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Illegal wood laws new cost burden?

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Rust gets hold on eucalypts - Page 12

‘Government must commit funds for implementation of legislation’ By JIM BOWDEN

Ban on illegal logs .. industry seeks cause of problem, not just the symptoms.

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LVL strength .. quakeproof events centre takes shape at Carterton.

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AN innovative new seismic system is being installed in a community centre under construction in Carterton, a small town in the Wellington region of New Zealand. It is only the second time worldwide that the system, invented in 2005 by University of Canterbury researchers, has been used. The $6 million Carterton Events Centre, the first civic building to be built in the town for more than 100 years, includes a 300seat main auditorium using the new ‘Pres Lam’ structural system. The timber system uses laminated veneer lumber manufactured by Juken New Zealand Ltd to form large shear walls which are post-tensioned to the ground using embedded high-strength steel rods, which have been tested to withstand earthquake loads. Dave Dekker, senior structural engineer with Opus Architecture, said the Pres Lam system allowed walls to rock back and forth in an earthquake, absorbing earthquake energy as they move. “It significantly reduces the amount of movement and damage to a building during

an earthquake, meaning fewer repairs for the building after a large quake, not to mention overall safety. “The design of the posttensioned rods causes the building to return to a vertical position, rather than to the angle the building happens to be at once the shaking stops.” The post-tensioned LVL system was developed as an alternative to effectively the same system constructed in concrete. The timber connection technique was also adapted from posttensioned pre-cast concrete systems. “We wanted to see how we could apply this technology to this project using LVL manufactured by Juken at its mill, just along the road from the new community centre, made from locally grown trees,” Mr Dekker said. “We discussed the idea with Juken and explored other ways we could use their LVL and plywood because of the local connection and high quality of the products.” The Pres Lam system can be used either in framing for multistorey buildings or in shear walls. Mr Dekker said shear Cont Page 13

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Regulations could add a new layer of compliance

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Transport which will undertake a public inquiry, with a view to introducing the Bill in parliament in the middle of this year. Mr Hansard said the industry supported actions to curb the importation of illegally sourced wood products but did not want to see Australian producers lobbed with any undue red tape or added costs when forestry in Australia was highly regulated. This centred around the WTO (World Trade Organisation) guidelines requiring local producers to meet any requirements put on imports. “The timber industry would be concerned that the regulations

ForestWorks performs a range of industry wide functions acting as the channel between industry, Government and the Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) system.

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under the legislation could add another layer of compliance, on top of the widely held thirdparty independent sustainability certification which is more than adequate in proving legality,” Mr Hansard said. “AFPA would like to see the cause of the problem and not just the symptoms addressed by improving the knowledge and capacity of forest managers overseas.”

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Forest products industry takes key role in govt carbon policies THE Australian forest, wood, pulp and paper products industry has an opportunity to provide input on the government’s climate policies as part of the Land Sector Working Group. The Australian Forest Products Association was named a member of the group by Climate Change Minister Greg Combet, Forestry Minister Senator Joe Ludwig, and the parliamentary secretary for climate change Mark Dreyfus AFPA will work with the group on key climate policies such as the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) and the proposed carbon price mechanism. Transitional chief executive of AFPA Allan Hansard said it

was important that the forest industry, as the only carbon positive sector of the economy, was part of the group. “Given the right policy environment the forest industry has the potential to make a significant contribution to Australia’s carbon balance sheet,” he said. “AFPA has been established to represent a variety of businesses – tree growers, harvest and haulage contractors, sawmillers, exporters and pulp and paper processors – so it is critical that we are involved in this debate.” AFPA representatives last week appeared before the Senate Environment and Communications Legislation

Allan Hansard .. forest industry can make significant contribution to carbon balance sheet.

Committee on the Carbon Farming Initiative Bill. Mr Hansard told the committee

that “given the proposed design of the CFI scheme, there remains significant impediments for the realistic uptake of the wider forest industry for carbon sequestration – particularly for commercial timber plantations.” “Without substantial amendment, the current Bill is a missed opportunity for recognising the full potential of the forest industry to provide cost-effective emissions abatement,” he said. The forest industry can make a major contribution to removing carbon from the atmosphere in ways such as storing carbon in Cont Page 13

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2: Melbourne Hoo-Hoo Club 217 VIP night. Contact: Garrie James (03) 8706 1252 or garrie@hoohoo. com.au 9-12: 42nd annual meeting International Research Group on Wood Protection. Queenstown, New Zealand. Venue: Moonlight Country, 15 minutes from Queenstown and 8 minutes from both Arrowtown and Queenstown Airport. Contacts: New Zealand – Jeanette Drysdale +64 9 299 9435. Australia – Jack Norton +61 7 3255 4420. 18: Cut the Cost + Lift the Load workshop. Aimed at CEOs, managing directors, business owners, managers, workplace health and safety staff. Stay abreast of current obligations and get ahead of imminent changes to workplace health and safety and workers compensation in the timber industry with an informationpacked breakfast and workshop. Venue: Broncos Leagues Club, Red Hill, Brisbane. 7:15 am registration; 7:30 am- 9.15 am breakfast; 9:45 am-2.30 pm workshop. Contact: Shannon Axman-Friend, Events Marketing, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland. Tel: +61 409 348 011. Web: www.cciq. com.au 20-22: Timber & Working with Wood Show. RNA showgrounds, Brisbane. Contact: (02) 9974 1393. Fax: (02) 9974 3426, Email: info@ eee.net.au 25: Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA) and New Zealand Institute of Forestry Conference (ANZIF 2011). Auckland NZ. Theme: ‘Pacific Forestry’. Visit www.anzifconference.co.nz

30-June 3: LIGNA Hannover Wood Fair.

JUNE 15-17: SawTECH 2011. Sawing technologies to improve mill performance. Brisbane. Visit www. fiea.com.nz 17-19: Timber & Working with Wood Show. The Entertainment Quarter, Sydney. Contact: (02) 9974 1393. Fax: (02) 9974 3426, Email: info@eee.net.au 26-28: Build NZ. ASB Show grounds, Auckland.

JULY 7: HIA Industry Outlook Luncheon, HIA Home Ideas Centre, 28 Collie Street, Fyshwick ACT. Contact (02) 6285 7300. 13-14: Carbon Forestry 2011. Key investment drivers and future business opportunities. Auckland, NZ. Visit www.fiea.com.nz 19-20: FTMA Australia National Conference, Newcastle. Join FTMA Australia members on Tuesday, July 29, and network over golf at the iNewcastle Golf Club and other activities. Wednesday, July 20,FTMA Australia AGM prior to conference commencing at 10am.

SEPTEMBER 5-7: NZ Forest Industries Expo 2011. Venue: Rotorua Energy Events Centre, Rotorua. Forest industry leaders and companies from across the world are booking their tickets to participate in the expo (FI2011) and make the most of the 2011 Rugby World Cup while they’re there. Exhibition sites have already been booked by a number of NZ and Australian companies, and inquiries being received from

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Canada, China, Vietnam and Austria. The expo will showcase the best that Rotorua, the wider Bay of Plenty region and the rest of New Zealand has to offer when it comes to forestry and wood products. Contact: Dell Bawden. Email: office@bawden.co.nz Website site: fi2010.co.nz

October 21-23: Timber & Working with Wood Show. Melbourne Showgrounds, Epsom Road, Ascot Vale. Contact: (02) 9974 1393. Fax: (02) 9974 3426, Email: info@eee. net.au 21-November 2: 5th International Woodfibre Resources and Trade Conference: Woodchips and Biomass for Global Markets. Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore. Presented by DANA Ltd, Pike & Co and Wood Resources International, followed by field trip to Cambodia on November 3, 4 and 5.The field trip is an optional extra to the conference registration fee and will be limited to 80 participants. Field trip participants will fly from Singapore to Sihanoukville with an overnight stay. Transfer next day to Siem Reap which will include a visit to world famous UNESCO heritage site Angkor Wat. Return Saturday morning. Who should attend? Plantation and other forest owners, plantation investment fund managers, existing-future biomass producers and users, existingfuture wood pellet producers and users, bankers and investment analysts, woodchip producers, wood fibre trading companies, woodchip end users.

Australia’s forest, wood, pulp and paper products industry now has a stronger voice in dealings with government, the community and in key negotiations on the industry’s future, as two peak associations have merged to form a single national association. The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has been formed through the merger of the Australian Plantations Products and Paper Industry Council (A3P) and the National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI). AFPA was established to cover all aspects of Australia’s forest industry: - Forest growing; - Harvest and haulage; - Sawmilling and other wood processing; - Pulp and paper processing; and - Forest product exporting. For more information on the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) or to enquire about membership , please call (02) 6285 3833.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Tax a ‘time bomb’ for Australia’s biofuels industry THE Gillard government’s chronic maladministration has strapped a ticking time bomb to Australia’s biofuels industry, set to detonate in just over two months. Looming large for ethanol and biodiesel producers is a new excise hike from zero to 38c a litre over five years from July 1 – a 7.6c a litre extra tax slug every year to 2015. “Unless the government can get its alternative fuels tax legislation through both houses of parliament by June 30, the 38c a litre excise over five annual instalments will be automatically triggered,” Leader of the Nationals Warren Truss said. “Compounding matters, the new tax whack will not apply to US imports, resulting in massively subsidised and cheaper ethanol and biodiesel flooding into Australia from the US and putting our producers out of business,” Mr Truss said. “The US ethanol industry receives $6 billion in direct government subsidies every year and biodiesel is subsidised to the tune of $1 a gallon. “If the Gillard government was serious about reducing greenhouse emissions it should be striving to ensure a viable, competitive biofuels sector in Australia – not kill it off. “Anthony Albanese, as the bumbling manager of government business, and his side-kick Bill Shorten, the minister responsible for this fiasco, should be raked over the coals for dropping the legislative ball so close to the deadline. Our biofuel producers should never be in this invidious position.” Mr Truss said the Bill was on the notice paper for the last sitting of parliament, but was pulled at the last moment apparently

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Warren Truss .. government ‘killing off’ biofuels sector.

because the government could not agree on what it should contain. The government had never cared about alternative fuels and had fallen asleep at the wheel. “In any event, between now and June 30, the Senate will sit for just 10 days, and will have to deal with dozens of bills on its notice paper, as well as all the Budget bills. That’s cutting it awfully close,” Mr Truss said. Meanwhile, to support President Obama’s goal of reducing America’s oil imports by one-third by 2025, the US Departments of Agriculture and Energy will provide up to $US30 million over three to four years to support research and development in advanced biofuels, bioenergy and highvalue biobased products. The US government says there is enough biomass potential from forest and agricultural land to displace more than 30% of the country’s petroleum consumption. Forest biomass can be converted to other biofuels such as methane, ethanol, methanol, diesel or converted directly into electricity or heat. Direct heat generation from biomass is around 90% efficient.

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The legislation has to talk about illegal logging – and trade: EIA From Page 3

Halkett said ATIF supported key elements of the draft legislation, but it ran the risk of making timber products less competitive against other building products that were less environmentally friendly. “The Bill and supporting memorandum are silent about the cost impacts of the measures contained in the legislation on timber products, both imported and domestically produced,” Mr Halkett said. “While the ongoing operational costs associated with the Bill could be borne by the industry, the considerable set-up costs and initial implementation costs must be met by the government. “The government must commit funding to supporting set-up costs related to the requirements and obligations of timber industry certifiers prescribed in the Bill.”

Republic saw its exports to Australia decline. Overall, Europe accounted for half of Australia’s softwood imports in the final quarter of 2010 and this trend is expected to continue throughout this year due to big building projects in areas such as Queensland. Meanwhile, Andrea Johnson of the Washington, DC-based Environmental Investigation Agency said in a Sydney interview that the Australian government’s commitment on illegal wood imports sent

Andrea Johnson .. serious flaws in draft legislation

a great signal, but the law as currently drafted had some serious flaws. She said primarily, illegal logging was defined very narrowly. The law targeted harvesting but did not take in other areas of the supply chain – transport, processing and export where criminality and corruption could occur. “in order to get at the root of this problem, the law has to talk about illegal logging – and Cont Page 14

Historic agreement to curb stolen timber, Page 14 Mr Halkett noted that imported timber products were growing in significance and would be central to the performance of the Australian building and construction industries into the future. “This reality will include keeping housing affordability under check and supporting thousands of building and construction industry jobs,” he said. A recent URS timber market survey suggests the rising value of the Australian dollar has led to a lot of building firms looking towards Europe for their wood. According to the report, Estonia was one of the main beneficiaries of this, along with Sweden and Finland, although Lithuania and the Czech

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Itreat TIMBER FEATURE

Treating the untreatable New technologies revolutionise wood protection BRAVE new technology at itreat Timbers Pty Ltd at Narangba, north of Brisbane, has revolutionised methods of wood preservation using seven different compounds and three purpose-built pressure cylinders bringing an ability to treat wood that previously was considered untreatable. itreat Timber opened in March 2009 as a CCA-only treatment plant, but now provides a range of treatments – CCA, H3 and H4 for pine as well as H4 and H5 hardwood; H2F Blue for conifers; H2 Red Tru-Core for KD timbers, similar to LOSP; and H3 Vacsol Azure.

NZ-based Independent Verification Services will undertake a comprehensive third party audit program for all on-site treatment activities at itreat Timber – a ‘first’ for the industry in Australia. The landmark audit program was announced recently at a gathering of more than 70 representatives of industry associations, timber merchants and preservative suppliers by itreat TIMBER Pty Ltd directors Gerry Gardiner, Bill McCarthy and Wayne Donald. Low cost .. high output: the CCA plant at itreat Timbers.

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The custom-treatment company has engaged three individual suppliers – TimTech Chemicals, Kop-Coat NZ and Arch Wood Protection. The company becomes the first licensed timber treatment plant for Kop-Coat in Australia and only the second in the world using a pressure plant for this new technology Another ‘first’ is the use of the new Arch Vacsol Azure product, an alternative for traditional flammable solvents with only 10% of the VOC emissions of flammable solvents. Cont Page 9

The Tru-Core® Process This will set the benchmark for timber treatment in the future. In simple terms, Kop-Coat has developed a process that can fully penetrate most timber, both sapwood and heartwood, and can also fully penetrate most engineered wood products using water soluble chemical technology that does not require re-drying and does not damage the properties of the wood products. Forget everything that you knew about treating timber – this is new technology. What has traditionally been considered untreatable, can, in every case so far, be easily treated to the standard and beyond. 22 Neon Street, Narangba 4504 Queensland Tel: +61 3204 0444 Fax: 3203 3797 Email: bill@itreat.net.au

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Itreat TIMBER FEATURE

The low-cost, high-output preservation process has exceeded all expectations the Narangba site. TimTech Australia sales manager Ian Clarke said the new technology allowed for extremely rapid filling and emptying as well as a system which gave total timber coverage in seconds.

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Vacsol Azure is a light organic solvent preservative (LOSP) specifically formulated for the treatment of timber to AS 1604.1 H3 hazard level (external above ground) providing protection against fungal decay and attack from borer and termites. The low-cost, high-output factor in itreat’s timber preservation process has exceeded all expectations following commissioning of the first True Blue plant perfected for H2F framing treatment. The new plant, averaging 2.5-3 cub m per charge, was working well in a two-shift tandem with a CCA plant at

Trials and subsequent test results carried out in multiple laboratories in three countries confirm that not only are they meeting industry standards, they are exceeding them Hans Ward, Kop-Coat vice-president and general manger (protection products), Pennsylvania, USA, and Gerry Gardiner, director, itreat TIMBER Pty Ltd.

“A typical treatment cycle is less than 10 minutes,” he said. Cont Page 10

Well done, itreat TIMBER .. you have our congratulations and support!

TimTech Chemicals! The locally owned company that brought competition back into the Australasian market is 10 years old. A big thank you to the Australasian timber industry for your support over the last 10 years! TimTech Chemicals supply wood protection products, plant and equipment and technical services to many of the leading timber companies in Australasia and Pacific Islands. Thanks to our loyal customers, our great team and innovative technology TimTech is still growing.

TimTech is 10 years old, better and stronger, with patented technology, top people and excellent service. TimTech.... Still putting Values and Value into timber protection on both sides of the Tasman.

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Itreat TIMBER FEATURE

Plant uses most advanced mechanical, process design technology in Australia From Page 9

“The system has a number of major advantages over traditional bifenthrin spray systems, including a highly competitive treatment cost per cubic metre,” he said.

The Tru-Core protection system is a chemicallybased process for rapidly delivering globally accepted wood preservatives and insecticides deep into the core of wood substrates

itreat TIMBER director Bill McCarthy (centre) welcomes Ian Clarke, sales manger, TimTech Chemicals, and Tim Evans, director, Coast to Coast Pacific, Caboolture, to the IVS audit program launch.

TimTech Chemicals, a privately owned New Zealand company formed in 2001, holds the exclusive licence for the patented UniPlant Rapid Treatment process. The first of these plants in the world is installed at Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts, Kawerau, NZ. The itreat plant with three stations – purpose built by Craig Martin of CT Engineering New Zealand – uses the most advanced mechanical, process design and PLC program technology in Australia. Gerry Gardiner says the TruCore infusion process and patented preservative system

from Kop-Coat will set the bench mark for timber treatment in the future. The red coloration in Tru-Core is a tracer of the preservative penetration using chemistry and various combinations of proven environmentally responsible fungicides and insecticides that comply with Australian and New Zealand standards. Kop-Coat holds numerous patents on these technologies. Trials and subsequent test results carried out in multiple laboratories in three countries confirm that not only are they meeting industry standards,

they are exceeding them. “With this technology come new possibilities. What has traditionally been considered as untreatable, can, and in every case so far, be quite easily treated to the standard and beyond,” Gerry Gardiner said. The Tru-Core protection system is a chemically-based process for rapidly delivering globally accepted wood preservatives and insecticides deep into the core of wood substrates without requiring high pressure or vacuum treating equipment for volatile organic solvents

such as mineral spirits. Unlike conventional treating methods, the process uses a minimal amount of water to carry the preservatives, thus eliminating the need for redrying after treatment, which is costly and consumes energy. The Tru-Core treatment is applied to the surface of the wood by dip or in-line spray systems. It can also be used to pressure-treat wood. Full penetration of the preservatives is typically achieved after a 1224 hour activation period, after which the wood can be put in service or undergo further processing steps such as painting. The Tru-Core process fully penetrates a number of wood species that are considered difficult to penetrate using conventional treatment methods The process is in commercial use in facilities in the US, Australia and New Zealand where it has largely replaced LOSP vacuum treatment which utilised large amounts of VOCemitting petroleum-based Cont Page 11

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Itreat TIMBER FEATURE

Process penetrates many species to the core – heartwood, sapwood or late wood From Page 10

solvents. The Tru-Core system was developed to address the need for a process which can readily penetrate wood species and composites which do not normally allow for treatment by conventional methods. Tru-Core is a treating system rather than a specific preservative product; it can carry a wide variety of fungicides and/or insecticides into the substrate. Conventional treatment methods, on the other hand, are usually specific to a given preservative or preservative combination. The process can penetrate many wood species to the core whether the wood consists of heartwood, sapwood or late wood or whether the wood is

Treating conifers .. the H2F Blue plant at itreat Timbers.

treated green or is kiln-dried before treatment. Pressure and vacuum treatments cannot usually be used on wood unless it is pre-dried and they do not typically penetrate the

heartwood portion of many species. The Tru-Core process fully penetrates a number of wood species that are considered difficult to penetrate (refractory)

using conventional treatment methods. These include Douglas fir and spruce. Work in New Zealand has also demonstrated that Tru-Core treatment can often penetrate glue lines in laminated veneer lumber and plywood without damaging the integrity of the glue bonds. In New Zealand, the process has captured market share from LOSP treatment of framing lumber and weatherboard. Since LOSP treatment involves the use of petroleum-based solvents, it is more costly and less ‘green’ than the Tru-Core process. The LOSP solvents used in New Zealand are ‘white spirits’, similar to minerals spirits used in the US, but with higher levels of VOCs.

Showing your ‘Tru’ colours .. congratulations Gerry, Bill, Wayne and the itreat Timber team

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‘Eucalypt rust’ a threat to state’s hardwood estate

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Eucalyptus rust .. it’s here to stay. By JIM BOWDEN

TREE scientists in Queensland have begun wide-scale screening of plantation stock amid fears that the spread of an aggressive strain of ‘eucalypt rust’ could stunt the state’s hardwood industry. The strain of South American myrtle, or possibly guava (Puccinia psidii) rust, which has devastated hardwood plantations in Brazil, was detected in southeast Queensland in December. A fungal disease was first detected on the NSW central coast in late April last year. It has now spread to numerous locations in Queensland and New South Wales, ranging from commercial plant nurseries, public amenities and large areas of bushland. This reflects the difficulties of managing this type of pathogen, despite concerted efforts directed at suppression and eradication. Myrtle rust belongs to a group of fungi known as the ‘guava rust complex’. It can affect plants belonging to the family myrtaceae, which includes many Australian native species, including eucalyptus.

The rust has infected about 50 different tree species in Queensland from the NSW border to the tropics in bushland, some native forest areas and in Lamington national park. Although it has not been detected in eucalypt species in Queensland, it has invaded stands of blue gum (Eucalyptus deanei), blackbutt (E. pilularis) and river peppermint gum (E. elata) in New South Wales. “Whether it’s myrtle or guava rust, it could technically be named eucalypt rust,” the managing director of AgriScience Queensland John Chapman said. “We are very concerned about the productivity side of our hardwoods, that the rust might get into the hardwood plantation industry. “We expect that the rust could also hit our Corymbia hybrids so we are now vigorously testing our improved timber species, either seed derived or cutting derived, and screening more than 120 Corymbia clones. “But we’re never going to get rid of it.” Mr Chapman said the Cont Page 13

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National funding plea to fight rust From Page 12

screenings would be directed at finding and developing tolerant species of eucalypts rather than expecting complete resistance to the rust. “We have yet to determine just how aggressive or mild the rust strain is. I remember when papaya ringspot virus wiped out most of the papaya industry in Hawaii. When it hit Australia we thought it would be the end of the industry here. But it was a milder version and had little effect,” Mr Chapman said. “With the eucalypt rust it’s a case of watch this space.” Timber Queensland chief executive Rod McInnes said he welcomed the gravity Forestry Minister Tim Mulherin has

placed on the issue. Mr Mulherin asked his interstate counterparts to support national funding arrangements to tackle the spread of myrtle rust at a meeting of the Primary Industries Ministerial Council in Brisbane. “Research and development is required to systematically screen the hardwood species currently in the ground to identify the potential risk to the existing hardwood plantation estate,” Mr McInnes said. “In addition, screening of the species contained in the hardwood breeding program is required to ensure that myrtle rust resistant material is available to the industry for future plantings.”

LVL: benefits over steel From Page 2

walls were more suited to the large open spaces such as in the single-storey Carterton auditorium where spans across the building were too large for framing. “The framing system can be used in office and residential buildings which do not require large, open interior spaces.” Juken’s assistant mill manager at Masterton Paul Jordan said the company had worked closely with Opus to supply all the LVL and plywood for the project. “Using local products, knowledge and skills to apply

this new use for LVL in the community centre has been a great opportunity. We look forward to seeing more buildings like this in New Zealand and around the world.” The LVL system has multiple benefits over structural steel and concrete; it not only holds up and springs back into place in an earthquake, but is produced using a renewable resource. The system also has strong sustainability credentials. Mr Jordan said the ‘cradle to grave’ carbon footprint for NZproduced untreated LVL, under standard NZ usage, resulted in net storage of 266 kg CO2-e per cubic metre.

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Historic agreement massive blow to Indonesia’s illegal timber trade AFTER four years of negotiations, the EU and Indonesia last week finalised an historic new timber trade agreement to stem the flow of illegal timber to European markets. The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) is the first ever in Asia and will govern a trade estimated to be worth about $US1 billion a year. Once the VPA is operational, Indonesia will only permit the export of timber licensed from a national timber legality assurance system and, for their part, EU customs authorities will prevent any unlicensed Indonesian products from entering the EU. The VPA is a massive blow to the timber barons who have long been ransacking Indonesia’s

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In future, the Indonesian Government wants all timber production to be subjected to a national timber legality assurance system known as the Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu (SVLK), which means independent auditing by ISOaccredited auditors against a multi-stakeholder legality standard. The Indonesian civil society is now formally part of the independent monitoring system of Indonesia’s new law. The European Parliament voted overwhelming last year to pass legislation banning the import and sale of illegal timber with legislation to come into effect next year. The regulations are expected to be rubber stamped by the European Council of member states. The new rules will close a loophole that has made it possible for European firms to import and sell timber that has been logged illegally in countries such as Brazil and Indonesia.

Those in the supply chain have to take responsibility From Page 7

trade,” Ms Johnston said. “The legislation is also narrowly focused at the Australian end with heavy penalties for importing illegally harvested timber. “But importers aren’t the only problem; all those in the supply chain have to take responsibility, from the importers, to the brokers to the final retailers. “Australia’s draft law, unlike America’s Lacey Act, has no requirement for any declaration about what species of trees (producing the wood) are being imported or where they come

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