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Study explodes Greens policies

This Issue • David Pollard’s challenging role as AFPA chief • Opportunities for EWPs as Japan rebuilds after earthquake

Science group lauds contribution of forests, wood in reducing emissions

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INDUSTRY NEWS

David Pollard has challenging role to build new industry organisation AFPA announces appointment of inaugural CEO

The Victorian Association of Forest Industries, representing the interests of the Victorian timber Industry

Victorian Association of Forest Industries Level 2, 2 Market Street Melbourne 3000 Tel: +61 3 9611 9000 Fax: +61 3 9611 9011 Email: info@vafi.org.au Web: www.vafi.org.au

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THE appointment of Dr David Pollard as inaugural chief executive of the Australian Forest Products Association brings a strong background in finance and public policy to the new peak industry organisation.

Dr Pollard, who has a PhD and masters in economics from Sydney University, has held a number of ‘inaugural’ executive roles in his career.

He was appointed first chief executive of VicForests when the state-owned business was launched in 2004 and was inaugural chief executive of the Australian Film Finance Corporation (1988-90).

This was followed by five years as chief executive and Commissioner of State Revenue, and a stint as an assistant commissioner on the Industry Commission. He has also written books on public policy.

From 1990 until 1997, he was with the Australian Securities Commission and was the director of information. He was awarded the Commonwealth Centennial Medal for services to public sector management in 2002.

Announcing the appointment, AFPA chair Linda Sewell said the association had a CEO who could build the organisation and enable it to lead the newly integrated forest products industry as it responded to its changing challenges and opportunities.

“These challenges include encouraging downstream processing of our natural forests, investment in plantation forestry, ensuring the industry plays its full role in the emerging carbon economy and strengthening access for wood-based products in the Australian marketplace,” Ms Sewell said.

David Pollard .. challenging role as chief executive of AFPA.

“Dr Pollard brings with him a wide range of capabilities and has considerable experience in both industry and government.

This unique combination of skills and experience will assist us in the development of an

industry association capable of meeting the challenges ahead.” she said.

Ms Sewell paid tribute to the services of Allan Hansard, transitional chief executive of AFPA (and previous CEO of NAFI), who has led the organisation during its transition phase, and to Richard Stanton (CEO of A3P).

“Allan and Richard have both campaigned tirelessly on behalf of the industry, working alongside the collective boards of directors as the amalgamation took shape over the past 12 months,” Ms Sewell said.

AFPA was established through the merger of the Australian Cont Page 4

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Potential to decrease carbon emissions depends on better forest management From Page 1

says the report completed by six scientists at CORRIM, based at the University of Washington.

CORRIM, made up of 15 research institutions, was formed to update and expand a 1976 landmark study by the National Academy of Science.

The CORRIM study, backed by 20 member universities, including Yale University, the third-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1701, also humiliates the Australian government’s carbon policy that ignores the forest industry’s contribution to reducing emissions.

As part of its Clean Energy Future plan to meet the emissions target for 2020, the federal government has indicated Australia will import around 100 million tonnes of carbon credits from overseas countries. This means 62% of the emissions reduction driven by the Australian carbon price will occur in other countries.

The Australian Forest Products Association says importing these carbon credits from overseas rather than rewarding Australian action to reduce emissions, the government has ignored the contribution of Australia’s sustainable and renewable forest industry.

Treasury documents show that to meet the government’s emission reduction targets, the abatement task is 159 Mt CO2-e in 2020 and 94 Mt CO2-e will be achieved by importing credits.

“The local industry could provide a significant amount of this requirement from Australia’s home-grown carbon credits and in doing so, create jobs and economic wealth for Australians,” AFPA says.

“The trees that industry sustainably manages are carbon stores and increasing the area of forest will increase the

The government has ignored the contribution of Australia’s sustainable and renewable forest industry.

overall carbon storage. Wood products from these forests are also carbon stores and have a lower emissions profile than competing products made from aluminium, steel, masonary, concrete and plastic.”

carbon impact, says the study, is that which would have resulted without using wood.

For example, wood studs can be replaced by steel studs, wood joists by steel I-beams, wood walls by concrete walls, wood floors by concrete slab floors and biofuel by fossil fuel.

Using the life cycle inventory data for comparing a steel floor joist to an engineered wood I-beam joist results in reducing the carbon footprint by almost 10 tonnes CO2 for every tonne of wood used.

The same analysis found that substituting a lumber stud for a steel stud only reduces the carbon footprint by 2 tonnes CO2 for every tonne of wood used. In both cases, a tonne of wood used stores about 0.4 tonnes of carbon, equivalent to

1.5 tonnes CO2, over the life of the product, net of processing emissions.

A wood-floor replacement for a concrete slab floor reduces the carbon footprint by about 3.5 tonnes CO2 for every tonne of wood used.

Using the life cycle analysis to examine all pools, including substitution, the CORRIM scientists demonstrated that using wood to displace fossilintensive products such as steel and concrete produces a sustainable reduction in atmospheric carbon, year after year, unlike the alternative when considering carbon growth in an unharvested forest.

“The potential to decrease carbon emissions depends upon both better forest Cont Page 7

‘The total storage from a sustainably managed forest producing wood products will exceed the carbon accumulation in an unmanaged forest’ The CORRIM study asserts that the total storage from a sustainably managed forest producing wood products will exceed the carbon accumulation in an unmanaged forest, given assumptions of equal soil carbon and rates of decomposition of dead material.

The study says unmanaged forests are susceptible to disturbances including insect and disease outbreaks and generate a much greater carbon debt if they are combusted during a wildfire, rather than a managed forest with lower carbon storage and much less dead and dying fuel wood.

The most obvious missing

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wood preservation

Plywood on Sydney site legal: AWP

Sarawak timber carries ITTO-approved certification

By JIM BOWDEN

CLAIMS by Greenpeace that imported plywood formwork used on a Sydney green fivestar building development is from illegally-harvested forests have been rejected by the Australian distributor which has backed its stand with certification documentation that complies with International Tropical Timber Organisation guidelines for sustainable management of natural tropical forests.

“The issue is about legality, and we can prove the wood is

certified absolutely legal from sustainable forests through a chain of custody process,” said David Richards, managing director of Australian Wood Panels, which is part of the Samling Global Ltd group based in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Greenpeace activists last week stormed the building site – No. 1 Central Park on Broadway – in their on-going battle to plug what they claim are illegal logging activities in Malaysia.

The incident has embarrassed developer Frasers Property and construction company Watpac

who are required to comply with the Green Building Council of Australia’s requirement of five green star certification. Also, the wood is not certified by the FSC or PEFC, which verifies whether a logging operation can be regarded as sustainable by the organisations.

“We have never claimed this product was FSC or PEFC

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certified and it was not branded as such. But it is legal and complies with ITTO standards,” Mr Richards said.

“In fact, we were unaware the plywood was being used on the Sydney building site. It was supplied by one of our formwork customers. And nobody in the

Plantations Products and Paper Industry Council (A3P) and the National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI).

The merger was announced during the unveiling of a new ‘single voice’ logo at an industry dinner in Canberra on World Forestry Day March 21.

The AFPA logo was presented

by Linda Sewell, chair of A3P and transitional chair of the new association, and Greg McCormack, chairman of NAFI. NAFI was formed in 1985 to arrest a declining per capita consumption of timber and timber products, and A3P was formed in 2003 with members now employing more than 13,500 people in plantations, sawmills and paper manufacturing plants.

A3P members create and sell more than $4 billion of products, produce more than 12 million cub m of logs, 3 million cub m of sawn timber and more than 2 million tonnes of paper.

A3P came about with the merger in August 2003 of the Australian Paper Industry Council (APIC) and the Plantation Timber Association of Australia (PTAA).

The new body appointed Nick

Roberts, then Weyerhaeuser Australia managing director, as its inaugural chairman.

Mr Roberts is currently chief executive of ForestsNSW. Former APIC executive director Belinda Robinson was appointed inaugural CEO of A3P. As chief executive of VicForests, David Pollard presides over Victoria’s $1.8 billion native hardwood timber industry. On his appointment in May 2004, he said timber in Victoria was big business, and socially and economically vital in some regional areas.

However, he said not much was known about the real cost of running the industry. “The task is to make the economics of the process transparent, and to try and build a rational market where none has existed before,” he said.

Dr Pollard said a key task was to build a more rational pricing mechanism for timber through market forces. Some timber would rise in price and other timber prices were likely to fall.

“Our task is to try and encourage greater technical sophistication in technology to ensure lower grade logs are value-added.”

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events

WHAT’S ON? AUGUST 16: Australian Timber Importers Federation board meeting and AGM. Park Royal Melbourne Airport Hotel. Includes presentation

by Ric Sinclair, managing director, Forest and Wood Productrs Australia - the new Wood Solutions website. Lunch and FWPA presentation at 1 pm. AGM commences at 2 pm. Inquiries to John Halkett (02) 9356 3826 or john.halkett@bigpond.com 28-27: Vareity Club Bush Bash, Queensland. Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Club 218 has entered the event to raise funds for children’s charities.

Contact: Alan Jones (07) 3010 1823.

SEPTEMBER 2: Women of Timber High Tea. Curvee Lounge, The Sofitel, Brisbane. The aim of the event is to gather as many women of industry, representing a variety of roles and organisational sectors, to get together and share their knowledge, experience and ideas.

Ticket price $55 p.p. (inc. gst).

RSVP August 26. Tel: (07) 3254 3166. Email: karen@tabma.com.au 5, 6, 8: WoodSolutions 2011.

Bringing together leading international and Australasian exponents of timber design.

Adelaide (Monday September 5), Intercontinental Adelaide, North Terrace. Sydney (Tuesday, September 6), Sydney Marriott Hotel, College Street. Melbourne (Thursday, September 8), The Windsor Hotel, Spring Street. Visit www.woodsolutions2011.com.au

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 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 6-7: BNZ Forest Industries Tech Clinics 2011. Rotorua, NZ www. forestevents.co.nz 7: BNZ Forest Industries 2011 Conference: Innovative products, designs and new developments for timber building. Rotorua, NZ. www.forestevents.co.nz 13: Women in Forests meeting and carbon pricing and carbon initiatives briefing – Hyatt Hotel , Canberra. Visit: www.forestworks. com.au/conference Tel: 1800 177 001 14-15: ForestWorks Annual Industry Development Conference: Productivity and Competitiveness. Hyatt Hotel, Canberra. Evening: Industry liaison dinner at Parliament House.

Visit: www.forestworks.com.au/ conference Tel: 1800 177 001.

The conference will provide an in-depth exploration of the

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many impacts and opportunities facing the industry in 2011 and beyond. The conference has been specifically scheduled to coincide with parliamentary sitting week, providing a great chance for industry players, union representatives, policy makers and MPs to gather, network and share ideas. Tel: (03) 9321 3500. www. forestworks.com.au/conference

October 16-19: SilviLaser 2011. University of Tasmania, Hobart. Visit www. silvilaser2011.com 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 28: Timber Industry Dinner, incorporating the TABMA awards. Doltone House, Darling Island Wharf, Sydney. Supported supported by TDA NSW, the Furnishing Industry Association of Australia, the NSW Forest Products Association, the Timber Trade Industrial Association, WADIC, the Australian Timber Importers Federation, TABMA Australia, and WoodSolutions. Contacts: Sydney – (02) 9277 3100. Adelaide – 0407 102 244. Perth – 0414 908 465.

Brisbane – (07) 3254 3166. Hobart – 0407 102 244.

31-2 (Nov): 5th International Woodfibre Resources & Trade Conference. Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore.

Contact Pamela Richards on 61 3 5781 0069. Visit www. woodfibreconference.com

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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EVENTS

Remote sensing .. the most exciting technology being developed and applied in forest management

Remote sensing comes into focus at ForestTECH WITHOUT doubt, the most exciting technology being developed and applied in forest management at the moment is remote sensing.

Two years ago when ForestTECH, the Australasian forest technology series was run, results from some very early trials with LiDAR were discussed.

Organisations such as Forestry Tasmania and Forests NSW were at the forefront of these first trials, evaluating the technical, operational and financial feasibility of using LiDAR across a range of forest management activities.

Trials clearly demonstrated that LiDAR as able to be integrated into a forestry company’s inventory and planning systems. Significant savings could be made over traditional systems, particularly where terrain and drainage was not well understood (for harvesting and road construction planning) and where forest inventory costs were high.

The quality of the data captured over traditional methods was also vastly superior and technical issues around

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processing and handling large volumes of data had successfully been overcome.

A lot has happened since that first technology update two years ago. More operational trials have been rolled out.

LiDAR is now firmly incorporated into the forest inventory and management systems of a number of larger Australian companies including Forestry Tasmania, Forests NSW and ForestrySA. Large-scale trials are being undertaken by companies such as VicForests, the Forest Products Commission and Hancock Victorian Plantations.

In New Zealand, a number of LiDAR trials are under way in three forests on the central North Island.

In two years, work on stand and single tree attributes, which are fundamental to all softwood inventory systems from data captured by LiDAR and multispectral cameras, have proved to be accurate.

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TIMBER PRESERVATION

Preserving memories a‘treat’ at Brisbane lunch TIM Evans, chairman of Timber Queensland’s Timber Treaters Group and Jim Bowden of T&F enews (both standing left) dropped in for a chat with four veterans of the timber preservation industry at a Brisbane café last week to recall old times.

West Hill (seated centre) left the New Zealand Forest Service in 1960 to join Hickson Timber Impregnation NZ Co Ltd, subsequently working with Koppers-Hickson in New Zealand and Australia and then TimTech Chemicals when it opened Australian operations in 2001.

Robin Dowding (standing right) was marketing Koppers treated logs for Creative Timbers in 1981 before he joined Koppers Timber Preservation as regional manager, Queensland and Northern Territory. He then moved to Perma-Log at Narangba and stayed as

marketing manager after the takeover by CSR Softwoods. He then joined Koppers-Hickson as marketing manager in Sydney, then became development manger of Koppers Timber (a customer of Koppers-Hickson) promoting treated pine framing through the 1990s.

North Queenslanders John and Desley Robertson, formerly of Healy Creek Nursery at Townsville, were among the first to sell treated pine in Queensland and were among the original stockists of Koppers logs in 1981.

Although now retired – West in Harvey Bay, Robin in Brisbane, and Robert and Desley in their

beloved Townsville – they all keep abreast of industry developments through the online pages of T&F enews.

Robin Dowding and Jim Bowden as members of the Lateral Thinkers Club, hope to be in Sydney in late August for a club meeting at the Blue Gum

Hotel at Waitara in Sydney’s Upper North Shore for a gathering of personalities and executives, past and president, of the timber preservation industry in Australia and New Zealand.

Managed forests reduce emissions From Page 3

management as well as better selection on how we use wood,” says research scientist Dr Elaine O’Neil, CORRIM’s executive director.

Using the example of engineered wood I-joists substituting for steel floor joists, the carbon mitigation trend is increased 130% to 9.7 tonnes of carbon per hectare a year (tC/h/y).

While afforestation provides a one-time increase in forest carbon, life cycle analysis of all processes, where wood displaces non-wood products, identifies many more opportunities to sustainably reduce emissions.

Life cycle research also demonstrates that the emissions from sustainably produced products or biomass for energy are offset by the forest carbon removed from the atmosphere.

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EMERGING TRENDS

Riddles to rebuilding: opportunities .. and challenges for EWPs in Japan

Short-term demand dominated by prefab relief housing WILL the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck northern Japan on March 11 provide long-term market opportunities for manufacturers of structural wood panels and other engineered wood products?

The answer is not as clear cut as might be expected, cautions Charlie Barnes, international market director of the APAEngineered Wood Association in America.

“Reconstruction will be a huge undertaking for many years, and that will generate substantial demand for wood products,” Mr Barnes notes. “But there are also obstacles to market entry, and manufacturers must know

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After the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, Japan will seek to rebuild its damaged plywood manufacturing capacity as quickly as possible.

The quake – among the top 10 most severe earthquakes ever recorded by seismographs – and the resulting tsunami wreaked unimaginable devastation to a large northern region of the island country. The death toll estimate exceeds 15,000, with more than 8500 people still missing as of June 1.

Estimates of recovery and reconstruction costs are expected to exceed $US309 billion, making this the world’s most expensive natural disaster and dwarfing the 1995 Kobe earthquake.

The likelihood of an increase in demand for imported wood products is suggested by several key factors. Among them: • More than 400,000 people lost their homes and perhaps as many as 150,000 buildings

were destroyed, according to Wood Resources International, the US-based forest industry consulting firm.

• Japan, even before the disaster, was one of the largest importers of wood products in the world. The country imported wood materials (both raw material and finished wood products) valued at more than $US10 billion in 2010 – 20% more than in 2009.

• The earthquake and tsunami destroyed or severely damaged several Japanese plywood plants that together accounted for about 35% to 40% of the country’s annual softwood plywood production, and about 10 to 15% of the country’s total softwood and hardwood plywood supply (both domestically produced and imported).

The temporary but significant loss of a substantial portion of domestic plywood production capacity, coupled with the huge volume of structural wood panels that will be required for rebuilding, will definitely have an impact on structural wood panel demand, says Mr Barnes. But that demand will be moderated by several factors.

For example, the sheer magnitude of the cleanup effort and the challenges ahead in restoring power, transportation, port facility, and other infrastructure will stretch demand over a long period of time.

Short-term demand has been and likely will continue for some time to be dominated by prefabricated emergency relief housing, not primary wood products.

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Celebrate innovation and advances in forestry, wood products and design just before the international rugby starts on 9 September. Be part of the forestry and wood processing revolution. If you have anything to do with wood you and your company must be there.

Book your place and get more information, www.fi2011.co.nz The PF Olsen Forest Industries Expo 2011 will showcase the latest equipment, technology and systems from New Zealand and around the world, to an international audience. You can book to attend or register for a display site indoors or outdoors through www.fi2011.co.nz The BNZ Forest Industries Tech Clinics will feature 14 practical and independent clinics that will cover every facet of the forestry sector, from new tools for improving efficiencies in forest management through to the very latest in timber design, construction and building practices. For more information go to www.fi2011.co.nz.

The BNZ Forest Industries Conference on 7 September will focus on innovation and design in timber construction following the tragic earthquakes in Japan and Christchurch (2011), Haiti (2010), Chile (2010) and Italy (2009).

International speakers will cover recent major advances in design, technology and construction. For more information go to www.fi2011.co.nz

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events

People, capital and process adoption often more limiting than the technology From Page 6

Zealand forestry LiDAR trials is expected to be completed by mid to late 2011.

In addition to work on LiDAR, there have been significant advances in photogrammetric software. High-resolution DSM and DTM production is no longer the domain of LiDAR scanning; it can also be accomplished through photogrammetry and digital frame cameras.

Multi-ray photogrammetry appears to be achieving a significantly higher point density and is being trialled for the first time on a New Zealand forest estate.

A new generation of satellite imagery, only available since late 2010, is also being evaluated by forestry companies this year.

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Early indications are that some of the satellite imagery may be suitable for routine forestry applications such as quarterly harvest area measure-ups, storm damage assessment, disease mapping and forest establishment assessments, which to date have been carried out using aerial photography taken from small aircraft.

The new imagery can be ordered over the Internet and is available in almost realtime. RapidEye for example is a constellation of five satellites capable of downloading over 4 million km² of high resolution, multi-spectral imagery every day.

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Other advancements include developments in satellite aperture based radar in conjunction with optical imagery, the use of LiDAR in conjunction with multi-spectral imagery and ground based sampling and using unmanned aerial vehicles (remotely controlled aircraft) for forest mapping. All of this technology is being trialled this year.

ForestTECH 2009 set the scene and whet the appetite for technical foresters in both Australia and New Zealand.

Much of the technology highlighted has been applied in extensive trials and in many instances has already been adopted and integrated into forest inventory and planning for a number of major forestry

companies in Australasia.

“Remote sensing is a critical component of ForestTECH 2011,” says FIEA director, Brent Apthorp.

“The objective is to get companies at the forefront of this new technology to discuss what the systems or tools are, how the technology has been adopted and what impact it’s had, financially and operationally, on the company’s operation.

“It’s apparent that in many instances people, capital and process adoption are often more limiting than the technology development itself.”

ForestTECH 2011 will run in Albury on December 1 and 2 and again in Rotorua on December 6 and 7.

Full details of the program can be viewed on the event website: www.foresttechevents.com

Resource security key to forest agreement in Tas THE Australian Forest Products Association has stated its position on the recently announced Intergovernmental Agreement on Tasmanian Forests, outlining the essential conditions for the forest industry to deliver a durable agreement.

As an original signatory to the ‘statement of principles’ document last year, AFPA (then known as NAFI) is seeking clarification on the relationship between the guaranteed longterm wood supply for industry and the reservation claim by the ENGOs. AFPA’s conditions for supporting the Intergovernmental Agreement include: • A guaranteed sustainable and compensable wood supply for industry, as outlined in the statement of principles.

• The operation of the Triabunna export facility on terms acceptable to industry, or, an acceptable alternative facility through funding assistance by both governments.

• Sovereign risk should not be increased through government intervention in commercial contracts. Full compensation must be provided where this occurs. On the other hand, no compensation or competitive advantage should be provided where companies have voluntarily surrendered wood allocations for commercial reasons.

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Parliament House, Canberra .. venue for ForestWorks annual industry development conference.

Industry conference unlocks opportunity for carbon economy THE commercial opportunities presented by the transition to a low-carbon economy will be front and centre when industry skills council ForestWorks hosts the annual industry development conference in Canberra in September.

The conference at the Hyatt Hotel and Parliament House from September 13 to 15 will feature a ‘who’s who’ of forestry, as the industry confronts a period of unprecedented change.

The event kicks off with a women’s forum and an industry briefing on carbon pricing on September 13.

ForestWorks chief executive Michael Hartman said the conference presented a great chance to exchange ideas and network.

“There’s a lot of talk about the challenges posed by the carbon tax, the high Australian dollar and international competition, and they are serious, but there’s also sufficient scope to look at future opportunities and positioning,” Mr Hartman said.

“It’s no secret that the forestry industry is undergoing significant structural change, but through cooperation, effective communication and the cross-fertilisation of ideas, we can emerge from the current

period on a prosperous and sustainable footing.

“It’s important for policy makers and politicians in Canberra to know that our industry can have a positive vision for the future and to take that message into Parliament House at the dinner function, where members of Parliament will be in attendance.”

Other topics for discussion at the conference will include: investment in resources, scale, employment (skill and labour shortages, immigration), monetising non-wood forest and tree values, carbon sequestration and energy, global market trends, and the effect of a carbon price on domestic timber product manufacturing and the broader industry.

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ADeLAiDe, tHursDAy 18 AuGust 2011 topic

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Surface checking in outdoor products (Solid Wood Initiative)

Marco Lausberg

Quantifying residual solvent levels in LOSP treated wood (Solid Wood Initiative)

Marco Lausberg

How to guarantee warp stable timber (Solid Wood Initiative)

Marco Lausberg

Best practice guidelines for drying, gluing, painting, sawdoctoring, etc (Solid Wood Initiative)

Marco Lausberg

Review of fertiliser use in Australian forestry

Barrie May

Handbook for effective and productive community engagement (CRC Forestry)

Melanie Dare

Predicting internal wood qualities with NIR (CRC Forestry)

Geoff Downes

Optimised truck scheduling – Fast Truck (CRC Forestry)

Mauricio Acuna

Onboard computer guide

Martin strandgard

Life cycle assessment of timber products (RMIT)

Andrew carre

Review and Identification of Suitable Insulation Solutions to Enhance Suspended Timber Floor Systems (The University of Adelaide)

terry Williamson

Essigella biocontrol program

richard Glatz

Venue: the Lakes resort Hotel 141 Brebner Drive West Lakes Adelaide, sA 5021 reGistrAtion: 8.30 am (coffee on arrival) start 9.00 am Finish 12.30 pm (followed by a light lunch)

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emerging trends

Huge demand for imported wood panels From Page 8

0.91 m x 1.82 m in keeping with the long-standing Japanese construction module and practices.

Panels also must be certified to the Japanese Agricultural Standard (JAS). Few North American mills currently produce to the 0.91 m x 1.82 m module and only four APA member OSB mills and one APA member plywood mill were JAS certified at the time of the earthquake, as were seven APA member glulam plants.

It can be expected that Japan will seek to rebuild its damaged plywood manufacturing capacity as quickly as possible.

North American panel producers have historically faced formidable competition from Asian suppliers, particularly Malaysia and Indonesia, which together accounted for about

77% of Japanese plywood imports last year.

While not expected to be a bonanza for the North American panel industry in general, Japanese post-earthquake supply and demand dynamics could represent opportunities for manufacturers already doing business there, or those willing and able to cultivate the market.

Japan moving quickly to rebuild its damaged plywood manufacturing capacity Japanese usage and imports of OSB are increasing, but are still small compared with plywood volumes, especially for floor and roof sheathing applications.

The country has no OSB manufacturing capability of its own and last year imported 240.6 million sq. ft. (3/8”) of the product. Of that volume, nearly

80% was supplied by Canadian companies, and the product could well play a growing part in the reconstruction effort as well as the overall new housing demand throughout Japan.

That prospect was recently enhanced by Japanese government recognition of higher OSB shear wall values, which will be of obvious importance in acceptance of the product in post-earthquake reconstruction efforts.

The ministerial approvals issued to APA in February were the result of more than 12 months of testing in both Japan and North America. The new values reflect a 60% increase in shear wall multiplier factors for postand-beam construction and a 20% increase for platform frame construction.

Glulam timber also has worked its way into the Japanese market, with the country last year importing 553,354 cub m.

That was down nearly a third from the record mark of 805,562 cub m in 2006, in response to the global economic downturn.

However, glulam imports in 2010 rose 21% from the previous year and almost 37% from 2008.

Mid- and long-term demand estimates for structural wood panels can be at least partially established by looking at the number of wooden housing units built in tsunami-impacted prefectures in 2010. That normal-year number – now 44,250 – yields a housing demand potential for the region of some 243 million sq. ft., based on average house size and historical panel utilisation rates.

It is also noteworthy that wooden house construction in Japan has gained market share since 2005 – rising from about 44% to nearly 57% last year.

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Mt GAMBier, FriDAy 19 AuGust 2011 topic

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Energy Management Tools (Solid Wood Initiative)

Marco Lausberg

Assessing cants to maximise outturn of structural timber (Solid Wood Initiative)

Marco Lausberg

Kiln drying: Dynamic kiln scheduling and reduction of post drying conditioning time (Solid Wood Initiative)

Marco Lausberg

Forest to mill RFID tracking applications (Solid Wood Initiative)

Marco Lausberg

Review of fertiliser use in Australian forestry

Barrie May

Maximising profit from nutrient management of mid-rotation radiata pine

Barrie May

Managing plantations to increase wood yields and water use efficiency

Don White

Handbook for effective and productive community engagement (CRC Forestry)

Melanie Dare

Predicting internal wood qualities with NIR (CRC Forestry)

Geoff Downes

Optimised truck scheduling – Fast Truck (CRC Forestry)

Mauricio Acuna

Onboard computer guide

Martin strandgard

Essigella biocontrol program

richard Glatz

Venue: the Barn – punt road (Also called Nelson Road or Glenelg River Road) reGistrAtion: 8.30 am (coffee on arrival) start 9.00 am Finish 12.30 pm (followed by a light lunch)

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‘We impose heavy penalties on illegal timber’: Malaysian minister in Sydney From Page 4

supply chain asked us about certification. It’s really a case of fit-for-purpose and although the product was sound and legal, it did not carry FSC or PEFC certification and we have not denied this.

“This is no shonky deal and the developers are satisfied with our explanation; it was their decision to use the product.”

Mr Richards said Samling products were sourced from forests endorsed under the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme.

“But although the Sarawak forests we are operating in are not FSC or PEFC certified, the company is going through the process of PEFC certification for these forests – and that’s happening,” Mr Richards said.

“Every single log we pull out of the forest has to be individually tagged and goes over a weigh bridge. It is then issued with a certificate of compliance on sustainability and legality by the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation.”

Mr Richards said while some AWP products came from associate companies within the Samling Group in Malaysia, AWP also received supplies from different regions worldwide.

“These products would inevitably have to comply with

The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Tan Sri Bernard Dompok with Canterbury Windows and Doors executive David Kohi and senior members of the Malaysian timber industry delegation during a visit to the manufacturing facilities in Melbourne. Full seminar report next issue of T&F enews.

Pictured visiting visiting the TMA Advisory Centre in Melbourne last week during a Malaysian Timber Council trade visit to Australia are Farzana Ismail, executive, trade promotion and marketing, MTC, John Bagley, Forestlands Consulting, Sydney, Tham Sing Khow, deputy CEO, MTC, Peter Roberts, executive drector, Timber Merchants Association (Vic) and Evelyn Ong, general manager, Ah Hai Industries, Malaysia.

all the relevant regulations governing the production of such products.”

Samling has operations in Malaysia, China, New Zealand,

Australia and Guyana.

Greenpeace timed their protests to coincide with a visit by Malaysia’s Minister for Plantation Industries Tan Sri

Bernard Dompok who is leading a trade delegation to Australia.

Speaking at a Sydney seminar, Minister Dompok said Malaysia took the issues of illegal logging and the trade in illegal timber very seriously.

“We impose heavy penalties on illegal logging,” he said.

“Our laws empower local police and the armed forces to carry out surveillance of forestry activities to help curb illegal logging and the encroachment of forest areas.”

Malaysia has a commitment to keep at least 50% of its total land area in natural forests and the present percentage is 55.3%.

The nation has also embarked on a forest plantation program to supplement the supply of raw materials to the timber industry and reduce the industry’s dependence on natural forests.

“About 25,000 ha of tree plantations will be established annually over a period of 15 years, to achieve a target of 375,000 ha,” Mr Dompok said.

“Let me assure you, the development of forest plantations will not be at the expense of natural forests as forest plantations will mainly be developed on idle lands, abandoned agricultural lands, state lands and alienated lands.”

Resource security key to Tasmanian forest agreement From Page 10

agreement.

Transitional AFPA CEO Allan Hansard said the agreement was first and foremost about people and ensuring that it was durable so the much desired ‘forest peace’ could be achieved.

“The Intergovernmental Agreement could have serious ramifications for employment

and the wellbeing of regional communities if it isn’t done properly,” he said.

“We are seeking clarification of the apparent incompatibility between guaranteed wood supply and the ENGO reserve claim. We also want the wood supply to industry to be based on sustainable forest management principles, including sustainable yield.

“We do not want this agreement

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to be based on a’cut-out and lock-up’ approach. This means any reservation claim must be assessed in terms of these considerations and only after wood supply can be guaranteed from forests that are managed in accordance with sustainable forest management and international best practice.

“Without certainty of longterm wood supply the industry and communities that rely

on the industrycannot move forward with confidence. It is essential that this core issue is addressed.

“We are also seeking that forest reserves be classified as ‘interim’ so that ENGOs can be held to theirend of the agreement and through this, we can have an agreement that truly delivers long-term peace in the forests.”

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Independents hold balance of power on 18pc TASMANIANS are coming to grips with the fact that five socalled ‘independents’ will hold the balance of power in the Tasmanian Parliament.

So-called ‘independents’ because the successful five and other conservation candidates had agreed to before the election to act as a cohesive political group, and since the poll have appeared no more ‘independent’ than representatives of any other political party.

The five ‘independents’ are led by noted Green activist Dr Bob Brown and Dr Gerry Bates, who were already in Parliament.

They will be joined in the House of Assembly by Christine Milne, of anti-Wesley Vale mill fame, the Rev. Lance Armstrong of the Uniting Church, and Dianne Hollister, who has been prominent on Labour Left issues.

They attracted 18% of the Tasmanian vote, which in any other state would not have given a single seat in a Lower House.

– May 1989

THE timber industry lost one of its most innovative pioneers when Eric Whithead Crooke, 87, slipped quietly from life’s moorings on March 14, after a brief illness.

More than 400 relatives, friends and associates gathered at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Clayfield, to pay final tribute to the veteran sawmiller and seaman.

– March 1989 ** ** ** THE Queensland Premier Mike Ahern will officially open Laminex Industries’ $78 million Craftwood mill at Gympie on December 1 The mill will have production capacity for 100.000 cub m of MDF a year and will employ 146 people.

– November 1988 ** ** ** QUEENSLAND sawmillers, facing a severe log shortage, after a four-month rain deluge, are working to capacity to meet timber orders.

Rain has affected all the state’s timber producers and many have changed their logging

Texan ‘dudes’ at the AWPA conference rodeo night during their US-Chile tour are Ray Kritzinger, Hans Merenksey, South Africa, Hennie Du Tolt, Hickson, South Africa, Rod Eddy, KoppersHickson NZ, Sharon Swan, Koppers-Hickson Australia, Graeme Reese, Koppers-Hickson NZ, and Ian Henderson, Gunns, Tasmania. (June 1994).

Timber Time Warp An occasional column that looks at what made news during the past three decades with images of some of the personalities who shaped the industry over that time – drawing information from the editor’s scrap book.

fronts, shifting plant into higher areas and private stands to maintain production.

– May 1989 ** ** ** STATE Forests of NSW has called for expressions of

Speakers at the Perma-Log Products launch are David Fowlie, Laporte Timber Preservation, Henry Penns, general manager, CSR Softwoods, Jack Norton, Queensland DPI, and Rob Devern, Parkscape Group. (April 1994).

Chatting at the AIC conference John Halkett, State Forests NSW, Ken Shirley, NZ Forest Owners Association, and Tony Neilson, New Zealand Pine.

(April 1994)

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interest for the purchase and processing of 380,000 cub m per annum of logs from radiata plantations around Bathurst in the central tablelands.

The release is expected to be the largest package of quality plantation timber from NSW to be made available until the turn of the century.

– April 1994 ** ** ** BUNNINGS is hoping to export up to $3 million of seasoned jarrah to Japan following introduction of new technology which converts green wood into treated timber in a fraction of the time previously taken.

The Wesfarmers subsidiary’s $6.5 million investment in predrying equipment at a special kiln at Manjimup has increased capacity to adjust to changes in demand for seasoned timber.

Managing director Ron Adams said the latest investment adding to four pre-driers at Deanmill and Yarloop reduced drying time for 50 mm jarrah from two years to three months.

At the AIC Australian Timber and Forestry conference in Sydney .. NAFI’s Ric Sinclair with Barry LaFontaine, Barran Consulting Services and Bruce Keen, former managing director, Boral Ltd. (April 1994).

Greenpeace co-founder Dr Patrick Moore (second from right) introduces his book Pacific Spirit: The Forest Reborn to Selina Weston, Forest Protection Society, Rod McInnes, general manager, Queensland Timber Board, and Jude Aitchison, QTB public affairs manager. (March 1996)

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