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CONTINUING Australia’s remarkable run of economic growth will require businesses and governments to take more deliberate and purposeful steps in response to global forces of change, Business Council of Australia President Catherine Livingstone said.

Ms Livingstone used her first major speech as BCA president to launch a landmark paper that recommends a radical rethink of how Australia understands its economy and plans for wealth creation.

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“I can just see the remnants of forest research”.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Rapid growth ..

Laurie Hein of Green Triangle Forrest Products inspects bluegum plantation in Mount Gambier.

Forestry wary of water plan in South Australia

Industry treated unfairly: FWPA

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IN an Australian ‘first’, parts of South Australia’s forestry sector will now be accountable for the water used to grow trees.

The requirement for commercial water licences will apply to bluegum and pine plantations in the southeast corner of the state.

Australian Forest Products Association CEO Ross Hampton believes the forest industry is being treated unfairly. He says the water licensing policy introduced by the South Australian government is based on ‘artificial’ evidence.

Forestry companies in the lower southeast will be required to buy water licences, as part of the state’s plans to ensure sustainability of the resource.

It has taken the government nearly a decade of work to introduce the policy.

AFPA agrees a licensing system is needed but rejects the science underpinning the government scheme.

“There are some understandings that we think are wrong around the way that forests intercept water,” Mr Hampton said.

“When you plant a tree you know that trees use more water when water’s available and they don’t use as much water when the water isn’t there.

“So it doesn’t make sense to create this carte blanche view

that has taken a very high view of what the water used by forests is.”

“This is a terrible blow really to all of those businesses that rely on their raw material of forests.”

AFPA believes the state government has come up with an artificially-inflated valuation for their water licences.”

Meanwhile, Professor Jennifer McKay of the University of South Australia’s law school says the water scheme is ‘world class’ and based on a wealth of evidence.

“There was a very good study done by CSIRO, like in the 80s, and that was followed up by some more recent studies,” she said.

Bluegums benefit community “Having forestry account for its water use in any water region is a fundamentally sound principle.”

Years of controversy, division and failed managed investment schemes have finally turned to prosperity for the Tasmanian bluegum industry in the state’s southeast as export demand for woodchips rises rapidly.

Boosted by heavy Chinese buying, the harvesting of bluegums in the Green Triangle region of South Australia and Victoria has increased revenue

from $75 million in 2012 to about $170 million last year, rising to an estimated $250 million this year.

The whole community is benefiting as jobs rise rapidly in harvesting and hauling companies, at fuel suppliers, mechanics and tyre suppliers, as they all benefit from the rising fortunes of the industry.

Behind the rapid growth is demand from China to make fine writing, copy and tissue paper, to make rayon for nylon shirts and cellophane wrapping paper and to produce high quality cardboard for perfume and cigarette boxes.

Green Triangle regional plantation committee chairman Laurie Hein said the Tasmanian bluegum industry had been transformed from doom and gloom to a vibrant forestry sector, creating jobs and a rising sense of optimism.

The need for harvest contractors, freight companies and other service providers along the whole supply chain had risen strongly in the past year as the level of harvesting had risen substantially to meet the Chinese demand, Mr Hein said.

“We are seeing a return of confidence and a steady increase in harvesting due to excellent demand from China, although prices are still not as good as we’d like to see,” he said.

INDUSTRY NEWS

Senseless to lose last 33 forestry scientists to competitor nations

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perspective of Australia’s international competitiveness by sector, and an insight into where we can succeed at a global scale.

“What we have found is that across a range of measures, most of our industry sectors are not competitive against the United States – a country still viewed as being at the forefront of productivity and innovation,” Ms Livingstone said.

Australian Forest Products Association CEO Ross Hampton said Australia had been crying out for such a report.

“These findings reinforce the absolute madness of the CSIRO choosing to effectively axe its forest science capability as it searches for budget savings,” he said.

“The forest products industries of Australia employ 80,000 people, most in regional communities. In a carbonconstrained global economy which is rapidly rediscovering the advantages of renewable timber and fibre, Australia must back our comparative advantage and not back away.”

He said McKinsey discovered that agriculture (which McKinsey says includes forestry and fishing) is the absolute standout leader in terms of competitiveness, skills and natural endowments, and has massive potential to add jobs and growth to the nation.

“In McKinsey’s terms it is an ‘advantaged performer’,” Mr Hampton said.

Ross Hampton added: “Balancing the budget by

Catherine Livingstone .. Ross Hampton .. enormous rediscovering the opportunities. advantages.

removing forestry research capacity in CSIRO is far from visionary; it is contrary to everything the McKinsey report recommends.

“As this report says, ‘Australia faces a stark choice. It can take a purposeful path to regain its competitiveness, or risk a painful correction’.

“A step on that purposeful path is for the government to tell CSIRO that it makes no sense to lose its last 33 forestry scientists to competitor nations such as Chile, Vietnam, China, Canada and New Zealand.”

Dr Megan Clark .. chief executive of CSIRO.

and international education.

“The BCA looked at these findings and saw enormous opportunity,” Catherine Livingstone said.

“But only if Australia changes its mindset to acknowledge that the unstoppable forces of globalisation and technology have shaken up forever what it means to be competitive at a world standard.”

She said Australia had recorded average annual economic growth of 3.4% over the past two decades, driven by structural policy reforms and a rise in its terms of trade.

“But we cannot continue to rely on these factors,” she said.

“Maintaining growth in the next decade will be a much harder task than it was in the previous two decades.

“If Australia is to stay competitive and support jobs and prosperity, then policy must be more focused on the specific requirements of each sector of our economy to maximise their comparative advantages.”

Ms Livingstone said, “balancing the budget is not a vision: it is a means to an end”.

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‘Balancing the budget is not a vision’ McKinsey found that Australia was strongly competitive in only one sector – agriculture.

However, it found that Australia had a substantial comparative advantage in other sectors with flat or diminishing competitiveness, including mining and LNG, tourism and food manufacturing, highly differentiated manufacturing,

‘We help grow Australia’s productivity through excellent science that provides a positive impact for Australia every day. Case studies show how we have applied our research to challenges, improving lives, creating wealth and ongoing benefits to society’.

– CSIRO website

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INDUSTRY NEWS

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THERE are only three days to go before one of the most important conferences for the Australian forestry and forest products sector gets under way in Melbourne.

A quick snapshot of the program can be seen at www. dana.co.nz All 23 speakers and panellists are in place, including a new speaker just confirmed – Mihir Gupta of the fisheries, forestry and land branch of ABARES. He will discuss ABARES activities, and the findings of a recently published ABARES report on the Australian wood processing industry.

The report provides an up-todate look at the production and composition of Australia’s wood processing sector.

“The meeting will be very timely to bring all delegates right up to date with a very dynamic and fast changing industry,” said Dennis Neilson of Dana Ltd, which is organising the event on August 7 and 8.

Key trends outlined at the

conference include • Australian housing starts are in sight of breaking the alltime record, set way back in the mid- 1990s. Lots of implications here for various forest industry sectors.

• The China economy can be up and down – and up again – which affects many sectors of the forest and other Australian industry sectors and is relevant to the conference, particularly the major woodchip and important log export trades.

Late registrations are being accepted. There are generous multiple registration fee discounts available.

To see all details of the program, speakers, venue, registration, sponsorship and newsletters, visit www.dana. co.nz The program also provides time for networking and discussion.

Contact the conference manager Pamela Richards in Melbourne on email: pam@prcc. com.au Inquiries to 64 7 3492764.

Wilderness Society may withdraw support for FT

THE Wilderness Society has said it will withdraw support for international recognition of Forestry Tasmania if a government bill clears Parliament.

The state government is planning to discard Tasmania’s ‘forest peace deal’, brokered after decades of conflict and four years of negotiations.

The Liberal government pledged to tear up the deal during its campaign for election earlier this year. Now only the state’s Upper House stands

in its way, although it appears likely to back the reforms in some form.

Resources Minister Paul Harriss has urged Upper House members to allow the bill to pass quickly. Green groups have been trying to persuade MLCs not to reclassify 400,000 ha of native forest so it can eventually be logged.

Mr Harriss said the land was protected under the deal but would be opened up to logging after six years if the bill passes the Upper House.

2014 AROUND THE CIRCUIT

AUGUST 2014

5-6: MobileTECH 2014: Primary Industries Future. Brisbane.

12-13: Auckland, NZ (www.mobiletech2014.com).

These events will profile the latest mobile tools, technologies and innovations driving the future of primary industries (farming, horticulture, forestry, dairy, meat, wool, fisheries and mining).

MobileTECH 2014 will showcase a wide range of mobile technologies and innovations, including smartphones, tablets, mobile apps, satellite mapping and communications, robotics, aerial drones, remote sensors, electronic tagging, intelligent data, M2M, real-time analytics and cloudbased platforms.

6: Furniture Cabinets Joinery Alliance Forum (held during AWISA 2014), Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Southbank, Brisbane (2pm to 6pm). This is one of a series of industry leaders forums designed to enable the sectors to come together to build on this work and develop strategies that will allow the industry to capitalise on its future and seize opportunities for future growth. Contact Pieter Kreitals on 0412 101 590 or email: peterk@ kreitals.com.au Visit www.awisa. com 6-9: AWISA 2014 exhibition.

Brisbane Convention and exhibition Centre. Displays of panel processing, solid wood and timber machinery, tooling, manufacturing software, plus ancillary products such as dust extraction and materials handling equipment. Opportunity forn the cabinet, kitchen, furniture, joinery, timber, fit-out and panel industries to inspect new equipment.

Inquiries about booking space: email info@awisa.com or call Geoff Holland. Tel: (02) 9918 3661. Fax: (02) 9918 7764. Mob: 0412 361 580.

Email: info@awisa.com 7-8: The Australian Forest and Forest Products Sector: Situation in 2014 and Trends Going Forward.

DANA conference – Bayview Eden Hotel, Melbourne. Presentations on the tree plantation industry

and its trading environment, log production and exports, softwood and hardwood woodchip export trends to major markets and the future outlook; the sawn timber industry – production and direction (including import competition), the potential for wood panel expansion, the domestic pulp and paper sectors and global pulp demand outlook, wood pellet potential; and more. This includes 13 speaker from Australia and 10 high-profile specialists in their fields from overseas – two from China, two from Canada, two from the US and one each from Chile, Finland and New Zealand. Shanghai-based RISI forestry specialist Gavin Hao will provide an extended presentation on North Asian and Indian softwood and woodchip markets, where Australia fits into these markets in 2013 and 2014, and predictions about future demand.

Other speakers include Oliver Lansdell, global pulp specialist; Rodrigo Monreal, solid wood products chief of Arauco, Chile; Matthew Wood, CEO Stora Enso Australia; Russ Taylor, president of WOODMarkets; Peter Barynin, lead economist with Boston USA-based RISI; Peter Zed (Australian sawmilling sector); Simon Dories, general manager, Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia; Ross Hampton, CEO, Forest and Wood Products Australia; Steve Whitley, CEO, Forestry Tasmania.

Full registration details, plus the program, speakers, sponsorship and the online registration can be viewed at prcc.com.au / danamelbourne2014 or contact Pamela Richards at email pam@ prcc.com.au 11-12: DANA conference, Rotorua, NZ. The New Zealand forestry and forest products sector: its situation in 2014 and trends going forward. Novotel Rotorua Hotel, Rotorua. Web: www.prcc.com.au/ danamelbourne2014.

Conference consultant: Pam Richards 61 3 5781 0069.

Email: pam@prcc.com.au

SEPTEMBER

17-18: Wood Innovations 2014: Timber Preservation – Wood Modification – Composite

Products – Rotorua, NZ. 23-24: Melbourne. (www.woodinnovations2014.com).

Changes in new wood treatment formulations, processes and systems, standards, legislation with the focus also on wood plastic composites and modified wood products.

19-20: ForestTECH 2014.

Rotorua, NZ. 25-26: Melbourne. (www.foresttech2014.com).

Remote sensing, field Inventory, forest estate planning.

NOVEMBER

13-14: Engineered Wood Products – From Here to the Future. Australian timber industry seminar.

Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort, Gold Coast. Co-hosted by the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia and Forest and Wood Products Australia. Australian and international speakers. Contact Eileen Newbury, marketing manager, Forest and Wood Products Australia.Tel +61 (3) 9927 3212. Mob: +61 (0) 41931 3163.

Email: eileen.newbury@fwpa.com. au or visit www.fwpa.com.au for registration and accommodation details.

2015 MARCH

25: ForestWorks annual industry conference and dinner in Canberra.

Flagship event for the forest, wood, paper and timber products industries. Joining with the Australian Forest Products Association to co-host the popular networking industry dinner at Parliament House. Conference will look beyond the innovative technologies in industry and focus on the people, exploring how they can help to bring about innovation.

Further details will be announced in the coming months, including the conference theme, speakers and venue. Contact forestworks@ forestworks.com.au

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EVENTS

Tree cheers for timber!

National day plants ideas about value of nature COMMUNITIES, schools and workplaces dipped their hands in soil for National Tree Day on Sunday, July 27, and Schools Tree Day on July 25, planting more than 1.2 million trees.

National Tree Day is Australia’s largest tree-planting and nature care event. Each year more than 200,000 people take part in events at 3000 sites across the country, organised by councils, schools, businesses and communities.

Since Planet Ark launched National Tree Day in 1996, more than three million participants have planted 20 million native trees, shrubs and grasses.

An independent survey commissioned by Planet Ark has found that many Australians clearly value the health and wellbeing benefits of homes, neighbourhoods, workplaces and schools with access to nature.

The research report – Valuing Trees: What is Nature Worth?

– was sponsored by Toyota Australia and showed: • Home buyers are prepared to pay an average of $35,000 extra for a house in a green leafy area than they would for an identical house in a less green area.

• Workers will sacrifice an average of $3674 in salary to be able to connect with nature

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Sydney cricket and soccer player Ellyse Perry, with help from a local youngster, plants trees on National Tree Day in Sydney Park at St Peters.

at work.

• Parents consider green school grounds to be just as important as good academic outcomes.

It also found that having plants in and around the workplace and classroom helps reduce sick leave and stress; boosts productivity and creativity; and filters and cleans the air.

“Trees and plants provide more than just environmental and aesthetic value,” says National Tree Day manager Debbie Agnew.

“The payoffs also include financial benefits such as storm water management and reducing the need for airconditioning, health benefits such as improving air quality,

reducing stress and promoting physical activity, and significant productivity benefits in the workplace.”

Over 20 million native trees and shrubs planted This year National Tree Day’s theme, ‘Get into Nature and Grow’, focused on encouraging people to green up both their indoor and outdoor environments.

“With Australians spending more and more time indoors, it is becoming increasingly important that we find ways to connect with nature in our everyday lives – at work, at home, in our

local neighbourhoods, and at school,” Ms Agnew said.

As well as planting trees and grasses at new sites, participants greened their communities by planting vegetable and bush tucker gardens and visiting former National Tree Day sites to undertake weeding and maintenance.

Individuals were also able to organise personal activities at home with family and friends in backyards, on balconies, or along neighbourhood nature strips or streets.

National Tree Day is organised

by Planet Ark in partnership with Toyota and its dealer network, which provides on the ground support at local community tree planting sites Australia-wide.

“Toyota and our dealers are committed to environmental leadership, and Planet Ark’s National Tree Day is one of the great ways local communities can be environmental leaders too,” divisional manager Brad Cramb said.

“In our 15th year of support, we encourage Australians to engage their green thumbs and start planting the seeds for a greener future.”

To find out more about National Tree Day or Schools Tree Day visit treeday.planetark. org

INDUSTRY NEWS

This is not about ‘picking winners’ From P 3

shaping our competitiveness, but we cannot do it on our own.

Government has a fundamental role in wealth creation because it controls key inputs into growth, for example skills development, tax and competition policy, trade and regulation,” she said.

Governments needed to develop and maintain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of economy at the sector level.

“Every policy should be designed to support and extend Australia’s economic strengths by building on sectors with a comparative advantage and helping others to transition with minimum disruption.

“Government must also pursue a structural reform agenda that builds the innovation infrastructure to support the agility of the Australian economy.

“This is not about ‘picking winners’ or blocking the economic transition that is under way by propping up uncompetitive industries. Nor is it about abandoning an economywide reform agenda.

“It is about deliberate action to support the sectors where we can gain a competitive advantage, and taking a more nuanced and sophisticated view of structural reform.

“Australia cannot afford to be complacent about the need to take control of its national destiny.”

Wood Protection ®

Chain of custody standard up to international best practice

THE revised Australian standard for chain of custody for forest products has been published, ensuring it is up to date and consistent with international best practice.

The revised standard (AS 4707:2014) underpins the tracking of wood or forest products originating from sustainably managed, certified forests through all phases of ownership, transportation and manufacturing to the end consumer.

Sustainably managed forests are certified under the Australian Standard for Sustainable Forest Management (AS 4708:2013).

These two Australian standards form the core of the Australian Forest Certification Scheme (AFCS) managed by Australian Forestry Standard Ltd, which has been endorsed by the Program for Endorsement of Forest Certification.

The revised standard is based on the recently revised PEFC Chain of Custody Standard (PEFC ST 2002:2013) with some modifications to suit Australian circumstances and processes.

“Increasing interest from consumers in where their wood products come from, as well as the requirements of the new illegal logging laws, make this standard a valuable way for businesses in the wood and paper products sectors

Richard Stanton .. valuable way for businesses in the wood and paper products sectors.

to demonstrate their products are sustainable,” AFS national secretary Richard Stanton said.

Increased interest from consumers “It is a voluntary standard for use by any organisation seeking to ensure its customers that the certified wood and forest products they buy are sourced from a certified forest.”

Along with traceability advantages of the standard, the federal government’s illegal logging due diligence test, which comes into effect in November 2014, requires businesses to assess and manage the risk of importing or processing illegally logged timber, or face

prosecution and heavy fines.

By importing or purchasing timber from forests certified under the Australian standard or other PEFC-endorsed standards, businesses can be confident that they will be able to meet the due diligence requirements of the government’s illegal logging laws,” Mr Stanton said.

“Businesses that manufacture, convert or repackage wood from certified forests can become certified under the chain of custody standard to demonstrate the sustainable use of timber along the entire supply chain.

“This requires independent assessment and verification along with supply chain to ensure the product can be tracked back to a certified forest.”

Australian standards are reviewed about every five years to ensure they remain consistent with any changes in technical and operational knowledge and reflect community expectations at both the national and international level. This is the second time that the Australian standard has been reviewed and republished.

The review of the Australian standard for chain of custody of forest products was undertaken by an independent standards reference committee made up of experts and representatives from Cont P 16

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Farmers unlikely to receive lease payments after collapse of Gunns

FARMERS are being told they should stop waiting for tree lease payments of millions of dollars after the collapse of Gunns.

Chief executive of the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association Jan Davis said many farmers and landholders with private plantations on their land should now work out where they stand, as they were unlikely to be paid.

“The biggest challenge for individual landowners is sitting down in the cold, hard, light of day, and working out where they are at themselves, making the decision to rule a line under it, and move on whatever moving on might look like for them individually,” Ms Davis said.

More than 300 landholders in Tasmania and 60 interstate who have Gunns plantations on their land are owed at least $16

million in rent, according to an ABC News report.

They met recently to decide what to do with the plantations but there was uncertainty about their options.

Ms Davis is now indicating that any legal option is unlikely for most, especially the small land holders who have thousands of Gunns trees on their land under leases.

New Forests bought about 100,000 ha of Gunns plantations, but the status of the trees on private land is in doubt.

Ms Davis said there was only between $27 million and $29 million left for creditors and it was not realistic for farmers who entered contracts in good faith to think there was money around.

“They might be owed a lot,

Jan Davis .. farmers must move on.

but there are not a lot of places to get it,” she said.

Farmers believed when they entered tree leases it meant the ownership of the trees reverted to them under certain conditions, and now they are having to pay to buy the trees on their land.

“That’s a really complex

situation,” Ms Davis said.

“Had we thought through the consequences of a possible failure at the time the leases were drawn up, people may have asked for varying conditions.”

The collapse of Gunns has left a lot of conditions in the leases unenforceable.

Ms Davis said she would ask authorities to take Gunns covenants off land with tree leases because they made landowner’s obligations unclear and were an impediment to selling the land.

“Some will have to sell, but can’t, until they get clear title,” she said.

Ms Davis said those who wanted to farm the land again had to put in forest practice plans, and she would ask for those requirements to be waived.

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INDUSTRY TRAINING

Guide raises awareness of safety standards for log loading.

Busy schedules on skills training for ForestWorks

INDUSTRY skills council ForestWorks ISC again supported the Australian Timber Trainers Association annual workshop, held in Tumut, NSW, from July 28 to 30.

ForestWorks facilitated a number of key sessions on supporting innovation in the industry as well as providing an opportunity for consultation on training package projects.

The ATTA Workshop brought together experts and trainers to contribute knowledge, learn, connect and ultimately deliver better training services to the industry. In addition, there were workshop sessions by industry experts and government representatives including Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture Senator Richard Colbeck, who delivered the opening address.

Guides raises awareness of safety standards ForestWorks ISC has partnered with the Institute of Foresters of Australia to produce a range of learning and assessment resources for the Advanced Diploma of Forest Industry Sustainability.

This project has been

overseen by a project steering committee with representatives from enterprises, RTOs and high education to provide oversight and validation for the development work.

Consultation have been undertaken to ensure materials meet the needs of end users and that the content of the materials is accurate.

An assessment framework for FPICOR6201A Manage Sustainability in the Workplace will be available shortly.

Meanwhile, ForestWorks has been working with an industry steering group, including national representatives from Work Health and Safety forums, to develop a guide that will raise awareness of safety standards and best practice operations for load restraint; loading and unloading trucks; and transporting forestry logs and produce. This learner resource has also been developed to support skill sets such as FPISS00027 Forestry Log Truck Driver; and FPISS00028 Forestry Produce Truck Driver The final draft of the log haulage manual has been submitted to the industry steering group for review.

Visit Foresworks ISC at www. forestworks.com.au

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EVENTS

It’s show time! AWISA is here More than 100 exhibitors at Brisbane event

AWISA 2104 opens in Brisbane this week with more than 100 exhibitors presenting the cream of woodworking machinery technology at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

“We couldn’t be happier with the event, which boasts the best of the wood machinery industry in Australian, New Zealand, US, Europe and Asia, backed by a large number of international experts to demonstrate and explain this new technology,” AWISA general manager Geoff Holland said.

“In terms of size, it interesting to note that our top 10 exhibitors occupy on average over 400 sq m of display space each.”

Mr Holland said AWISA 2014 visitors, mostly from throughout Australia and New Zealand, would see a huge range of machinery, hardware, materials,

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hopefully, they will find time to socialise with work colleagues, suppliers – and competitors.”

AWISA 2014, which runs from August 6 to 9, is a trade-only exhibition and admission is free.

All visitors are asked to register at the counters in the foyer prior to admission, but is it preferred that they pre-register on site at www.awisa.com.

Cream of international technology AWISA 2014 is a workplace with woodworking machinery on display and in operation, so in the interest of safety, children over six months of age and under 15 will not be admitted to the exhibition. However, a professionally-run children’s hospitality suite is provided, with activities and entertainment

to suit various age groups.

More than 50 hotels are within 2 km of the venue in the South Bank Parklands venue, immediately adjacent to the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, and in the Brisbane CBD just across the river.

The Lido Group has been appointed to handle visitors’ accommodation which can be booked at www.awisa.com/ hotels.

Visitors arriving at Brisbane airport will find it easy to get to the show. Airtrain stations operate in the domestic and international terminals with a 20-minute service to the city.

Passengers should get off the train at the South Brisbane station. Visit www.awisa.com for details of the special AWISA fare.

The venue has a 1500-car capacity carpark underneath the exhibition halls, with access off Merivale Street, Melbourne Street and Grey Street. Full day parking rate is $26. Should this car park ne full, the nearest is the 800-car capacity Parkland’s undercover carpark with access off Little Stanley Street.

Show times: Wednesday, August 6 – 9 am-6 pm; Thursday, August 7 – 9 am-6 pm; Friday, August 8 – 9 am6 pm; Saturday, August 9 – 9 am-4 pm.

For AWISA 2014 information call (02) 9918 3661.

Growth in building approvals THE underlying strength in building approvals continues and should help sustain growth in residential building despite the 5% seasonally adjusted fall in the building approvals for June,” Master Builders Australia CEO Wilhelm Harnisch said.

“We need to look beyond the monthly volatility in approvals for high-rise apartments, which

saw a fall of 8.4% seasonally of approvals for apartments down from the strong 25 per seasonally adjusted rise in May 2014,” he said.

“The softening of approvals for apartments is not unexpected given the exceptionally strong growth in the first half of this year,” Mr Harnisch said.

ENGINEERED WOOD

Canadian architects created an indoor forest before digital fabrication came of age

Grove of engineered timber trees

THE idea for the grove of timber trees flourishing in the atrium of Credit Valley Hospital’s Carlo Fidani Peel Regional Cancer Centre, in Mississauga, Ontario, grew out of visits by Toronto-based architect Tye Farrow to 30 cancer centres in North America and Europe.

Patients told him they wanted fewer hotel-like amenities and more reasons to feel hopeful.

“We decided to create an environment that appeared to be alive and growing,” says Farrow, a senior partner at Farrow Partnership Architects.

He made a few sketches and foam-core models for the 1068 sq m space before creating a triangular floor plan centered on four sprawling columns comprising Douglas fir glulam members.

The massive engineered timbers curve almost 15 m up to the beams that support the atrium roof. Like trees, the structural columns sprout almost seamlessly into glulam branches that further support the roof frame.

System of concealed connectors

Massive engineered timbers curve almost 15 m up to the beams that support the atrium roof.

Designed in 2003, the project precedes today’s advanced 3D modelling software and fabrication technologies. Early in the design process, Farrow and his team began a steady dialogue with manufacturing and installation partner Timber Cont P 12

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INDUSTRY NEWS

R&D project funding opportunities Expressions of Interest Forest and Wood Products Australia Limited (FWPA) invites the submission of research proposals, including multi-year partnerships, addressing identified industry research priorities.

FWPA is an unlisted public company (limited by guarantee) that provides national, integrated promotion, research and development services for the Australian forest and wood products industry.

As a rural research and development corporation, the Company receives matching funds from the Commonwealth government for its R&D activities.

FWPA is also listed on the Australian Competitive Grants Register and is rated as a Category One R&D funder.

FWPA’s activities are driven by its 5-year strategic plan, annual operating plan and R&D investment plans. Each investment plan provides details of industry outcomes expected from successfully completed projects in addition to guidance regarding the level of available FWPA funding within each priority area.

Total FWPA R&D funding of $10-12 million is potentially available over the next five years.

Preference will be directed towards proposals that strongly align to FWPA’s corporate mission and contain significant levels of co-investment by project partners and collaborators.

Initial expressions of interest that outline areas of interest, key competencies and alignment to FWPA’s investment activities should be submitted to chris.lafferty@fwpa.com.au by close of business, Friday 5th September, 2014.

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Plates were predrilled with holes that aligned with predrilled holes in the glulam faces.

Glulam timbers include more than 708 cub m of Douglas fir From P 11

Systems to detail the complex geometry. Timber Systems modeled and mapped hundreds of joints using Dietrich’s 3D-CAD/CAM software for wood construction.

The original drawings called for external steel connectors.

But Timber Systems president Gary Williams felt that the metal would disrupt the aesthetic.

“Trees,” he notes, “don’t have side plates.” So the Timber Systems team spent hours devising a system of concealed connectors.

The space is is ‘uplifting and natural’ Farrow says the cancer centre had the most intricate wood structure in North America when it opened in 2004. Ten years later, Williams says there has been no need for any maintenance or refinishing of glulam components.

This May, Farrow dropped by to judge for himself. “It looks as good as it did when it opened,” the architect says.

“Maybe even better, thanks to the patina it has picked up.”

Even now, Farrow still hears

from patients and their families, who call the space “uplifting” and “natural”.

The glulam timbers include more than 708 cub m of Douglas fir, the equivalent of 60,000 residential studs. Six different jig settings were used to construct the glulam arches.

Though the reduced amount of steel helped offset the additional design costs, the timber system still required more than 27,215 kg of steel brackets and rods. The plates were predrilled with holes that aligned with predrilled holes in the glulam faces. Steel rods, each 25.5 mm in diameter and ranging in length from 127 mm to 406 mm to 254 mm to 406.5 mm were hammered into the holes, which were then plugged with wood.

Though CAD software was essential for designing the complicated system, Timber Systems had no CNC cutting machines in 2004. Instead, workers mortised the slots and mitered the ends manually, using a bench-mounted chainsaw in the factory.

Timber Systems fabricated the glulam members in eight weeks and installed them in two eight-week phases alongside the steel fabricator.

INDUSTRY NEWS

Growing jobs .. Jimmy Lee of Cintac Timber, PF Olsen Australia managing director Pat Groenhout, and customer Linder Lin of Baiyi Timber Ltd, China, look over operations at the Bathurst terminal.

Bathurst winner in three-year China log export arrangement

INDPENDENT forest manager PF Olsen Australia has commenced a three year-deal for the export of about 175,000 tonnes of timber from the NSW Bathurst region.

The company has engaged Asciano Ltd subsidiaries Pacific National and C3 on an integrated logistics services contract to handle and haul the containerised timber from Bathurst to Port Botany for shipping to China where demand for Australian timber continues to grow.

PF Olsen managing director Pat Groenhout said the project would not only provide employment growth in the Bathurst area but open up new market opportunities for the region’s private plantation owners.

The operation will see expansion opportunities for local harvest and haulage contractors, with C3 providing log handling services in Bathurst with locally-based employees and Pacific National delivering rail haulage services three times a week to Port Botany.

With Patrick Terminals and

Logistics expected to stevedore the majority of the freight, the new contract demonstrates Asciano’s end-to-end logistics capabilities.

C3 Ltd general manager Australia Andrew Wiggill said the new contract illustrated the complementary skills of Asciano’s operating divisions and its ability to integrate services across the supply chain to meet customer needs.

Pacific National’s service delivery manager for the Bathurst region Bob Parton said the contract would enable the reopening of its rail intermodal terminal in Bathurst and create new business and employment opportunities in the region.

“We are hopeful this contract will help spur additional rail volume growth in the area, with Bathurst well located to manage and process increasing coal volumes from Lithgow, along with growth in containerised imports and exports servicing inner-western New South Wale,” he said.

The first shipment of logs is expected to arrive in China within two months.

AWISA 2014 is the international exhibition for the Australian and New Zealand cabinet, joinery, furniture, timber and panel industries.

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PASSAGES

Hundreds salute fine soldier and champion of the timber industry

Life of Brigadier Colin Wilson, 86, celebrated in Brisbane

By JIM BOWDEN

THERE is no security in this life. There is only opportunity. – General Douglas MacArthur.

The words, quoted to me by Colin Wilson in a 1979 interview with the respected timber merchant and Korean War soldier, came back to me when I learned ‘the brigadier’ had died aged 86 at his Gold Coast home at 1345 military time on Sunday, July 29.

Colin David Francis Wilson, OAM RFD ED, who had campaigned in many battles for the timber industry and in army life, fought and lost his last battle with his close family, his daughter and a grandchild at his side.

Hundreds celebrated his life last Friday at the Pacific Golf Club at Carindale – representatives of the timber industry, business associates, bankers, close friends and military chums such as Major General W. B. Digger James AC, AO(Mil), MBE, MC,84, who said a few words at the service, recalling his time in Korea with his mate.

Dr Digger James was platoon commander 1st Royal Australian Regiment in Korea and was awarded the Military Cross after a serious wound in 1952.

Set up as timber broker and builder Colin Wilson started his working life in the timber industry in Brisbane more than 70 years ago, joining James Hardie and Co in 1943.

In 1949, to gain a closer insight into the timber trade and construction industry, he set up as a timber broker and builder.

In 1952, his fondness for army

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It was a model timber parade ground.

Mr Wilson had great faith in the usefulness of trade associations.

“A better knowledge of our products, general goodwill and fellowship flowed from these meetings,” he said.

He held the positions of chairman, Queensland Timber Board, chairman TRADAC, president, QTB timber merchants’ division and chairman of the Queensland Timber Industry Training Council.

Great faith in the usefulness of trade associations

Colin Wilson .. military precision put to good use in the timber industry.

life saw him as an officer with the Australian Regular Army, serving active service with the Royal Australian Regiment 2nd battalion in Korea in 1953.

On his return to Brisbane, he became a colonel and then brigadier in the CMF. Colin Wilson continued his military interests throughout most of his life. He was a former president of the Queensland United Service Club, an active member of Brisbane Legacy and past president, patron and life member of the Australian Light Horse Association.

In 1955, Mr Wilson worked with his father Thomas Wilson, who founded the family business at Dutton Park. For a period, the business was located at Annerley, opposite the Red Bick Hotel, one of Brisbane’s best known landmarks.

In 1962, the yard was relocated to its present site

at Moorooka and the trading name was changed to Wilson Timbers Pty Ltd, now under the management of Mr Wilson’s daughter Susan and her husband Nigel Shaw.

The Wilson family entered the timber business in 1928 when Thomas Wilson joined Brett and Co, 11 years later becoming a private timber agent. After World War 2, he restarted timber trading as a broker and enjoyed a long association with the Straker family and its timber and sawmilling operations at Cooran.

Colin Wilson based his timber business on product knowledge, public relations, product presentation, responsible staff, and prompt and courteous service.

Our visits to Wilson Timbers always impressed. Every stick of timber was on parade, ready for inspection and selection.

He was a foundation member of Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Club 218, formed in 1963, and with the Hoo-Hoo number 77413, was HHI Jurisdiction IV president (1976-77).

Every mindful of his “citizens’ duty”, Mr Wilson never hesitated to give generously of his time to education, charity and sport.

Sport for him was a ‘must’ and in the early days it was tennis. His most memorable performance was being “belted”

by Wimbledon champion and World No.1 amateur champion Frank Sedgman in Toowoomba in 1947.

Golf at the Queensland Pacific Club claimed his later leisure hours.

Mr Wilson lost his adored wife Diana in 2006, a loss from which he never fully recovered.

He is survived by his daughter Susan, her husband Nigel, and three grandchildren Haley, Grace and David.

Colin Wilson is saluted as a fine soldier, a visionary and a great champion of the timber industry.

INTERNATIONAL FOCUS

A Hodgkiss to build a dream on

Glaswegian ‘turns’ to wood for Games trophies GLASGOW-based Paul Hodgkiss used to be a mildmannered designer, but then he discovered wood could be exuberant, colourful and bursting with character, so he built on a dream.

“When I started out in the eighties I used to be a lot more practical, designing and building furniture that was polite,” he said.

“I didn’t allow myself any indulgence, but everything changed when I started using home-grown timbers. I guess it was after the Great Storm of 1987 [a violent extra-tropical cyclone that saw hurricaneforce winds fell trees across the northern British Isles].

“I visited a sawmill which had opened in Dumfresshire and found all sorts of slabs of wood just lying around. Lots of elm with knots and lumps – the sort of wood that was considered useless.

Restoring the beauty of wood Hodgkiss let loose his urge for indulgence and turned his unpromising pile of timber into highly decorative, beautifully wrought pieces of furniture and sculptures.

He describes his work as: “not just about making furniture; it’s about restoring the beauty of wood, like polishing a diamond and then displaying it in the perfect mount”.

Now he has ‘turned’ this indulgence to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow where he won the contract to design and craft the wooden quaiches, which have been presented to every medal winner, and the podiums they stand on to receive them.

A quaich is a small, shallow, two-handled drinking cup, or loving cup which has a rich

Putting wood on a pedestal .. Paul Hodgkiss with the model timber podium he created for the Commonwealth Games.

heritage in Scotland, with the earliest written reference dating from 1546. The earliest quaichs were made from a single piece of wood turned on a lathe.

Handles, called ‘lugs’, were sometimes covered with silver.

But they have come to symbolise love and friendship within the Commonwealth Games movement. Each bowl

has a gold, silver or bronze logo implanted inside.

For every project, Paul Hodgkiss chooses wood for its colour, pattern and shape and is responsible for all prototyping.

The pieces are then made up in his three-man workshop. For the Games quaich he chose Scots elm (Ulmus glabra).

Working mostly in Scotland,

Raising wood to new heights .. England’s Alistair Brownlee with his elm quaich after he won a gold medal in the men’s triathlon at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

his projects have included fitting out a well-known chain of restaurants, bars and visitor centres for the Loch Lomond park authority. He is also securing healthy sales of oneoff pieces through his homebased Cathcart showroom, which is filled with vast thrones, wavy-edged tables and rustic cupboards and shelves.

The furniture, bars, stair rails and sculptures in wild swirling shapes of wood and twisted metal draw their inspiration from an odd trio of sources. As his inspiration, Hodgkiss names Catalan architect Gaudi, David Bowie and the Art Nouveau movement.

It’s like polishing a diamond “Art nouveau has always been a fascination for me. Even as a child I loved those swirling and intertwining patterns and that’s suddenly what I could see again in the home-grown elm, sycamore, oak and beech,” he said.

However, Hodgkiss doesn’t intend to limit himself to this nouveau niche. He has ventured in a new direction with the just-completed work on the successful new restaurant Rococo in Glasgow, frequented

by Commonwealth Games competitors and visitor. “‘Here I’ve made all the furniture, serving units, doors and screens in North American black walnut, an amazing wood with massive knots and plenty of character grain. But the look is ethnic, simple and primitive.

It was good to try something else, it could be a new way ahead.”

Editor’s note: At the close of Day 8 of the Commonwealth Games, Australia had won 36 gold, 36 silver and 41 bronze for a total of 113 medals.

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EVENTS

All set for gala awards night Finalists selected for TABMA presentations

JUDGING has almost been finalised for TABMA’S 2014 Queensland Timber Industry Awards.

Awards will be presented at a gala industry evening at Brisbane’ Victoria Park Function Centre on October 17.

TABMA Queensland manager Alicia Oelkers said the prestigious industry event would showcase and recognise the industry’s finest. She said there were still opportunities for sponsorships.

Finalists selected for the awards include: Best Timber Merchant: Lindsay Meyers; Tradeware Building Supplies; 5 Star Timbers Best Building Materials Centre: Porters Home and Building Centre; Langs Building Supplies; Versace Timbers; Bretts Home Timber & Hardware.

Best Timber Wholesale Operation: Pacific Wood Products; Simmonds Lumber;

Enjoying the 2012 Queensland Timber Industry Awards night .. women in timber and forestry Mia Cassidy, HQ Plantations, Jacinta Colley, Simmonds Lumber, Jenni Day, Versace Timbers, and Michelle Everingham, HQ Plantations.

Tilling (Queensland); T-Pac Lumber; ITI (Qld).

Best Frame and Truss Operation: Redland Bay Roof Trusses; Howard & Son; Langs Building Supplies; Northside Trusses & Frames.

Best Timber Manufacturing Operation: Pacific Wood

Products; Garde Timber; Timbeck Architectural; Lindsay Meyers.

Best Sawmilling Operation: Parkside; Hyne; Mareeba Sawmill; Carter Holt Harvey Most Innovative Operation: Deckmaster; Tradeware Building Supplies; Timbeck Architectural;

Tilling (Qld); Garde Timbers Best Wholesale Sales Representative: Jacinta Colley, Simmonds Lumber; Mel Conduit, Parkside Timbers; Debbie Payne, Tilling; Troy Bennett, Asian Pacific Timber Marketing.

Recognising Women in Forest and Timber Industry: Jacinta Colley, Simmonds Lumber; Casey Holmes, 5 Star Timbers; Dee Atkinson, Tilling Timber; Jenni Day, Versace Timbers Host Employer of the Year: Tritech Refrigeration; 5 Star Timbers; Hudsons Building Supplies; Woodhouse Timber Co Trainee and Apprentice of the Year: Shane Sitek, Mitek; Anita Day, Trussmaster; James Barron, Stacks Building Supplies; Quinton Harris, Hudson’s Building Supplies; Karl Bennett, M Moreton Bay Air-conditioning; Daniel Kitto, Moreton Bay Airconditioning.

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PLANTATIONS

A new plantation of Indian sandalwood trees in the Northern Territory. – Photo by Matt Brann.

A ‘tree change’ for sandalwood plantations

WESTERN Australian company Tropical Forestry Services is planting more than 1400 ha of Indian sandalwood in the Northern Territory this year.

The trees are being planted on Midway Station in the Douglas Daly (515 ha) and also on TFS properties near Katherine (900 ha).

The plantings this year look distinctly different to any other carried out by TFS, which has been planting sandalwood in Australia’s tropical north since 1999.

This year, each sandalwood

tree, along with host trees, is planted within a cardboard, biodegradable tree-guard, which is held in place by two bamboo sticks.

“This is a new initiative by us,” says Nick Common, TFS’ regional manager for the Northern Territory.

“Every single seedling we do gets an individual tree-guard or spray-guard, which allows us to spray herbicides along that tree line.

“It means less competition from the weeds, but we’re also finding other benefits.

“It’s promoting faster growth because of the environment created inside the guard.

The guard also protects [the seedling] against wind.”

The new planting method means TFS will use two million tree-guards and four million bamboo sticks in this year’s Northern Territory program.

The planting and positioning of the tree-guards is all done by hand; TFS has had a team of around 70 people involved in the Midway Station plantings.

“This [planting method] is the way of the future for us,” Mr

Common said.

“The benefits we’re already seeing from them definitely outweigh the cost, so this will definitely become a normal procedure from now on.”

TFS manages the largest area of Indian sandalwood plantations in the world, with projects in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.

It conducted its first commercial harvest of Indian sandalwood in September last year.

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MARKETING MANAGER Company/Location: Ta Ann Tasmania

Jobs Description: Ta Ann Tasmania, the leading Tasmanian veneer producer with operations in Hobart, Huon and Smithton invites applications for the position of Marketing Manager from suitably qualified and committed professionals for its soon to be completed Smithton Plywood Mill.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing strategies and implementing profitable business activities to achieve operating and financial objectives. He or she will have extensive experience in all aspects of marketing including improving product marketability and identifying new market opportunities. It is desirable that the candidate has knowledge or experience in the timber product industry.

The key duties and responsibilities include: • Developing effective marketing and sales plans for the Australian market; • Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships; • Identifying and capitalising on new marketing opportunities; • Improving on product quality through product research and development with key stakeholders and technical experts in the field.

• Providing feedback and guidance to Mill Production staff on customer needs and expectation • Ensuring effective communication with Senior Management and Mill Management staff through recommending appropriate structures and systems.

The role will involve regular intrastate and interstate travel.

The remuneration package offered will reflect the successful applicant’s qualifications and experience.

Applicants must already be eligible to work in Australia.

Apply, in confidence, by sending your application letter and CV to: General Manager Ta Ann Tasmania P/L 150, Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania 7000 or email: hr@taanntas.com Applications will be accepted until COB: Friday15th August 2014 For more info contact: General Manager E-mail: hr@taanntas.com Applications close: Friday 15 August 2014.

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ON THE ROAD

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TENDER DEADLINE: 2:00pm NZST on Thursday 7th August 2014 Inspections Are available by appointment only with the Project Manager below. These assets are located at 34 Carncross Street, Mosgiel and 1 Lowery Street, Milton, Canterbury, NZ Project Manager: Lance Campbell, M: +64 21 714 178, P: +64 9 477 0206, E: lance.campbell@grays.co.nz

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