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Hoo-Hoo puts the ho ho in Christmas for needy kids

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers

THOUSANDS of disadvantaged children will enjoy a happier Christmas this year .. thanks to Variety Australia and its annual Bush Bash events. Pictured in a festive mood alongside Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Club 218’s third-time entry in the Variety Bush Bash – 1977 Holden Kingswood – are some of the club members and sponsors who were at Vagelis Restaurant in Racecourse Road, Hamilton, last week to celebrate the run. Top row: John Titmarsh, Gill & Co, Don Towerton, Thora Wholesale Timbers, Jim Bowden, Timber&Forestry enews, Mark Kapper, industry consultant, John Crooke, Queensland Sawmills, Ian Watkins, Advanced Timber Systems, and Tim Evans, Coast to Coast Pacific (Bush Bash coordinator). Kneeling: Alan Jones, Austbrokers Premier Insurance, Alfred Chapple (Club 218 president), and Tilly Moyes of Vagelis. See story, Page 4.

time for a fair go Imported products still failing Australian standards

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Ahead of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s expectation

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Fair Trade (Australian Standards) Bill which he revisited in the senate last week.

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VicForests court win good news for state’s well-managed forests INDUSTRY has welcomed the Victorian Court of Appeal’s judgment in the case of MyEnvironment versus VicForests, which was handed down on December 10 and upheld the Supreme Court’s original finding that harvesting operations near Toolangi comply with Victoria’s regulatory framework.

Victorian Association of Forest Industries CEO Lisa Marty said this was good news for the state’s forest and wood products industry, the thousands of workers it employed and the many communities relying upon it for the livelihoods.

“The local industry plays a critical role in communities throughout Victoria, including through timber manufacturing firms in the suburbs of Melbourne,” Ms Marty said.

“Responsible forest management is key for the future of the industry, and conservation of biodiversity and in particular for threatened species is key to sustainable forest management.

“The decision confirms VicForests’ compliance with legislative requirements to protect the Leadbeater’s possum and biodiversity values.”

Ms Marty said these cases indicated forests needed to be managed on a landscape scale, rather than simply looking at

Lisa Marty .. forests needed to be managed on a landscape scale.

individual parts of the forest in isolation.

“Overall, the vast majority of ash forest is not available for timber harvesting; those areas that are harvested are reseeded using tree species native to the area and allowed to regrow naturally,” she said.

“There is a rigorous and complex regulatory framework under which timber harvesting is undertaken. This includes no old growth forest harvesting in the Central Highlands and no harvesting of areas which meet the criteria for Leadbeater’s possum habitat.”

VicForests has also reduced its harvesting operations in mountain ash forests in recent years, to take into account the impacts of the 2009 fires, with further reductions in harvest Cont Page 9

Festive break for timber&Forestry enews this 300th issue of timber&Forestry enews is the last for 2013 as the industry prepares for the festive break. the first issue in 2014 will be on-line on January 20. the publisher, editor and the t&F enews team wish readers and advertisers the very best for a safe and happy Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous new year.

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Mixed recovery for building a light at end of tunnel in 2014?

Report paints a brighter picture for next three years THE building industry predicts a return to more positive conditions in 2014 – a light at the end of what has been a very long tunnel.

Master Builders Australia’s building and construction industry forecast for the next three years paints a brighter picture for residential and commercial apartment builders.

However, subdued prospects for many parts of non-residential building and a fall-back in engineering construction means overall industry conditions will fail to lift over the forecast period.

The value of residential building work is set to improve strongly over the next three years, but from a low base, after marginal growth in 2012-13. The value of completed residential building work, in real terms, is forecast to grow by more than 25%, from $48 billion in 2012-13 to $62 billion in 2015-16.

The number of dwelling starts is predicted to draw near to 200,000 by 2015-16.

“The underlying assumption is that low interest rates will work to release significant pent-up

Brighter picture .. growth in the building industry is expected to be driven by commercial and industrial construction sectors

demand after a long period of under building during a phase of strong population growth,” Master Builders says.

“The stronger performing states are forecast to be Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.

Non-residential building work declined further in real terms in 2012-13 but is forecast to stabilise over the following three years. Growth is expected to be driven by commercial and industrial building sectors, contrasting with weakness in

social and institutional sectors and education related building.

Reflecting current economic conditions, the key risks are low investor confidence and capacity utilisation leading to poor cash flows and low margins. Lending criteria remain tough.

Master Builders says the engineering construction sector is now easing back from the very favourable conditions created by the intense investment phase of the resources boom which has now peaked. In this context,

engineering construction is predicted to fall by nearly 20% in real terms over the next three years, from $122 billion in 201213 to $102 billion in 2015-16.

After very strong growth, engineering construction activity in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland is forecast to fall back, albeit remaining at high levels.

Housing finance data released last week by the ABS shows a healthy result for construction lending.

The Housing Industry Association says the number of loans advanced for owner occupiers to construct new homes was at its highest level since March 2010. Meanwhile, the upward momentum in lending for new investment property is continuing,” says HIA chief economist Harley Dale.

“The dual growth evident for lending for construction across both owner occupiers and investors is a good sign for new home building activity in early 2014,” Dr Dale said.

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Forest industry welcomes debate on role of bushfire fuel reduction THE Australian Forest Products Association has noted the recent report by the Climate Council on the Australian bushfire threat and welcomes a sensible debate about the role of effective fuel reduction to help control future bushfires.

CEO Ross Hampton says the Climate Council points to a scenario where fuel reduction may have to be massively increased to manage greater frequency and severity of bushfires.

AFPA agrees and argues that removing some of that fuel load by mechanical means instead of just burning must be part of the solution.

Forestry and forest product industries are major stakeholders in terms of providing resources for bushfire suppression and prevention as

Forest fuel management .. controlled burns aim to prevent uncontrollable infernos.

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well as bearing the direct risks to commercial timber and other forest values.

Mr Hampton said AFPA congratulated the Abbott government for its pre-election policy of committing $15 million to a Bushfire Mitigation Program.

To deliver the best return for those scarce taxpayer dollars, this program must include some mechanical removal as well as the usual controlled burns.

“In bushfire-prone areas where people live the fuel load can be reduced by removing small trees from where there are too many, removing woody debris on the ground and taking out a lot of the bushy undergrowth,” Mr Hampton saId. “This can be followed by a controlled burn that is far less likely to get out of control because there is less fuel.

“These approaches to fuel management are being adopted in other fire-prone areas such as in the western United States, where forest land management agencies such as the US Forest Service are undertaking combined tree thinning controlled burns to reduce fuel levels.

“This doesn’t mean an end to bushfires – it does, however, mean that they are less likely to develop into the uncontrollable infernos that destroy lives, property and wildlife.”

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Senior engineered wood specialist Bob Clark and product support specialist Merritt Kline provide an overview of advanced framing techniques and discuss how they can help to optimise material usage and increase energy efficiency.

“Advanced framing is a great concept for builders who are trying to meet today’s strict energy codes, while maintaining a home that is cost effective,

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Richard Colbeck

Ross Hampton

Ric Sinclair

Simon Dorries

Colin Fitzpatrick

John Halkett

On line and on time .. enews posts its 300th edition across all industry

Timber and forest leaders praise journal’s new milestone INDUSTRY has warmly welcomed the 300th issue of Timber&Forestry enews, praising the popular on-line weekly magazine for its “huge achievement and great source of information”.

This 300th weekly edition chalks up more than 7900 deliveries to industry in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.

The magazine is also ‘opened’ regularly by overseas readers in the US, Canada, South America, China, South Africa – and Russia.

T&F enews is also digested by federal ministers and officials in Canberra and in state capitals and is often quoted in Hansard transcripts.

“We’re not only reaching a wider audience than any other

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industry medium – we’re getting to them faster,” says managing editor Jim Bowden.

“Enews allows us to report and comment on issues as they happen and helps drive wood’s message throughout the industry and beyond. And this information is instantly available – anywhere at any time.”

He said enews now circulated to every sector of industry – forestry operations, timber traders, industry associations, training organisations, and politicians on all sides of government. It also had a healthy distribution to project builders, specifiers, building authorities and architects. ** ** ** PARLIAMENTARY Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture

senAtOr riCHArd COLBeCK sent congratulations to Jim Bowden and the team on their 300th edition.

“It’s important that forestry businesses stay up-to-date with industry news and this e-news does a terrific job of keeping industry informed on a wide range of issues,” Senator Colbeck said.

“Each week the pages are filled with a variety of articles including current issues, industry innovations, market

trends, industry achievements and events.

“Timber & Forestry E-news is a great source of information and I look forward to it arriving in my inbox each week.

“Reaching the milestone 300th edition is a huge achievement and shows how respected e-news is by the industry. I congratulate the team for their excellent work to date and wish them good luck for the future.

“Keep up the good work!” ** ** ** IF you mention 300, my communications manager immediately thinks of 300 Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae.

Those of us with more downCont Page 7

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Enews now a central part of industry’s weekly news and intelligence network The ink dries up .. managing editor of Timber&Forest enews Jim Bowden (centre) checks copies of the first printed colour edition of Australian Timberman, a journal he founded in 1977.

The issue was printed on a web offset press by Rural Press in Gympie. The newspaper industry was soon to take a fast turn to online electronic production. The frist e-edition of Timber&Forestry enews appeared on-line on September 10, 2007, the brainchild of media identity Dennis Macready, who has just returned to Queenland from a three-year stint in the publishing business in the US.

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to-earth views will recognise 300 as an impressive milestone for a publication that has kept the forest, wood and paper products industries up to date with relevant political and industry news – and continues to do so through good times and bad.

Well done to Jim Bowden and I look forward to reading issue 301 in the New Year. rOss HAMPtOn, CeO Australian Forest Products Association.

ColourWood Available Now! MANY in the Fourth Estate in Australia don’t always give our sustainable forest industry the true recognition it deserves.

Many stories give a negative slant; others are more positive.

Timber&Forestry enews, however, is straight down the middle as a journal that understands the industry – is passionate about it and is always supportive of it.

It broadcasts the industry’s concerns and achievements across a wide scale.

I would also like to express our appreciation for Jim Bowden’s coverage of FWPA events and research findings.

Jim and his trademark camera have become a regular fixture at conferences, seminars and other gatherings. His photos put a human face to the industry.

Congratulations on your 300th edition. Keep ‘em coming. riC sinCLAir, managing director, Forest and wood Products Australia Ltd.

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A journal that understands the industry From Page 7

TABMA Australia congratulates Jim Bowden and Timber & Forestry enews on the 300th issue.

In a very competitive environment this is a significant achievement and one with which all associated with the publication can be justifiably proud.

Timber & Forestry enews is eagerly devoured by all at TABMA in every state.

Thanks for your continued support of our organisation and the many TABMA and industry faces and events you capture with your ever-ready camera.

Keep up the good work and we look forward to many more milestones being achieved by a very worthy publication.– COLin FitZPAtriCK, chief executive, tABMA Australia. ** ** **

A GREAT achievement.

T&F enews has served the engineered wood products industry well; it has contributed to a greater awareness of EWP products and technologies throughout Australia and New Zealand and beyond.

In particular, the online weekly has championed the cause of ‘home-grown’ products and helped us fight the battle against non-compliant imports, reports on which I know are read and supported by other manufacturing industries and by trade union leaders.

Here’s to your next 300! siMOn dOrries, general manager, engineered wood Products Association of Australasia. ** ** ** THE general manager of the Australian Timber Importers Federation JOHn HALKett also congratulates T&F enews

across the country use it as an essential part of staying across current and emerging issues.”

on achieving yet another milestone – its 300th edition.

“Yes, very well done – particularly to editor Jim Bowden – really an amazing feat of effort and discipline to pump out an issue every week since enews commenced back 300 issues ago.

“Indeed a demonstration of commitment and passion to the forest-based industry that would be difficult to match.”

Mr Halkett said enews was now a central part of the weekly forestry and timber industry news and intelligence network.

“Industry participants right

He added that ATIF had appreciated being able to have its views published from time-to-time and to be able to keep the increasingly important importing and wholesaling sector briefed on local and intentional issues of relevance and to acknowledge the increasing contribution sophisticated imported timber products are able to make to key national building and construction national goals.

“To this can be added the rebuttal of some of the vested interest misinformation about the quality and fit-for-purpose credentials of imported timber products.

“ATIF look forward to enews again next year.”

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Conservation .. supporting the recovery of the Leadbeater’s possum alongside a sustainable timber industry.

VAFI places emphasis on ecological values From Page 2

level planned to take effect from 2017.

“It is disappointing that vast amounts of money were spent

by MyEnvironment on the legal action involved in these two cases, rather than directly engaging and working with VicForests and industry,” Ms Marty said.

“Past models of antagonism and legal action are blunt and destructive. New and improved models of engagement on forest management issues are required to support environmental, economic and social outcomes.

“VicForests and VAFI are both contributing to the Leadbeater’s possum advisory group, which is currently drafting recommendations for the Victorian government to support the recovery of the Leadbeater’s possum alongsidedennis@industrye-news.com a sustainable timber industry.

“Our association supports the effective conservation of threatened species and other ecological values, and we hope that all parties look for opportunities to collaborate for positive ecological, social and economic outcomes in the future.”

Carbon rules lost opportunity THE NZ government has clarified what units will be permitted in the emissions trading scheme from 2015, but this does nothing to stimulate action to reduce the nation’s net greenhouse gas emissions, says the Forest Owners Association.

“Acting climate change minister Simon Bridges says he wants to bring certainty to participants in the ETS. But overhanging the market is the ability of the government to auction NZUs to stimulate supply,” says association vice-

president Peter Clark.

“Since the government has given no indication of the NZU price at which auctioning would be used, both emitters and foresters have been left uncertain and unwilling to take action.

“This is deeply concerning for anyone who understands the economic and environmental potential of forestry. Without a meaningful carbon price, new planting will remain at extremely low levels and deforestation on land with dairying potential will continue apace.”

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Bill aimed at decreasing levels of non-compliant building products From Page 1

Industry has been inundated with examples of imported products that do not meet Australian standards and are not covered under the ACCC’s area of authority.

Addressing the Senate on December 5 in the second reading of the Bill, Senator Madigan said: “One of the most damaging influences on Australian manufacturing and farming is ever-growing, unfettered and uncontrolled free trade agreements.

“Despite the rhetoric from both sides of politics and the big end of town that FTAs are great for the economy, I doubt you would get too many average Australians who share that level of enthusiasm, at least not in the way these FTAs seem so often to be heavily weighted in the favour of our trade partners.

“Do not get me wrong; trade is good. On that score, Australians would agree that we need to trade to survive, just as the rest of the world does. But in saying that trade is good, we cannot automatically assume all trade is good, fair or beneficial to our economy and to the Australian people as a whole,” Senator Madigan said.

He said the Bill was aimed at the rapidly increasing level of imported products that did not conform to Australian standards.

“Australian standards exist for every industry, and in every one of those industries I could give you countless examples of imported products that consistently fail to meet Australian standards and yet are allowed access to the marketplace and the worksite,” Senator Madigan said.

“Unfortunately, we often hear about these products after devastating results to life and limb of workers, consumers

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Tough stance .. Bill looks at the impact inadequate enforcement of standards has on builders, workers and homeowners.

and companies as well as to the viability of our local industry and the economy itself.

“I could tell you about Australian companies who are going to the wall simply because we do not adequately enforce Australian standards on imported products and materials.”

Senator Madigan said Australian standards were not enforced in the building industry.

“We are looking at the impact inadequate enforcement of standards has on the workers, builders, homeowners, investors and general consumers who are part of that industry,” he said.

“An Australian Industry Group report – The quest for a level playing field: the nonconforming building product dilemma – revealed widespread use of non-conforming products across the building and construction sector.

“Ninety-two percent of companies responding to the nation-wide survey reported the use of non-conforming products.

“That figure alone ought to send

Senator John Madigan .. the buck must stop with the government.

shivers down the spine of every occupational health and safety officer in this country.”

Senator Madigan said the report also found that almost 45% of those companies surveyed in the engineered wood, steel, electrical, glass and aluminium sectors reported lost revenue, reduced margins and lower employment numbers due to non-conforming products.

He said most of these products did not meet regulatory

‘i could tell you about Australian companies who are going to the wall simply because we do not adequately enforce Australian standards on imported products and materials’ – John Madigan

Australian or industry standards; others were not fit for their intended purposes, were not of acceptable quality, contained false or misleading claims or were straight-out counterfeit products.

Prior to the September election, the Australian Forest Products Association surveyed the ALP, the Coalition and the Greens on matters of concern to the timber and forestry industry.

“While there were plenty of stock standard election-made answers, a few stood out,” Senator Madigan said.

“The question was asked: do you support strengthening measures to avoid import of substandard quality forest products?

The Coalition answered that they supported the enforcement of measures to avoid importation of substandard forest products. ‘If necessary, we will also consider the strengthening of these measures. It is important that materials used in the Australian construction industry meet Australian standards’.

“I am glad that the new government felt that way in opposition. I look forward to them doing all they can to fulfil those desires now that they are in government.

“I hope that supporting this Bill and its small effort towards improving the situation related to non-conforming products is on their list of things to do, not only for the economic benefit it brings to Australian manufacturers and businesses but also because of the significant costs imposed on Australian workers and families due to injury and death caused by the widespread use of nonconforming products.”

Senator Madigan said nonconforming products were allowed onto the market due to

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Governments have failed consistently to uphold standards From Page 10

inadequate surveillance, audit checks, testing, verification and enforcement.

He said this seemed to be backed up by the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia, who in 2010 cautioned Australian timber importers against noncompliant imported timber products.

“The association had completed laboratory tests on Chinese structural LVL beams entering our markets and found they failed the Australian standards on bond, grade type, formaldehyde emissions and preservative penetration,” Senator Madigan said.

“The government’s own National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme stipulated that only low formaldehyde emitting pressed wood products should be used, as required by the Australian standards for formaldehyde emission limits.

“Recently, plywood and veneer wardrobe and joinery items imported from China and installed in a multi-unit building project in northern New South Wales were condemned after the department of housing found emission levels had, in their words, ‘soared through the roof’ and that the health and safety of occupants was at risk.

“The president of the Furnishing Industry Association of Australia Fred White said he was not surprised at these outcomes if imported Chinese products were used. He said that he had advised project builders: ‘If they install imported materials that fail Australian standards for emissions and safety then they have to cop it sweet if these products cause an illness or a death, and that this could go as

high as a royal commission.

“I would hope we could avoid anything like a royal commission by simply enforcing the standards now in place.”

Senator Madigan said Simon Dorries, general manager of the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia, stated that “.. the bottom line is that this imported product is threatening the lives of builders and homeowners and we fear some of them have already been installed”.

“But of equal concern to Mr Dorries is that ‘Standards Australia does not licence or police the use of Australian standard numbers on products’.

“And in a statement I find to be utterly damning of our current controls, he states: ‘Any manufacturer in any country can brand an Australian standard without any testing or checks by anyone’.

“I know many of you will say we have Customs, the ACCC or Standards Australia to oversee these problems. Surely they can handle it.

“I have put a number of questions to the ACCC over successive senate estimates and, quite frankly, the answers have raised serious concerns.

“In the end, though, the buck must stop with the government.

Consistently Australian governments have failed to ensure Australian standards are being met.

“The Prime Minister has already stated that he is giving top priority to the completion of a free trade agreement with China and with numerous other countries through the TransPacific Partnership. So now is a good time to start toughening up our stance when it comes to Australian standards.”

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tasmanian industry urges Abbott government to honour peace deal Key players fear a return to environmental strife THE Abbott government is under pressure from the industry to reverse its election promise to scrap the Tasmanian Forestry Agreement.

Two of the biggest and most influential players told the ABC’s 7.30 last week the forest peace deal had allowed them to expand and create jobs for the first time in years.

The agreement was signed in late 2012 in an attempt to end decades of division and conflict between loggers and environmentalists that have crippled the industry.

In return for protecting 500,000 ha of forest, some green groups agreed to end all protests and support the forestry industry.

Neville Smith Timbers, which manufactures flooring and is one of the major beneficiaries of the forest peace deal says it is struggling to keep up with demand, with orders twice that of production levels.

“The Tasmanian Forestry Agreement really has allowed us to re-think what we’re doing within our businesses and engender confidence with our customers,” executive chairman James Neville Smith said.

“I’m an eternal optimist and have no doubt that where we’re heading there’s a bright future.”

That positive outlook is shared by the Malaysianowned veneer manufacturer Ta Ann. Without the peace deal the company would have left Tasmania because it was losing customers as a result of pressure exerted by environmentalists.

“I don’t think we’d be operating the business, frankly,” executive director Evan Rolley said.

“The Forest Agreement provided the basis on which

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More conflict .. industry fears there could be more fighting in the forests.

Senator Eric Abetz

James Neville Smith

we could go back in the market and hold the small amount of market that was still there for us.

“As conditions are improving, it will take two to three years to build again to be in a strong financial position.”

The company received $26 million in compensation in return for forfeiting 40% of its wood supply.

Now its former Japanese customers have started to talk to them again and Ta Ann is building a new plywood mill and will begin employing staff early next year.

“It’s better to have 60% a volume that you can sell product in the market than to have a 100% and not be able

Evan Rolley

to sell that product,” Mr Rolley said on 7.30.

“So a judgement, a business judgement essentially, is made that that reduction and the compensation to offset the impact was a way forward.”

Industry associations fear a return to environmental strife.

Terry Edwards, chief executive of the Tasmanian Forest Industries Association, has written to the Prime Minister calling on him to back away from his pledge to scrap the deal and allow logging in recently protected areas of world heritage forest.

The Abbott Government is currently in talks with the World Heritage Committee to de-list sections of Tasmanian forest,

‘i feel sorry for the workers who have lost their jobs, for the communities that will now become ghost towns – senator eric Abetz

but environmental groups have warned that will result in a return to mass-scale protests.

The forestry industry is watching on with grave concern.

“If this thing is a five-minute deal .. then I’d be very disappointed,” Mr Neville Smith said.

“We can generate more economic development and more economic stimulus doing more with less than what we will do if we go back to the conflict and the instability that will inevitably create.”

Evan Rolley believes the Coalition could change its position.

“I don’t take a view that the agreement will be scrapped,” he said. “I’m a glass-halffull person. I’m incredibly optimistic that good sense will always prevail.”

But so far the Abbott Government is refusing to back down. Senior government minister and Tasmanian Senator Eric Abetz has hit back at the industry, accusing it of naked self-interest.

He blames the deal for causing hundreds, if not thousands, of job losses in Tasmania, which has the highest unemployment rate in the country.

“Individual members of the forest industry might be satisfied with being given money and being paid out from creating the jobs and the wealth, but I feel sorry for the workers who have lost their jobs, for the communities that will now become ghost towns,” Senator Abetz said.

Some high-profile environmentalists like former Greens leader Bob Brown and the Huon Valley Environment Centre have not supported the deal and there have been some small anti-forestry protests.

industry CHArity eVent

Hoo-Hoo ready again for Bush Bash run to raise funds for needy children Club’s Kingswood revs up as forest industry’s ‘kids care’ car

By JiM BOwden

VARIETY has its roots in the entertainment industry but its core is the community.

People from all walks of life, throughout Australia, can contribute and experience the joy of helping children in need.

Variety is described as the ‘Heart of Show Business’ because it was started by a group of theatre owners and showmen in Pittsburgh, USA. Initially, the group would get together after performances to play cards at a social gathering they called the ‘Variety Club’.

One night in 1928 they heard whimpering from the empty Sheriden Theatre and when they investigated the source of the noise, they discovered an abandoned baby. The baby’s mother had pinned a note to the child’s clothing which read: “Please take care of my baby.

Her name is Catherine. I can no longer take care of her. I have eight others. My husband is out of work. She was born on Thanksgiving Day. I have always heard of the goodness of show business people and pray to God that you will look after her. Signed, a heartbroken mother”.

A police search to find the mother failed, but the theatre owners’ hearts had already melted. They took the baby in and named her Catherine Variety Sheridan and so the stage was set for the formation of the children’s charity organisation Variety.

Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Club 218, its origins going back to the formation of Hoo-Hoo International in 1892 in Gurdon, Arkansas, USA, has always supported children’s charities since it was formed half a century ago.

Club pioneers, veterans and life

Thanks .. Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Club 218 president Alfred Chapple (fourth from left) presents certificates of appreciation to sponsors at the launch of the club’s entry into the 2014 Variety Bush Bash in Brisbane.From left, Ian Watkins, Advanced Timber Systems, John Titmarsh, Gill & Co, John Crooke, Queensland Sawmills, Alan Jones, AustBrokers Premier Insurance, Don Towerton, Thora Wholesale Timbers, Mark Kapper, industry consultant, and Tim Evans, Coast to Coast Pacific.

members reckon the club has provided around $1 million in cash and building materials to various children’s charities over the years.

In 2012, the club joined up with Variety, taking part in the annual Variety Bush Bash.

The club’s own Bush Bash veteran, a 1977, Holden Kingswood – dubbed the national forest industry’s ‘kids

care car’ – has clocked up almost 8000 km in two events in Queensland. A team of HooHoos along with 500 other drivers will undertake the Brisbane to Sydney charity run in 2014, the 25th anniversary year of the Variety Bash beginning.

Club 218 drivers travel at their own personal cost, paying for fuel, meals and

Happy smiles .. children from South Johnstone state school in North Queensland crowd around Car 253, entered in the 2013 Variety Bush Bash by Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Club 218.

Club 218 pioneers, veterans and life members reckon the club has provided around $1 million in cash and building materials to various children’s charities over the years

accommodation, and their valuable time.

“Bash vehicles are not race or rally cars; they are lovingly restored vehicles in all shapes and sizes from all over the world,” Bush Bash coordinator Tim Evans said.

“They must be 30 years old or older at the time of entry. They must be two-wheel drive, and they cannot have any ‘go-fast’ modifications. Improvements may be made in the interests of improved safety, but not for speed.”

Tim said children growing up with disability, serious illness or other disadvantages needed help from a special charity.

“And that’s why we’re doing it – doing it for the kids,” he said.

“Variety provides grants to individuals and organisations for a great number of items for children such as special wheelchairs, vocal output speech devices, prosthetic limbs, special play equipment, Liberty Swings, Sunshine Coaches and much more.”

The club has made an appeal to the industry Australia-wide to support the event next year. Many timber companies and individuals provided sponsorships for the club’s previous efforts, including the Australian Forest Products Association, Forest and Wood Products Australia and the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia.

“Come on, give us a go – it’s for children who need our help,” Tim Evans said.

Initially, sponsors can contact Tim on 0417 726 741. Details of a special web site for donations will be advised in the New Year through Timber&Forestry enews.

Or donate at: https://2014bash. everydayhero.com/au/tim

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wOOd innOVAtiOn

Building industry takes a siP of new structural insulated panels Wood ‘sandwich’ taste of future construction trends A WOOD ‘sandwich’, a structural insulated panel or SIP, may soon be served to the building industry to replace wood studs and batt insulation in home construction.

In a project by Canada’s National Research Council, brown wafers at the top and bottom of the panel are oriented strand board, a product that itself is a layered assembly of wood strands and glue.

The creamy filling, uninterrupted by the 2x4s and 2x6s that act as energy-robbing thermal bridges in traditional walls, is polyurethane foam, a plastic made from petrochemicals, but here with an additional, homegrown ingredient – now lignin.

Lignin is the substance that binds fibres and cells in trees and other plants.

After cellulose, it’s the most abundant organic polymer – or chemical compound of linked identical molecules – on earth. That makes it the world’s second-most common renewable carbon source.

Canada has lots of lignin; it also is a huge producer of flax and has much land suitable for growing hemp. The stalks of those plants are another

Taste of the future for building .. John Maker at the Canadian National Research Council is leading a project to help companies get products containing biomaterials, such as structural insulated panels, to market.

– Ottawa Citizen photo.

source of ingredients that could supplement oil-based products in building materials and consumer items, or anything made of the mouldable materials we call plastic.

Right now, however, these and similar forestry and agriculture by-products – grain husks are another – are largely considered waste, at best suitable for burning to create heat or energy. Turning them into viable commercial products is the focus of the

Canadian government’s industrial biomaterials program, a five-year, $55 million effort announced in November.

Success could have a double payoff, the researchers say.

Environmentally, there are benefits in reducing the need for petrochemicals as base ingredient. And since products made from biomaterials can be lighter than traditional plastics, there are further energy savings in their installation and use.

“These biomaterials promise

to be as safe as the materials currently in use by industry, inexpensive to produce and the ideal lightweight technology for the automotive and construction sectors,” said NRC president John McDougall in announcing the project.

“Economically, they can open new markets for sectors such as forestry, an $80 billion industry in Canada but under increasing pressure from declining North American demand and competition from low-cost wood from other nations.”

As an organisation, the NRC has also found itself pulled in two directions, its longtime focus on ‘pure scienceunder fire from a conservative government intent on moving it toward a more practical approach.

The biomaterials program – an umbrella effort that comprises a $30 million direct investment by the research council and $25 million in ‘collaborative projects’ with industry, schools and other government departments – is clearly on the practical side.

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Opportunity: new engineered product Project seeks access to on-going timber resource

ThIs engineered product is manufactured from small diameter treated true round plantation logs that would normally be chipped or destroyed. Resource cost is minimal.

The production system is low capital cost and can be set up in a minimum of time and at a minimum of cost. Compared with current systems such as LVL, sawn timber etc. this product has unrivalled versatility, fire resistance, projected longevity and sustainability.

This product has the ability to lower the costs of floor and wall framing in modern homes, as well as being ideal for low-cost housing The entire buildings can be erected on site using unskilled labour.

The product has undergone comprehensive testing at the engineering faculty of the University of Technology Sydney under the guidance of internationally renowned timber engineer Prof. Keith Crews.

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The project is keen to establish a plant near a guaranteed resource.

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Durability of the panels will be a key focus From Page 14

Armand Langlois, head of Enerlab, the Quebec company developing the lignin structural panels, believes Canadian companies, especially small firms like his 12-employee shop, could never take on such projects without help from institutions such as the NRC and Montreal’s École Polytechnique.

“They have knowledge, they have instrumentation, they have scientists .. we didn’t have all those resources to accomplish this,” Mr Langlois said in an interview.

Well before the formal launch of the biomaterials program, Enerlab was working with the NRC to overcome such obstacles as lignin’s variability between species, and even between regions. Now the company is seeking patents and hopes to begin sales next spring of insulated boards

Environmental benefits .. biomaterials in structural insulated panels promise to be as safe as the materials currently in use by industry.

containing up to 25% lignin.

Production of SIPs and spray foam will follow.

Mr Langlois, who hopes to sell licensing agreements for the technology in other countries, sees enormous potential demand.

“The polyurethane market is huge. Polyurethane is used

almost everywhere – it’s in buildings, in automobiles, in shoes, bedding, everywhere.”

Getting acceptance for new or products, however, can be as difficult as developing them.

For the structural panels, Mr Enerlab is part of a group of manufacturers working with the NRC and the Alberta

government to develop a technical guide for SIPs that should ease the concerns of building code authorities.

John Makar, an Ottawa-based research officer in the NRC’s building envelope and structure department, is leading the three-year project.

He’s comfortable with the handson approach, noting that the council’s Ottawa campus tends to specialise in product evaluations, “We’re doing science and engineering (but) we’re more positioned to the application,” he said.

Durability of the panels will be a key focus. Tests will be set up to mimic the effects of years of humidity changes, vibration and other forces. Within six months, frames will be in place to allow the testing of full SIPs ‘sandwiches’, and not just the bite-sized pieces being assessed now.

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return of the chestnut roast

Finding solution to ‘genetic-dead’ trees in the US

By JiM BOwden

‘CHESTNUTS roasting on an open fire’ is a line from a song that conjures up fond holiday memories for those of us extracted from the northern side of the globe.

It also brings some fun, and at times painful recollections, of the game of Conkers I played as a schoolboy in London.

Conkers is a traditional children’s game in Britain and Ireland, played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees. [The name ‘conker’ is also applied to the seed and to the tree itself].

The game is played by two players, each with a conker threaded onto a piece of string.

They take turns striking each other’s conker until one breaks.

Hence, the sore knuckles!

In Australia, the Chestnut Growers Field Day at Stanley in northeast Victoria on February 8 next year, will launch the chestnut season here.

For many, the joy of roasting chestnuts has yet to be experienced. However, there is a growing world-wide shortage of productive chestnut trees.

But the US Forestry Service tells us that the lack of chestnuts in

Under the spreading chestnut tree .. the forest scientist stands!

America could change, thanks to some very dedicated people.

The Forest Service and its partners may be one step closer to restoring the American chestnut tree to parts of the mountains and forests of the southern United States.

Since 2009, they planted close to 1000 potentially blight resistant American chestnut trees on national forests in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. To date, more than 80% of the American chestnut backcross hybrid saplings planted in the national forests have survived.

Most of the trees are healthy,

growing steadily and showing differing levels of resistance, a sign of encouragement to the hopeful community of people working to return the tree to its native range.

The once-young seedlings have reached an average height of 2.5m and have overcome what Stacy Clark, a Forest Service scientist at the agency’s Southern Research Station, calls “planting shock” by developing a strong root system and adapting to their new environment. Before the introduction of the chestnut blight in the early 20th century, American chestnut trees

dominated forests of the eastern US. Known as the ‘redwoods of the east’, they often reached towering heights of 435 m or more. At one time, one in every four hardwood trees in eastern states was an American chestnut, according to estimates.

By the 1950s, the blight had killed billions of trees and left the species virtually nonexistent. Today, any chestnuts found in the eastern forests never grow beyond a few metres tall and rarely flower.

Chestnut trees have reached a ‘genetic dead-end’ in the US because of their inability to reproduce.

“One level of success is to develop a tree that will survive long enough to naturally pollinate and reproduce,” says Bryan Burhans, president of the American Chestnut Foundation.

Burhans says he is optimistic about the future of the American chestnut hybrid, but admits that the trees planted in national forests face challenges in the coming years.

try this chestnut stuffing recipe THIS traditional chestnut stuffing recipe, using fresh chestnuts, is very delicious and rich and goes perfectly with the Christmas turkey.

Preparation time 25 minutes; cook Time 50 minutes. Total time: one hour and 15 minutes.

Ingredients: 2 cups whole chestnuts (fresh or canned variety); 1 cup butter; 1 onion, chopped; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1 tsp. salt; 1/4 tsp. pepper; 1 tsp. dried marjoram leaves (a perennial herb with sweet pine and citrus flavours) or substitute oregano; 1 tsp. dried thyme leaves; 1/2 tsp. poultry seasoning; 1 pound white bread, cubed and dried

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garlic, salt, pepper, marjoram, and poultry seasoning, and cook until onions are tender, about three minutes. Transfer to a medium baking dish, and mix with the cubed bread.

overnight; 1 pound whole wheat bread, cubed and dried overnight; 3 eggs; and 1/3 cup milk.

Preparation: With a sharp knife, cut slits in the surface of the chestnuts. Place chestnuts in a medium saucepan, cover with cold water, and bring to a boil over high heat. Then cover saucepan, reduce heat to medium, and simmer 25 minutes, or until chestnuts are tender when pierced with a knife.

Drain the pan and let the chestnuts cool until you can handle them.

Carefully peel the chestnuts using a very sharp knife and chop coarsely. (You can substitute two cups of canned chestnuts, rinsed

In a small bowl, beat together eggs and milk, and drizzle over the cubed bread mixture. Toss with your hands gently to coat everything well.

and drained; while this is easier, it isn’t as authentic!

Preheat oven to175C. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in chestnuts, onion,

Use this mixture to stuff into a seasoned turkey. Roast the direction according to roasting tables. If stuffing is left over, place it in a greased casserole and bake at 175C for 30 to 45 minutes, until top is crisp and lightly browned.

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