, who joined the future directions panel at the conference, has worked in the union movement for more than 20 years and is an outspoken supporter and lobbyist for timber, furniture and pulp and paper workers. ‘It was obvious to me that he [Mark Latham] was going down the next day to announce this big bad policy, and .. my political instincts were saying to me that this was going to be a fiasco’ – Julia Gillard. He has had a powerful influence on timber industry outcomes in recent years and remains a key figure behind Prime Minister Julia Gillard and ‘soft left’ factional allies Martin Ferguson and Penny Wong who control resources and energy and finance and deregulation. He helped Gillard and Ferguson into parliament and in her maiden speech, Gillard acknowledged him as her ‘’closest confidant’’, the “most committed of them all” to her Labor values, going back to her student days. Mr O’Connor fought against the Green Building Council’s star ratings system, which
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Tasmanian timber workers .. fighting for their future.
gave extra points for use of timber accredited under the FSC scheme. He went to bat on points to be given for timber accredited under an industry-backed scheme, the Australian Forestry Standard, which allows native forest logging. Late in 2009 he got it, calling the decision a “great breakthrough”. Constantly fighting a rearguard action to preserve native forest logging, Mr O’Connor helped sink Mark Latham’s tilt at federal office in 2004, swinging the CFMEU behind John Howard as the two main parties went toe-to-toe on Tasmanian forests policy. Tasmania has a landmass of 6.8 million ha, of which about 3.35 million ha (49% of the state’s landmass) is covered by forest. The forest estate can be broadly split into two categories – native forest and plantation forest. Tasmania’s native forest estate totals 3,116,000 ha and the plantation estate is about 274,000 ha. About 47% of Tasmania’s native forests are reserved. More generally, Tasmania has high levels of reserves, with
Michael O’Connor, national secretary, forestry division, CFMEU (left) at the forest industry development conference in Melbourne with Milo Foster, vice-president, family care-Southeast Asia, Kimberly-Clark Australia, and Greg McCormack, president, National Association of Forest Industries.
the state protected in world heritage wilderness areas, national parks and other formal or informal reserves. Forestry is one of the four main industries in Tasmania, with an annual turnover of $1.4 to $1.6 billion. Despite the recent increases in eucalypt plantation area, total production in Tasmania (by volume) is dominated by native forests (64%), then softwood
(18%), and eucalypt plantation production (17%). Forestry Tasmania has statutory responsibility for the management of 1.5 million ha of public forest land, comprising both forest reserves (conservation) and state forest (wood production). Privately owned forests make up about 30% of the total forested area. As background to the current round table between industry, the unions and conservationists to end the conflict over native forests in Tasmania, it is timely to return to Labor leader Mark Latham’s promise to protect large parts of Tasmania’s forests during the 2004 election. This sparked an angry campaign by the CFMEU against the proposal, which is credited with losing Labor the seats of Braddon and Bass at that election. These extracts from Jacqueline Kent’s book, The Making of Julia Gillard [Penguin Group 2009], start with comments from Gillard: “It was obvious to me that he [Mark Latham] was going down the next day to announce this big bad policy, and .. my political instincts were saying to me that this was going to be a fiasco. This would cost us seats in Tasmania, it might well cost us seats in the mainland, it’s bad policy, stupid policy. “It was like watching a child tottering towards a fire. A sense of being completely immobilised, nothing I could do”. In Hobart, Mark Latham vowed to end logging in most of Tasmania’s old-growth forests and to spend $800 million on a job-saving package for timber Cont Page 17
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workers. The idea was to put a moratorium of 10 months on new logging in old-growth forests outside existing plans while an expert panel looked at the scientific and conservation arguments for locking up 240,000 ha of disputed forests of high conservation value, and examined the wilderness and heritage worth of eight different bioregions. Loggers of old-grown forests would find jobs in plantation timber logging and the craft industry. There would be no net loss of jobs, but many workers would be retrained and reskilled. Almost immediately, 500 Tasmanian timber workers declared Latham unfit to lead the country and accused him of throwing workers on the scrapheap. Scott McLean, the state secretary of the CFMEU, said his members felt betrayed and disappointed and the chief executive of the Forest Industries Association of Tasmania accused Labor of ratting on workers and the industry. It was therefore a simple matter for John Howard to declare the policy a sell-out of Tasmanian workers – not a forest policy
O’Connor immediately came under fire from the media. How could an allegedly left-wing union support John Howard? But he remained firm, saying that Howard’s policy offered a better deal and pointing out that the trees would that would be locked up, according to the Prime Minister, were probably inaccessible or not needed for the industry.
Rearguard action .. CFMEU has constantly fought to preserve native forest logging in Tasmania.
but a grubby preference deal with the Greens. ‘I am not willing to pursue a desirable environmental outcome, as seen by the great majority of Australians, at the expense of the jobs of a limited number of Australians in isolated communities or indeed anywhere in Australia’ – John Howard Howard confronted a rally of 3000 timber workers in Launceston and promised to lock up 170,000 ha of Tasmanian forests without
Flashback election 2004 .. Mark Latham meets with Scott McLean from the Tasmanian branch of the CFMEU and Terry Edwards from the Forestry Industries Association of Tasmania.
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costing any jobs. He told the rally: “I said when I commenced the current campaign that the goals of ending old-growth logging and preserving jobs had to be compatible and had to be preserved. That I am not willing to pursue a desirable environmental outcome, as seen by the great majority of Australians, at the expense of the jobs of a limited number of Australians in isolated communities or indeed anywhere in Australia.” He was cheered and the CFMEU – including Michael O’Connor, who had remained a close friend of Julia Gillard – backed the Howard plan.
Mark Latham and John Howard cross paths during the 2004 election campaign.
He described the ALP’s forest policy as a job destroyer. And, yes, he did have a left-wing point of view – that “you do not sacrifice blue-collar jobs to appease the middle class of this country”. Gillard, who might well have been incensed and disappointed that one of her staunchest former allies had chose not to support the Labor Party, was both pragmatic and loyal to her old friend when she spoke about the election a couple of years later. Whether the forest policy tipped the balance or not, the election result on Saturday 9 October 2004 was conclusive. The Liberals won 74 seats, the National Party 12, and Labor 60. The ALP total vote was 37.6%, making Latham the first Labor opposition leader for 80 years to fail to make a net gain in seats at his first election against the government. But the real next gain for the government was in the Senate, where the Coalition won 39 out of 76 seats. It became the first government to have a majority in the Senate since 1981. (Extracts from The Making of Julia Gillard, by Jacqueline Kent).
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NZ forest sector scores at ‘rugby ball’ promotion, festival launch in Sydney NEW Zealand’s forestry sector was showcased last week at the highest profile event yet to promote the 2011 Rugby World Cup – Tourism New Zealand’s giant World Cup Rugby Ball in Sydney. The event was also commemorated with the presentation of a unique carved rugby ball, Pu Manawa, to Australian officials for safekeeping until next year’s Festival of Forestry and Wood Processing in New Zealand. The ball will be returned to Rotorua next year and placed at the heart of a large wooden carving that will be the centrepiece of the festival. A forestry sector delegation joined other Bay of Plenty representatives from tourism, business and sporting sectors who travelled to Sydney to promote the Rugby World Cup and its associated events in the region. Destination Rotorua Economic Development general manager Grant Kilby says the build-up to next year’s Festival of Forestry and Wood Processing and Rugby World Cup went to a new high level in Sydney. Festival will cover every aspect of the NZ forestry and wood products sector, from plant to market “We had a fantastic audio visual presentation which showcased the very best that the Bay of Plenty has to offer – including tourism, sport and leisure, the natural environment, business and partnership opportunities – as well as the three pool games that Rotorua is hosting at the Rugby World Cup,” Mr Kilby said. “Branded ‘Countdown 365’, the AV presentation was supported by speeches from key dignitaries including David
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Promoting the New Zealand forestry festival and Bay of Plenty attractions in Sydney are, from left, Peter Chrisp, CEO, NZ Trade and Enterprise, Grant Kilby, general manager, Destination Rotorua, Terry Parsons, managing director, Key Knife South Pacific, and John Halkett, Australian Timber Importers Federation with Pu Manawu, the uniquely carved rugby ball which stays in Australia until the festival in September next year.
Kirk, RWC ambassador, deputy mayor Trevor Maxwell in his capacity as Kaupapa director for Tourism NZ, Peter Chrisp, the CEO of NZ Trade and Enterprise and Leon Grice, CEO of NZ2011. Once the formalities were over, the stage was set for our ambassadors to interact with guests, gleaning valuable knowledge of business opportunities on a transTasman level. The prestigious event was attended by a good crosssection of Australian business, tourism, forestry representatives and media, providing an important opportunity for the Bay of Plenty to engage with key Australian stakeholders. “Australia has been brought one step closer to the Bay of Plenty with the introduction of trans-Tasman flights direct from Sydney to Rotorua, Mr Kilby said. “This makes it even easier for them to come across and enjoy the Rugby World Cup, as well as the different events that will accompany it.” One of the key events for the Bay of Plenty will be the NZ Forestry and Wood Processing
Festival. As the traditional home of forestry in New Zealand, the Bay of Plenty is well positioned to leverage new opportunities and growth out of the Rugby World Cup. “Over more than 100 years the Australian and New Zealand forestry sectors have led the world in the quality of their wood, products, technology and expertise. That hasn’t changed, and with the growing demand for sustainable living solutions, our two countries stand to increase that lead
further in the years and decades to come,” Mr Kilby said. The festival will take place from September 5 to 9 in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty and across New Zealand. It includes a range of activities, conferences, exhibitions, displays and competitions leading up to the first Rugby World Cup games in the first week of September. A highlight will be the four-yearly Forest Industries 2011 Expo, with other events including the Kawerau Woodfest, the 2011 FITEC national training awards and an open day at Waiariki Institute of Technology’s School of Forestry. The festival will cover every aspect of the NZ forestry and wood products sector, from plant to market and everything from genetics and growing, to harvesting, processing, design, manufacturing, supply chain and the links to domestic and international markets. “The Rugby World Cup offers the single biggest opportunity for the forestry industry to showcase its expertise, technology and products, and to reach new markets and grow the sector. We must maximise this opportunity and the Sydney event was just the start,” Mr Kilby added.
‘More at home with wood’ in NZ AUSTRALASIA’S largest wood products company has embarked on a media campaign to highlight the advantages of timber framing for residential construction. Using the theme “we’re all more at home with wood”, CHH Woodproducts has launched a website [www. framingfacts.co.nz] dedicated to timber “framing facts” and has placed advertisements in New Zealand’s leading trade publications. Marketing manager Bill
Hayward says the objective of the campaign is to ensure that specifiers and builders are fully informed about the advantages of New Zealand grown timber framing and the potential shortfalls of other framing options introduced recently. “We want to set the record straight about some of the claims the steel frame people are making”, says Mr Hayward. “They have been very active in the media recently and it’s important that builders and specifiers know all the facts.”
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