Timber & Forestry News Issue 338

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ISSUE 338 | October 6, 2014

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CHH sawmill rises quickly from ashes

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Caboolture likely to re-start softwood The operations just a few weeks after fire NATIONAL

WHERE there’s smoke there’s fire – unconfirmed reports suggest Carter Holt Harvey’s Caboolture softwood sawmill will re-open within a matter of weeks, recovering from a blaze on September 28 that ignited a shed filled with sawdust used to fuel boilers. CHH management was unavailable for comment on this development. However, logging contractors have been advised to stand by and be ready to resume operations. The start-up decision, if confirmed, will be good news for the Queensland timber industry and the housing sector, keeping the state’s second largest sawmill in production and providing solid competition in the market in the state’s southeast. Fire crews, called to the mill at Henzell Road

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about 3.30pm on Sunday, September 28, arrived to see smoke billowing from the top of a large shed. They brought the blaze under control about 5 pm and remained on to extinguish the fire. A fire service spokesman said the flammable material made extinguishing the fire completely very difficult. “Anywhere there’s a large stockpile of material such as sawdust there’s going to be issues with ventilation and getting access to the deepest Cont P 8

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