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New directions for supply chain responsibility

This Issue

• Treatment standards under review • Festival heralds opening of Forte

Restructure in Tasmania .. harvesting contractors take more aggressive stand.

Digging trenches Logging contractors regroup in Tasmania and the Australian Forest Contractors Association have restructured in a management arrangement covering both organisations.

The move, announced by TFCA chair Karen Hall, and AFCA chair Ian Reid, has come about as a consequence of ongoing

NZ plantations under health surveillance • High dollar frustrates gains in NZ • Understanding the behaviour of timber • Hoo-Hoo clubs celebrate 50 years

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re-structuring of the forest Industry across Australia and has led to a review of staffing within both organisations.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Improving our industry’s capacity to develop and maintain a skilled workforce ............................

Former grid-iron player and noted wood scientist Dr Ronald Clawson from Kop-Coat’s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, laboratories (centre), meets up with Phil Burke, TPAA president, and Dr Harry Greaves, chairman of the TPAA technical committee, at the TPAA national council meeting in Brisbane.

Standards under review at treater talks in Brisbane

By JIM BOWDEN

A WIDE representation of Australia’s major players in the timber preservation industry chose Valentine’s Day to express their love for wood at meetings in Brisbane on September 14 – but they demonstrated that the love goes deeper when the product is durable and treated properly.

Two separate events, one a Queensland Timber Treaters Group forum, and another a national council meeting of the Timber Preservers Association of Australia, confirmed the industry’s concerns that poorly treated wood is entering the market and could lead to premature failure, particularly in structural situations where a 50year life is implied by standards.

Industry self-regulation and deficiencies in some standards dominated discussions as the sector “flies without a parachute” after the recent repeal of the NSW Timber Marketing Act and the abolishment of the Queensland law before it – TUMA, the Timber Utilisation and Marketing Act.

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The industry now has no alternative – it must bite the bullet and police quality assurance under a single association or treaters must embrace third party certification schemes individually. Many are doing this.

Governments will no longer take costly responsibility for the industry’s quality standards.

Twenty-seven participants in the Brisbane treaters’ forum, initiated by Timber Queensland, clearly agreed there are deficiencies in the industry standard AS/NZS 1604 (specification for preservative treatment).

The meeting returned to proposals by the AFPA solid wood technical committee on ways to improve the durability performance of treated products.

These included projects to improve durability performance with reference to life design standard AS1720.5, and the undertaking of a major review of AS1604.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

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bioenergy, carbon farming and new generation forest products being firmly in the national policy arena.

There will be significant resource sharing, including the position of CEO, who will provide services to all members of both organisations.

Former Victorian and Tasmanian forest contractor Colin McCulloch will assume the joint role of CEO as AFCA administration shifts from Canberra to Launceston.

Ed Vincent, who held the TFCA CEO position for three years during intense involvement in the Tasmanian Forest Agreement talks, has resigned.

The AFCA/TFCA will be based at the TFCA Kings Meadows office and will be supported by TFCA administration staff.

The new direction for supply chain responsibility was agreed to by board members of both organisations who look forward to continuing the necessary harvest, haulage and silviculture representations at all levels throughout Australia into the future.

“It’s a modernisation program which could be coded as a total restructure,” Colin McCulloch told T&F enews from Launceston.

“The decision to join forces reflects the industry’s present position and allows harvesting contractors to take a stronger, united lead in both national and local issues.

“We’ve got to do things differently and take a more aggressive approach to the supply chain in our sector.

“In Tasmania, we’ve been up to our necks in it since the start of the process and we’ve got to stop these conflicts from spreading to the mainland.”

Mr McCulloch, who has been with AFCA since its formation

Colin McCulloch .. new CEO of merged organisations.

Ian Reid .. on-going restructuring of industry.

in 2002, said the political landscape required the new approach.

“There’s a lot of time for policy debate by all sides of politics now that the prime minster has announced a September 14 election date eight months out,” Mr McCulloch said.

“That leaves quite a gap for the federal government to appease any demands from the Greens, so we’ve got to be on top of all this.”

Julia Gillard made the election announcement during a speech to the National Press Club on January 30, setting the stage for the longest election campaign in the nation’s history. The Prime Minister said her early announcement would allow business and consumers to “plan their year”. But it was also a challenge to the Opposition to deliver policy detail sooner than it might want.

Serving a full three-year term was also a condition of support from the Green and independent MPs who enabled the Australian Labor Party to form a minority government after the 2010 federal election.

This agreement was to ensure some political stability after an indecisive election result.

Ms Gillard will advise the Governor-General to dissolve the House of Representatives and issue writs on Monday, August 12, for the September 14 election.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott welcomed the announcement and said the election would be about trust.

“The coalition is ready,” he said.

The Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement was designed to support the forest industry to progressively transition to a more sustainable and diversified footing and to build regional economic diversity and community resilience.

Signed by the Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings on August 7 last year, the landmark agreement aimed to provide certainty for Tasmania’s forestry industry, support local jobs and communities, and protect the state’s ancient forests.

But Coalition forestry spokesman Senator Richard Colbeck has said the so-called forest peace deal had imploded after just two days in Tasmania’s upper house inquiry.

Senator Colbeck said it had

‘It’s a modernisation program which could be coded as a total restructure’ – Colin McCulloch

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become painfully clear that the forest IGA would not deliver a sustainable, conflict-free Tasmanian forest industry.

“The Coalition has said every step of the way that this deal was a sham and that it would not deliver a sustainable, conflict-free forest industry for Tasmania,” he said “All of the rhetoric, all of the rationale for this deal has been about peace. All along the Coalition has said this would not be achieved and now even those who were supposed to be delivering peace are saying it will not happen.

“It is time for the grand fraud being perpetrated on the Tasmanian community to stop.”

Meanwhile, Forestry Tasmania chairman Bob Annells has described the Japanese market as ``on a knife edge’’ at a parliamentary committee hearing.

Mr Annells was part of a delegation organised by its biggest contract holder Ta Ann Tasmania that visited Japan to brief customers on the progress of the forestry peace agreement.

Mr Annells said the clear message from Ta Ann customers was ``fix it once and for all or we walk’’.

Forestry Tasmania supports the legislation with some conditions. ``To do nothing in the face of our declining market and absolute proof ... that this market is capable of being destroyed, it will get a lot worse very quickly.’’

Mr Annells also revealed he had met with Infrastructure Minister David O’Byrne to discuss increasing log exports from southern Tasmania and to develop a plan to move processing residues.

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industry news

Interpretation of standard is ‘critical’ From Page 2

The review would look at improving durability performance testing and analysis methods and accelerating test methods for H2 and H3.

The forum was advised that a guide on the ‘durability performance verification of preservative treated softwood products’ was being prepared.

The aim was to provide methods for verifing the durability performance of treated timber, similar to the way in which

the structural performance of timber can be verified, such as in AS4063 and AS 4490.

It was also suggested that a service life and or durability grade product system be investigated to replace the current hazard-based product system.

Concerns persisted at the meeting about the broad compliance in AS1604 and the need for a clearer interpretation of the standard.

It was critically important to recognise that the wording of the standard be applicable

to all hazard classes from H2 (protected from termite risk) through to H6 (hazard environments, such as jetty timbers in sea water).

It was suggested that Timber Queensland request the TM-006 committee to review and tighten the definitions of penetration within AS 1604.

The meeting agreed that treatment quality was an ongoing issue and that a number of options were available for embracing third party quality schemes.

The forum was followed by a

meeting of the TPAA national council at the EWPAA offices at Plywood House, Newstead.

Delegates discussed the TPAA market awareness program in which a TPAA flyer was mailed to members, reproduced in the TPAA newsletter Contact, and displayed in the trade press.

Both the forum and the TPAA council meeting were addressed by noted wood scientist Dr Ronald Clawson, research and development manager with Kop-Coat’s laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Technical amendment to NZ standard approved A TECHNICAL amendment to NZS3640:2003 – chemical preservation of round and sawn timber – was issued by Standards New Zealand in December.

The amendment approved: • Micronised copper quaternary

and microniwed copper azole for hazard classes 3, 4 and 5.

• A water-based azole (propiconazole and tebuconazole [1:1] with permethrin) for hazard classes H1.2 and H3.1.

• Dearomatised ‘white spirit’

solvent.

• Methylene chloride solvent.

• A glueline treatment (triadimefon, cyproconazole, bifenthrin) for laminated veneer lumber for hazard class 1.2.

The micronized copper quaternary and micronised

copper azole formulations have been approved at the same active ingredient retention as the previously approved combination of these actives.

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Crowne Plaza Hotel, Auckland, April 10-11, 2013; Bayview Eden Hotel, Melbourne, April 15-16, 2013. Event website: www. woodresiduesevents.com 7-11: Institute of Foresters of Australia conference – Canberra Rex Hotel, Canberra.

Managing Our Forests into the 21st Century. Australian and international speakers will address delegates on both international and local issues that will face foresters and forest managers in the century, such as politics, policy and perceptions. Contact IFA, PO Box 7002 Yarralumla ACT 2600.

Tel: (02) 6281 3992. Web: www. forestryconference.org.au Inaugural Local 18-19: Government Forest and Timber Industry Conference – Bayview on Eden, Melbourne Aimed at both local government and timber industry professionals from across Australia. The program will have a focus on socio-economic issues and the relationship between local government and the timber industry, and will feature presentations, discussions, workshops and opportunities to learn from and share experiences.

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AUGUST 31: The Cat Goes Gold.

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December 4-5. Focus on improving transport and logistics in the forestry sector.

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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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BIOSECURITY

All NZ plantations will be placed under forest health surveillance ALL forest plantations in New Zealand will be brought into a nation-wide forest health surveillance scheme if next month’s referendum of forest growers is successful.

“A ‘yes’ vote in the referendum will see a small compulsory levy applied to harvested logs,” Forest Growers Levy Trust board member Paul Nicholls said.

“Broadening the reach of the surveillance scheme will be one of the big benefits.”

Forests owned by members of the Forest Owners Association have been monitored for exotic pests and diseases for more than 50 years.

“But new bugs don’t discriminate,” Mr Nicholls said.

“We need to be monitoring forests on the basis of a scientific assessment of risk, not because they are owned by a member of an industry association.”

Increased international trade and air travel mean that biosecurity threats are spreading more rapidly around the world. Among them are pests and diseases that could devastate our plantation and native forests.

Mr Nicholls strongly advises

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Forest health .. monitoring for exotic pests and diseases.

forest growers to vote ‘yes’ in the referendum.

“That will bring the vast majority of our commercial forests into the forest health surveillance scheme and other programs that benefit the industry as a whole. Relative to the massive financial losses that could result from a major pest becoming established in New Zealand, the levy will be very affordable insurance.”

An independent review of the scheme in 2007 described it as

internationally unprecedented and sophisticated. But the authors, two internationally recognised forest health experts, noted there was limited surveillance of farm forests and the conservation estate.

Mr Nicholls says “first night surveys” by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) at forest road-ends and other locations where overseas visitors are likely to embark on a tramp, or open their packs on the first night, have since

‘Relative to the massive financial losses that could result from a major pest becoming established in New Zealand, the levy will be very affordable insurance’ – Paul Nicholls, NZ Forest Growers

addressed the gap in respect to conservation forests.

Some self-monitoring tools have also been developed for owners of farm forests.

“But this is no substitute for a comprehensive scheme involving all plantation forests,” Mr Nicholls said.

The forest surveillance scheme involves annual aerial and drivethrough surveys of participating forests, with on-the-ground physical follow-up checks of anything that looks unusual. In addition there is intensive onthe-ground monitoring in highrisk areas.

Mr Nicholls says MPI Biosecurity is not involved in the monitoring of commercial forests. It intensively monitors high-risk non-forest areas such as parks near ports and international airports. He describes the MPI and forest surveillance programs as complementary.

“The challenge now is to ensure all forests are included, with funding from the proposed levy.”

The Forest Voice referendum will be held in March. For details, visit www.forestvoice. org.nz or phone 0800 500 168.

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ACROSS THE TASMAN

High dollar likely to frustrate gains for forest industry in New Zealand THE forestry and timber industry may be poised for a recovery amid signs of improvement in the New Zealand and US construction markets, but industry players say it could be a delicate one.

According to industry figures, timber exports from New Zealand appear to have bottomed, with $774.5 million worth of cut lumber sold overseas in 2012, up from $770.4 million in 2011, although more timber was sold at a lower unit price.

That’s poised to improve in the year ahead, according to forecasts from the Timber Industry Federation, as construction activity picks up due to the Christchurch earthquake rebuild and a rise in home building activity in Auckland.

Asian demand for New Zealand cut timber and logs is also expected to grow as North American timber supplies tighten due to a recovery in the US home construction market.

Official figures show US builders started work on homes in December at the fastest pace since 2008, with pent up housing demand in the world’s biggest economy boosting construction activity.

But Andres Katz, a forestry economist at Resource Management Services, warns that too much of a good thing could be bad for the cut timber side of the industry.

New Zealand’s timber mills are already delicately balanced in terms of price, with much of the lumber already close to being too costly for developing

economies in Asia due to high production costs and transport prices.

Mr Katz said a sudden spike in demand out of China could lift the price of logs suddenly, and result in a knock-on effect for millers.

“We don’t want to squeeze too hard,” he said. “We want a strong construction market so they can pay our prices, but the worst thing that could happen is strong export log prices and a weak construction market here.”

He said Australia traditionally balanced out blips in the Asian side of the equation, but the protracted slow-down in the trans-Tasman economy was ratcheting up New Zealand’s exposure to price risks.

Mike King, chief executive at forestry and timber consultancy Interpine, said the other elephant in the room was the New Zealand dollar, which was currently trading at over US84c – its highest level in 16 months.

“Any gain we might make in the

actual payments or in the value of the export commodity is often eroded by the high value dollar and shipping costs,” he said. “Those could be the killers of any boom.”

He said the timber industry was also vulnerable to timing issues in the domestic economy, warning that while building consents may have picked up in recent months, timber prices only moved once physical work on those consents started.

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EVENTS

Weekend festival marks opening of CLT skyscraper at Victoria Harbour A STREET festival will welcome the opening of the tallest timber apartment building in the world in Melbourne’s Docklands next week.

Lend Lease will launch its $11 million, 10-storey tower Forte at Victoria Harbour.

The complex, with 23 apartments and ground floor retail space, is a showpiece for cross-laminated timber which is manufactured using layers of timber to create solid panels.

According to Lend Lease, the material reduced CO2 emissions by more than 1600 tonnes compared to structures built from concrete and steel.

The company’s operational excellence head Daryl Patterson said Lend Lease took on the project because it was keen to explore more energy-

Up she goes .. construction starts on the CLT Forte building in Melbourne.

efficient production processes.

faster and safer.

Because CLT was deigned and built in a factory, he said, the building process was also

“The state of the art production processes of CLT ensure a very high precision outcome

compared to steel or pouring concrete on-site,” Mr Patterson said.

He said the material would benefit future residents.

“Using CLT offers better thermal performance and requires less energy to heat and cool which means reduced energy and water costs which averages savings of $300 a year or up to 25% less than a typical codecompliant apartment,” Mr Patterson said.

Should the 23 apartments and four townhouses in the 32.17 m, 10-storey building be snapped up quickly, it is likely that Docklands will see more timber constructions – particularly on the Victoria Harbour peninsula, which is ear-marked for lowrise luxury dwellings.

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PASSAGES

Terry Ramien, 62, was honoured statesman in cypress timber industry TERRY Ramien, an honoured cypress industry statesman from Dubbo, NSW, has died at the age of 62 after a relatively short diagnosis of cancer.

Ramiens Timber at Dubbo is well known in the cypress industry and throughout the central west of New South Wales. The mill was closed as a result of the Brigalow Assessment in 2005 but the business continues to operate as a specialist timber outlet.

Terry Maxwell Ramien was born in Coonamble NSW into the family of Maxwell and Lurline Ramien. Terry lived his early years in Girilambone where his father Maxwell Ervine Ramien (Max senior) was working in the cypress industry.

The family moved to Cobar 1962 when Max snr purchased the Cobar sawmill. Terry attended his junior years of school in Cobar then continued his senior years at All Saints in Bathurst. His career in the timber industry began in Cobar, where he learned the art of logging, snigging, hauling and milling.

He moved to Dubbo with his young family at age 29 to manage the newly acquired Tipping timber mill. For the duration of his working life Terry remained in the timber industry at Ramiens Timber in Dubbo, ever passionate about

Terry Ramien .. passionate about timber and its qualities.

timber, its qualities and its natural beauty. Terry and his brother Max built the business in Dubbo as part of the NSW Cypress Industry Strategic Plan to supply high-valued cypress timber to the town and beyond.

In 2005, the NSW Brigalow Assessment reserved the forests around Dubbo and brought about the closure of the mill.

Terry has been respected in the region, and in the timber industry, as a gentleman of honour and integrity. He has always had a keen appreciation of beauty in its many forms.

He died on Sunday, February 3, and is survived by his daughters Emma, Meagan, Rachel, son Ben and grandchildren Fred, Penelope, and Anthony, 6 months, and brother Max.

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VAFI launches industry support group THE Victorian Association of Forest Industries will launch a Parliamentary Support Group for the forest and wood products industry at Parliament House in Melbourne this week.

The event on Tuesday will be attended by about 100 industry representatives and a large number of Victorian MPs. VAFI CEO Lisa Marty said forestry and the industries that relied on it for wood and

paper products had often been subject to political debate without the appropriate understanding needed to make decisions about this important sector of the economy. “This bipartisan Parliamentary Support Group will help to better ensure our elected representatives understand our industries and maintain an open dialogue with us,� Ms Marty said.

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TIMBER ENGINEERING

Understanding the properties and behaviour of timber in structures

AS1720 timber engineering master classes in April and May Boughton, FIEAust CPEng PhD MEngSci BE, and Jon Shanks MIStructE MEng CEng PhD.

THE University of Tasmania’s Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood has announced its latest series of master classes in timber design.

These are two-day events in timber engineering to AS 1720 Timber structures and will be held in most Australian capital cities in April and May. The centre’s Dr Jon Shanks said that the master classes had been developed to offer the practicing engineers an opportunity to develop design skills targeting commercial and larger structures in timber.

“The master class has been designed to up-skill engineers,” Dr Shanks said.

“This is a very important area of professional development

Dr Jon Shanks .. master class designed to up-skill engineers.

Dr Geoff Boughton .. growing skills in timber use in buildings.

given the growing interest from architects, clients and developers in using timber as a structural material in all types of buildings.”

• Understand the properties and behaviour of timber in structures.

• Use AS1720.1 – Design methods and have an awareness of AS1720.4 – fire resistance for structural adequacy of timber members.

• Design timber members and connections.

• Be confident and inspired to use timber in their designs.

• Be aware of resources available to assist them with timber design such as websites, software, and contacts.

The master classes use case studies, tutorials, instruction and interactive sessions to grow knowledge and skills in timber use in buildings. They have been developed and will be presented by Geoff

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Dr Boughton is director of TimberEd services, a consulting engineering practice in Perth. He is a member of the standards committee that develops AS1720.1 and the relevant ISO committee, and is principal author of the Timber Design Handbook.

Dr Shanks has worked as a consultant engineer designing large timber buildings all over the world, including CLT structures, gridshells and domes. He has a PhD in timber engineering and actively teaches timber at university level. He is passionate about wood and has hand-built a full range of timber structures including a bike and a house.

The master class is eligible as Professional Development for the IEAust. Places will be limited at each venue. More information on the program and speakers is available at www. csaw.utas.edu.au Registration cost for the twoday master class is $1200, or $1050 for members of IEAust, including lunch and refreshments.

‘This is a very important area of professional development given the growing interest from architects, clients and developers in using timber as a structural material’ – Dr Jon Shanks

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BRISBANE TIMBER TREATERS FORUM

Talking timber treatment in Brisbane .. Richard Knowles, Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts, and representatives from itreatTimber Pty Ltd, Narangba, Gerry Gardiner, Wayne Donald and Bill McCarthy.

Conferring at the treaters’ forum in Brisbane are Lonza Timber Protection representatives, from left, Angelo Hratstov, general manager, Greg Jensen, commercial and regulatory manager, and Steven Koch, sales manager, northern region.

Nigel Martin, DTM Timber (left) chats with Warren Jeffrey, Osmose Australia, Brisbane, and Nick Livanes, national business development manager, Osmose Australia, Sydney.

Catching up at the treaters’ forum are Cameron Scott, general manager, Kop-Coat New Zealand Ltd, Rotorua, Tim Evans, IVS Australian business development manager, Caboolture, Tania Fisher, Kop-Coat NZ, and Dr Ronald Clawson, research and development manager, Kop-Coat, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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timber preservation

Amendment to NZ standard From Page 4

quaternary combinations have been assigned separate preservative codes numbers, 88 and 89 respectively.

The approved water-based azole and LOSP azole treatment are the same retention (0.06% m/m total azole) for H3.1. However, an additional requirement is that when the timber thickness is 30 mm of more the central ninth of the cross-section must have 0.02% m/m retention.

This is applicable to both the LOSP and water based azoles formulation types.

The water-based azole for H1.2

Brisbane timber treaters’ forum

Colin Taverner, technical manager, Queensland and Northern Territory, Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts, Brisbane, and Lewis Fisher, managing director, Fisher’s Group, Morwell, Vic, exchange points of view at the Brisbane forum.

(timber framing) is approved at a higher retention, 0.08% m/m total azole and regardless of timber thickness, the same central ninth requirement applies, i.e. to have 0.02% m/m total azole retention.

The higher retention for H1.2 is a reflection of the methods used to test potential framing treatments and potential decay risk from fungi isolated from ‘leaky’ buildings The glueline treatment for laminated veneer lumber is included in the NZS 3640 standard because H1.2 is unique to New Zealand. The minimum amount of active to apply to each glueline has been specified plus the minimum retentions for triadimefon and cyproconazole using an analytical method included as a new Appendix.

In addition, the Standard has incorporated the Building and Housing Amendment 7 to B2/AS1 of the New Zealand Building Code resulting in changes to Table 6.1 for H1.1 and H1.2 in the Standard.

The LOSP treatments of iodo propynyl butyl carbamate (IPBC), bis-(tributyltin) naphthenate (TBTN) and bis(tri-n-butyltin) oxide (TBTO) have been removed from hazard class 1.2 (timber framing). This means that the H3.1 treatments of TBTO, TBTN and copper naphthenate are now specifically excluded from use for timber framing.

Checking the agenda at the treaters’ forum are Jack Norton, timber preservation consultant, Doug Howick, national secretary, Timber Preservers Association of Australia, Melbourne, and Phil Burke, TPAA president, and managing director, Australian United Timbers Pty Ltd, Burraga, NSW.

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HOUSING

Encouraging signs despite headline fall in housing finance: ABS figures DECEMBER’S housing finance figures released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show some encouraging signs for the residential building industry, but do not herald a recovery.

The good news for builders is the number of commitments for the construction of new dwellings rose 1.2% and commitments for the purchase of new dwellings rose 1.9%, seasonally adjusted. However, the headline figure for dwelling commitments – dominated by the purchase of established dwellings – fell 1.5% in December 2012, seasonally adjusted.

Master Builders Australia’s chief economist Peter Jones said that while there are positives in today’s figures for builders, the industry is not yet out of the woods.

“Combined, loans for the construction of dwellings and for the purchase of new dwellings rose 1.4% from November to December 2012, an increase of 8.1% from December 2011,” Mr Jones said.

“Looked at in isolation, the ABS figure suggests interest rate cuts from the Reserve Bank may be beginning to gain traction, but any broad based recovery appears a way off.”

Mr Jones said the concern for the industry was the negative trend that had developed for commitments for the construction of dwellings in recent months.

“This key indicator must turn around if residential building is to improve and play its part bolstering the non-mining sectors of the economy as suggested by Treasurer Wayne

Peter Jones .. industry is not yet out of the woods

Swan and the Reserve Bank,” he said.

“In the broader real estate market, the decline in first home buyers that continued in December is a concern given the various incentives across several states to entice them into the market.

“With consumers still reluctant

to commit to large investments, the Reserve Bank should give urgent consideration to a rate cut at its March Board meeting.”

Meanwhile, Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev has mapped a potential tipping point in wholesale funding markets that could lead the nation’s largest bank to cut home loan rates outside of the Reserve Bank, after improved margins boosted the lender’s interim profit to $3.8 billion.

As CBA’s share price last week powered to a record high on the earnings beat, Mr Narev said the cost of raising debt in wholesale funding markets could, later this year, fall below the cost of the maturing debt banks refinance for the first time since the global financial crisis.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

High-set: when will they ever learn?

AFTER reading the article on high-set Queensland houses (High-set solution to flooded areas, T&F enews February 11), I can’t help but reflect on the old Peter, Paul and Mary song, ‘When Will They Ever Learn?’

When I was at FPM in the early 1970s – years before Charlie Henry Timbers – I was on a TRADAC committee promoting the return of the high-set ‘Old Queensland’ to the housing industry.

Frank Withey of Standard Sawmilling and Harold Marshall of Wilson Hart were on the committee and we produced a brochure ‘Beat the Damp:

Breat the damp .. get above the ground!

Get Above the Ground – On Stumps’.

Industry was concerned that it was losing business in bearers and joists to slab-on-ground houses. A year later we were hit with the 1974 floods.

Again, in the recent Queensland floods these slab homes went under.

Now we are getting exited about the high-set houses again and southerners continue to move into Queensland and build on slabs near waterways.

When will they ever learn?

– CHARLIE HENRY, Sanctuary Cove, Qld. A picture taken in 1970 at the first meeting of the Timber Research and Development Advisory Council (TRADAC) for central and southern Queensland in Brisbane. Front row, from left Jock McBryde, Wilson Hart and Co, David Wilkinson, Wilkinson Timber Industries, A. R. (Alan) Trist, ex Queensland Conservator of Forest, and Lambert Hyne, Hyne and Son. Back row, from left, Ron Whale and Bill Bryan (Queensland Forestry), Guy Simon, Simon Pty Ltd, Ian Farquhar(Plywood Association of Australia), Bill Ashton, Bretts, and Jim Smart (Queensland Forestry).

– Picture supplied by John Huth.

Duck shooters bought cypress sawmill THAT was a good story last week (Motoring with Orson Whiels, T&F enews, February 11). I knew Harold and Sheila Hungerford well. I worked at the Goondiwindi Town Council and than at the

Waggamba Shire offices, so I saw a lot of Harold. My mother was friendly with Sheila through the QCWA. My father had timber dealings with Harold, so we went to the

beautiful Hungerford house outside Goondiwindi many times.

I remember when dad came up to Goondiwindi duck shooting with Fred Duncan and spotted

Hunter’s cypress sawmill. He later bought the mill in partnership with Duncan’s Holdings and was general manger for some time.

– PATSY EVANS, Caboolture, Qld.

Tasmanian company aims to build new sawmill at Rockhampton TASMANIAN-based Timber Marshalling Services aims to build a new sawmill at Rockhampton on Queensland’s central coast, with an estimated annual output of 90,000 cub m of sawn timber, and hopes to have it operational

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by Christmas, according to a report in the Morning Bulletin.

The sawmill is expected to employ between 60 and 120 people and is a 10- to 15-year venture, said spokesman Ron O’Connor.

He said the company’s

home state of Tasmania has “become too difficult to do business,” noting that drivers and operators in the area were leaving. He said Queensland was more business-friendly.

supply from Byfield and is in

It is believed the company has secured a pine timber

would take on both logging and

the process of searching for industrial land for the sawmill.

Timber Marshalling Services doesn’t plan to export logs and trucking operations.

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EVENTS

Hoo-Hoo clubs celebrate 50 years of service to industry in Australia

The ‘cat goes gold’ in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane THE cat goes gold is the cry from three Hoo-Hoo timber industry clubs as they prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary this year.

Sydney Club 215 has booked Rydges Parramatta Hotel for its celebration on March 12, marking the exact date in 1963 when the club was established.

Melbourne Club 217, chartered on June 12, 1963, is planning an event on June 15.

Brisbane Club 218’s ‘The Cat Goes Gold’ dinner at the Victoria Park Golf Complex on August 24 also celebrates the club’s beginning on August 28, half a century ago.

Adelaide Hoo-Hoo Club 212 and Mount Gambier Club 214 celebrated their golden anniversaries last year. They were chartered in 1962 on April 16 and December 1 respectively.

All the clubs are part of Jurisdiction IV of the the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, one of the world’s oldest service organisations, formed in 1892 and symbolised by a black cat.

That Hoo-Hoo has survived all these years is due to the fact that its members are dedicated to the welfare and promotion of

Happy 50th birthday .. Mount Gambier celebrations take the cake.

the industry.

Membership is drawn by invitation from the forest products industry. It includes people in forestry, sawmilling, research, education, transport, manufacturing and marketing of all wood-based products, timber associations, and suppliers to the industry – in fact, all who derive their main livelihood from timber.

Hoo-Hoo gives members contact with energetic and

progressive timber and forestry people in all branches of the business.

JIV president Val Fennell, a Mount Gambier-based logging contractor, said “nationally, membership is strong and going in the right direction”.

During her term, she has seen the revival of Far North Queensland Club 261 at Cairns and the possible restart of Geyserland Club 264 in Rotorua.

That Hoo-Hoo has survived all these years is due to the fact that its members are dedicated to the welfare and promotion of the timber industry

With the exception of Cairns and Malaysia 275, Val has visited every club in the jurisdiction.

She is busy promoting the 43rd annual JIV Hoo-Hoo convention to be held in Mount Gambier, SA, from April 11 to 14 where she will confirm that the next convention in 2014 is planned for Coffs Harbour, NSW. Val heads to the Apple Isle for a combined clubs meeting on February 23 at Swansea in the centre of Tasmania’s east coast.

The Sydney celebration on March 12 will be her last official visit to a club in J1V. Incoming JIV president is Pieter Verlinden of Brisbane Club 218.

Mount Gambier Hoo-Hoo Club 214 staged a magnificent 50th birthday anniversary dinner on December 1, attended by more than 70 members and partners, past members and travellers from Melbourne, Ballarat, Brisbane and NE Victoria clubs, setting a fine pace for celebrations this year on the east coast.

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events

Wonderful evening of fraternalism and pride

Club president Maurie Drewer welcomes guests to the Mount Gambier Club 50th anniversary celebration.

Club gurdon Greg Richardson gets serious at the Mount Gambier celebration at Southgate Motel.

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and industry involvement championing the forest and timber industry.

President Maurie Drewer welcomed guests, secretary Lew Parsons talked about the club’s forestry scholarship program and Doug Howick of Melbourne spoke on the Norton Ladkin Award. Special guest was Mr Ladkin’s widow Helen.

Life member Brian Page, son of founding member Bob Page, outlined what the club had achieved over 50 years.

MC Russell Hay, son of founding member Ian Hay, and foundation and life member Eric Roughana, also a past club president, spoke of the importance of Hoo-Hoo to the industry before cutting a 50th happy birthday cake.

JIV president and HooHoo International board member Val Fennell addresses guests at Mount Gambier.

“It was a wonderful evening of fraternalism and pride in the continuing achievements of this strong club,” Brian Page said.

Celebrations included timber parades in Mount Gambier, timber queen formals, donations of books to libraries, cricket matches and golf days, children’s Christmas parties, visits to the Hoo-Hoo Lookout and Rotunda in the local Lakes area, restoration of the Penola fire truck and the club’s own old log truck and the Hoo-Hoo Pavilion.

The club also helped sponsor the People’s Choice award at a bi-annual wood art exhibition and raised funds for the Gottstein Memorial Trust Fund and the Norton Ladkin Fellowship.

Hoo-Hoo members, past and present, and all representatives of the timber industry are invited

Enjoying the Mount Gambier Club celebrations are Kathy Drewer, Jan Didwell and Janet Richardson, partners of Club 214 members.

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Special guest at the Mount Gambier celebration, Helen Ladkin, widow of JIV Hoo-Hoo founder Norton Ladkin.

to the Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane celebrations this year.

Contacts are: • Sydney: Heather Gattone on (02) 9660 7133 or 0408 280 084.

Email: heatherbelle@iinet.net.au • Melbourne: Trish Waters on 0418 358 501.

Email: waters58@bigpond.com • Brisbane: Don Towerton on 0428 745 455. Email: don@ thoratimbers.com.au or Tim Evans on 0417 726 741.

Email: t-evans@bigpond.net.au *********** CHIEF of international HooHoo Ron Gattone and his wife Heather will leaves for the US the morning after Sydney Club 215’s 50th anniversary celebrations on March 12.

This will be Ron’s 15th visit to the US since he was elected Snark of the Universe in 2011.

Mount Gambier Club secretary Lew Parsons comments on the club’s forestry scholarship commitment.

He will attend the HooHoo International mid-year board meeting in Gurdon, Arkansas, and on the way will address the US Lumbermans Merchandising Corporation’s annual convention in Anaheim, Orange Country, California.

The LMC has gone through many changes since it was formed in 1935. That first year the volume was almost $600,000. Today, there are more than 365 stockholder companies and annual sales volume exceeds $2 billion.

Ron of Crescent Timber and Hardware in Sydney will become chairman of the board at the annual HHI convention to be held in Detroit, Michigan, from September 6 to 10.

Incoming Snark is Jim Breeden of Montalbano Lumber, Houston, Texas.

Mount Gambier Club past member John Hughes and wife with JIV Area 1 vice-gerent snark Brian Stewart.

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China could shift energy investments to forestry, mining, says ambassador

Money keeps pouring into Canada’s resource projects CANADA’S ambassador to China says money from the Asian country is likely to keep pouring into Canadian resource projects.

But Guy Saint-Jacques also says he thinks those dollars will increasingly flow into forestry and mining and as well as energy development.

“I expect that the interest will increase on the mining side,” he said in an interview after speaking to an audience at the University of Alberta last week.

“What I expect also is maybe they will start to get interested in the forestry sector. There’s already investment in pulp manufacturing. I think they are starting to look at potential minority participation in a number of companies.”

Chinese state-owned companies have already staked out a significant foothold in Alberta’s oil patch – especially in the oil sands after the federal government approved a $15 billion takeover of Calgarybased Nexen by China National Offshore Oil Corp. late last year.

PetroChina has also expressed interest in owning a share of the proposed Northern Gateway, which would ship oil sands bitumen to waiting tankers on Canada’s West Coast.

The amount of Chinese money flowing into energy development is still three times the size of the amount going into mining.

But Mr Saint-Jacques, a fluent Mandarin speaker who was appointed ambassador last fall, said that country was looking at other resource opportunities as well.

A Chinese-controlled company now had a plan in front of northern regulators to build

Guy Saint-Jacques .. Canada’s wood exports to China have grown in spectacular fashion.

major open-pit lead, zinc and copper mines along Canada’s Arctic coast.

There was Chinese interest in northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire mining region and in Saskatchewan’s potash reserves as well, Mr SaintJacques said.

He pointed out that Canadian mining exports to China already eclipsed Canada’s entire exports to Germany.

Forestry exports are also increasing rapidly.

“Our wood exports to China have grown in spectacular fashion; in fact, 22 times between 2002 and 2012, Mr Saint-Jacques said.

“The Chinese, who haven’t traditionally built homes from wood, are beginning to realise its advantages in terms of construction ease and insulation.

“There are new applications

in terms of wood that are being specifically applied to the Chinese market, (such as) replacing the roof of a four- or five-storey building. If they use trusses they can replace a block in just a week, so it’s more efficient and they can also have better insulation.”

Chinese policy-makers are also getting a better sense of how Canada balances different interests in resource development, Mr Saint-Jacques suggested.

“They have become a lot more sophisticated. In a number of cases they have started to have discussions directly with First Nations. I think they have come to understand what we mean by being good corporate citizens.

They have refined their thinking.

“I have not perceived any expression of frustration or impatience so far.”

Still, the Chinese welcomed

The Chinese, who haven’t traditionally built homes from wood, are beginning to realise its advantages in terms of construction ease and insulation

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the Canadian government’s decision to streamline environmental approvals for major developments, Mr SaintJacques said.

The ambassador acknowledged trade irritants remain, especially around Canadian investment in China.

“We are still faced with investment restrictions in areas of Canadian strengths, such as mining,” he said. There are also concerns around the rule of law and lack of transparency for Canadian companies dealing in China.

Mr Saint-Jacques said political reform was slow and unlikely to make any major strides forward in the near term as Chinese leadership changes.

He said he was “cautiously pessimistic” about the likelihood of liberalisation in the country.

But he emphasised the two countries had to get to know each other better and noted that Chinese tourism to Canada was increasing so fast that embassy staff had a tough time keeping up with the paperwork. Up to half a million visitors a year could be coming from China by 2015.

“It’s time Canadians returned the interest,” said the ambassador, who urged students to consider a term in a Chinese university as a way of building those bridges.

“There’s a lot of suspicion toward Chinese investment in Canada. My message is this: both sides have to work through the suspicion. Concerns are exacerbated by the lack of knowledge on both sides.”

– The Canadian Press.

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on the road

Violins and a Veloster set classical mood for music and tea at Tyalgum

Curvaceous Hyundai strikes right chord at festival WE were hunting for ‘tea and symphony’ when we cruised into the rural village of Tyalgum (pop. 300) in the classic-shaped Hyundai Veloster Plus coupe.

Our destination was the Madura tea plantation in the NSW Tweed Valley, a visit stirred on the way with the sweet sounds of the Tyalgum Classical Music Festival.

Madura is Australia’s first sub-tropical tea plantation, established by a thirdgeneration tea planter from Ceylon in the late 1970s.

Ten years later, the company pioneered production of Australian green tea, recognising its natural health benefits.

Today, Madura is owned by four local families and remains Australia’s foremost wholly owned and operated tea company.

The music festival began in 1991 after concert violinists Carmel Kaine and John Willison fell under the acoustic spell of the Tyalgum Literary Institute.

Since then numerous artists have ranked the 1908 Tyalgum Hall alongside some of the best concert venues in the world.

Like the festival, the Veloster is a big-ticket item and dealers tell us they are going out the door at an alarming rate. Special deals right now include a driveaway price of $28,000 for the Veloster manual and $33,000 for the super Plus.

The Hyundai Veloster has the body style of a coupe, well balanced on stylish 18 in. alloy wheels and set off by a classy roof spoiler. But unlike proper coupes, it has a third door at the rear, making this car more practical than a sports coupe and making it suitable for a wider market segment.

The Veloster is designed to be versatile as well as small, which

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Call it a hatch or a coupe .. the Hyundai Veloster packs a punch.

is part of its appeal. With just two passengers, we were able to store a surprising amount of luggage. With rear seats up, the Veloster can carry 320 litres of luggage and 1015 litres with the rear seats folded flat.

The push towards designing smaller cars is part of the cultural shift towards vehicles that are compact and more fuel-economic. Bigger isn’t always better, and hatchbacks like the Hyundai Veloster often make their fuel economy one of their key selling points.

Fuel economy in the base model – the 1.6 GDI – is very keen at 5.3 L/100 km on the open road and 8.4 L/100 km

around town for a combined fuel consumption of 6.4 L/100 km. Even so, the Veloster manages to deliver lots of ‘oomph’ out of such a small engine.

The inline-four petrol engine manages to deliver a maximum 103 kW of power (at 6300 rpm) and a maximum 166 Nm of torque (at 4850 rpm), all available for the driver to play with by way of a six-speed manual transmission.

Following the familiar trend with South Korean cars, it has all the bells and whistles inside, everything you’d expect from a modern car – a MP3-compatible CD player with auxiliary input

Veloster’s centre console design takes inspiration from a motorcycle.

and USB/iPod connectivity, all wired up to seven strategically placed speakers; air con with climate control; cruise control; tilt adjustment and telescopic adjustment for the steering wheel; an electrically adjustable driver’s seat, including lumbar adjustment; fast glass front and back; and Bluetooth connectivity.

And that’s just on the base model of Hyundai Veloster.

Our top-of-the range Hyundai Veloster 1.6 GDI Plus DCT adds in leather seats, a double overhead cam under the bonnet, dual clutch man sequential auto mode transmission and an electric sunroof. On the safety front, the Veloster features driver and passenger airbags, front side airbags and side curtain airbags, plus pre-tensioned seatbelts. ABS brakes and brake assist give excellent road control.

The auto climate control in the Plus also uses the screen to tell you how cool or warm you are setting the cabin’s temperature.

And with the panoramic sunroof there’s no need drive with the roof blind closed; it’s tinted heavily enough to dim the sun’s rays.

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