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Ready to jump? Engineered wood industry has the goods for a return to better economic conditions THE timber industry must focus on preparing for an inevitable upturn in the economy or risk losing market share, says Simon Dorries, general manager of the Engineered Woods Products Association of Australasia. “The industry must be ready to act on competitive products, including timber imports; as they also emerge from the downturn they won’t be putting as much pressure on our markets,” he said. “Forest and wood products businesses that are agile and prepared for the next cycle will steal the march on their competitors.” The EWPAA held its annual general meeting on the Gold Coast last week, which followed the association’s conference and dinner attended by more
Ben Sawley .. engineered wood prepared for upturn in economy.
than 100 members and special guests (pictures Page 4 and 10). This meeting saw the election of a new president for the EWPAA, Ben Sawley. He succeeds Rene
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de Vries of Carter Holt Harvey. “The conference reflected a powerful, united association that has grown and strengthened with the merger earlier this year of the EWPAA and the Australian Wood Panels Association,” Mr Sawley said. “The association now speaks for a notable proportion of the timber industry. The EWPAA represents plywood, LVL, particleboard and MDF manufacturers and services an industry in Australia and New Zealand valued at well over $1 billion, supporting more than 5000 jobs on both sides of the Tasman.” Mr Sawley, who is general manger of Boral Timber’s plywood division, said the Cont Page 2
This Issue • National winner of Australian Timber Design Awards • Forestry solution to emissions from agriculture sector
EWPAA Trophy goes to Tasmania • John Mc Namara elected chairman of Timber Quennsland • AFG forms partnership with TreeSmart • TDA’s timber office fit-out a ‘labour of love’ • Four new Gottstein Fellowships
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industry news
New, innovative engineered wood technology answer to competition from wood alternatives From Page 1
development of new and insightful engineered wood product solutions was the Australian industry’s answer to competition from wood alternatives. “These products will give us a smoother – and safer – ride in the downturn as well as positioning Australian businesses well for the inevitable industry rebound,” he said. “Also, the engineered wood panels industry is well placed to be a part of the climate change solution, through carbon sequestration in wood fibre. The more engineered
wood panels can displace high embodied energy panels such as steel and aluminium, the less carbon will be released to the atmosphere and the more carbon will be locked into wood panels.” Mr Sawley said through product innovation, unrivalled service and support, and the strictest adherence to Australasian building codes and compliance, the Australasian engineered wood industry was well placed for the future. “EWPAA members have continuously, over a long history, provided the building and construction sectors with a ‘gold standard’ for
EWPAA outgoing president Rene de Vries makes a presentation to David Thurlow, who will step down on December 31 after 11½ years as technical director of the Australian Woods Panels Test Centre Association. Mr Thurlow joined AWP after 10 years as technical quality assurance manger at Laminex Industries.
certified products, a standard unmatched by overseas competitors,” he said. An industry-driven organisation, the EWPAA remains fiercely independent of government support and is voluntarily funded by veneer, plywood, LVL and wood panels manufacturers in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. The EWPAA maintains two NATA-accredited laboratories – to test for formaldehyde emissions and for a full range of structural and physical properties. Bond quality from all member plywood and LVL mills is tested daily by the EWPAA laboratories with
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The John Hancock Award (President’s Prize) was won by Stefan Krengle, Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts, Tokoroa, NZ. Accepting the award on Stefan’s behalf is Ian Potter, CHH site manager at Tokoroa. The presentation is made by Simon Dorries, EWPAA general manger, and Rene de Vries, outgoing EWPAA president.
FOREST INDUSTRIES NATIONAL CONFERENCE & LIAISON DINNER Canberra -24-25 November 2009
other properties tested on a monthly basis. The schemes are accredited by the Joint Accreditation System of Australian and New Zealand (JAS-ANZ). EWPAA has initiated a national consumer campaign to identify and promote low-emission Australasian products, an initiative supported by the Housing Industry Association and the Furniture Industry Association of Australia. Thousands of adhesive labels have been distributed to wood panel suppliers and joinery component producers carrying
Forest Futures
INNOVATION | JOBS | INVESTMENT 2009 Forest Industries Conference
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EWPAA awards members for achievement From Page 2
a ‘piece of mind’ assurance that EWPAA members’ engineered wood and panel products have been independently tested and certified for low emission. EWPAA carries out laboratory tests for formaldehyde emissions from all certified products manufactured in the Australasian region. All EWPAAcertified structural plywood and Type A bond exterior plywood have an emission class of E0 with a maximum emission of 0.50mg/L. In fact, the average formaldehyde emission for all structural and Type A exterior plywood products produced by EWPAA certified mills is only 0.14mg/L or one-third the permitted level and approximate to the natural formaldehyde emission from timber. Plywood, particleboard and medium density fibreboard (MDF) stamped with the PAAEWPAA grade mark is the
best guarantee of a safe and dependable product. All these products have emissions class E0 or E1 and are certified suitable for use in all residential and commercial applications. David Henderson of D&R Henderson Pty Ltd, Windsor, NSW, was elected vicepresident of EWPAA at the AGM and Ron Cortis of Brown Wood Panels Pty Ltd, Camden Park, SA, was elected treasurer. The EWPAA conference was the venue for the announcement of the winners of the national Australian Timber Design Awards (see Pages 8, 9). During the conference dinner, EWPAA general manger Simon Dorries and outgoing president Rene de Vries presented the association’s annual awards for achievement and paid tribute to David Thurlow who is stepping down after 11½ as technical director of the AWPA
Deeon Otto of Australian Timbers Pty Ltd, Trinity Gardens, SA, son of the late Con Otto, presents the Con Otto Award (open to manufacturing members of EWPAA) to Gary Holmes, sales and marketing manager, Austral Plywoods, Brisbane, while outgoing EWPAA president Rene de Vries looks on.
Test Centre Association at West Burleigh. EWPAA award winners: John Hancock Award (President’s Prize): Stefan Krengle, Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts, Tokoroa, NZ. Con Otto Award
(manufacturing members of EWPAA): Gary Holmes, Austral Plywoods, Brisbane. EWPAA Distributors Award: Jim Zacharin, Cabinet Timbers Pty Ltd, Victoria.
Rene de Vries presents a flower arrangement to Vicki Roberts of EWPAA in appreciation of her long and dedicated service to the association and its members.
Simon Dorries, general manager, EWPAA, and Rene de Vries, outgoing EWPAA president, present the EWPAA Distributor’s Award to Jim Zacharin, Cabinet Timbers Pty Ltd, Victoria.
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EWPAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Hexion Specialty Chemicals representatives Gary Byrom commercial manager Australasia, Mt Maunganui, NZ, and Mark Nowicki, technical accounts manager, Deer Park, Vic, are welcomed by conference coordinator Vicki Roberts of EWPAA. EWPAA general manager Simon Dorries (centre) chats with Fred Lane, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, and Brendan Smith, assistant mill manger, Juken New Zealand, Gisborne, NZ.
More pictures, Page 10 Andrew Hripko, marketing manager, The Laminex Group, Doncaster, Vic, catches up with Gary Holmes of Austral Plywoods, Brisbane.
Victor Bendevski, Australian Panel Products, and Nick Youngman of Boral Plywood.
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events
WHAT’S ON?
24-25: Forest Futures: Innovation. Jobs. Investment. 2009 Forest Industries National Conference and Liaison Dinner – Canberra. Conference registration and program available from: www.forestworks.com.au
Contact: Karen Johnston at TABMA Queensland. Tel: (07) 3254 3155. Email: karen@tabma.com.au 21: World Forestry Day 22: World Water Day
APRIL 2010
27: Construction Skills Queensland training excellence awards and dinner. Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. Tickets $130 (including gst) or $1200 for a table of 10. Contact Leanne Baker or Luke Burrows at PPR. Tel: (07) 3309 4748 or 0416 764 424 or (07) 3309 4714 or 0410 620 202. Email: lbaker@ppr.com.au or lburrows@ppr.com.au Tickets available until November 6. Visit: www.csq.org.au/awards
18-21: APPITA Annual Conference and Exhibition/Pan Pacific Conference Melbourne. www.appita.com.au
DECEMBER 09
24-25: Wood Supply Chain Optimisation 2010, Rotorua, NZ. www.vafi.org.au
4: Bioenergy: Linking Biomass and Technology Conference, Taupo, NZ. Tel: Lesley Caudwell +64 7 343 5846 or email Lesley. caudwell@scionresearch.com 8-10: Bioenergy Australia 2009. Radisson Resort Gold Coast. Technical tour on December 8. Contact: Steve Schuck, Bioenergy Australia manager on (02) 9416 9246. Email: sschuck@bigpond.net.au
february 2010 3-5: Australian International Furniture Fair Sydney Exhibition Centre, Sydney, NSW www.aiff. net.au
MARCH 2010 2-3: National Outlook Conference (ABARE) Canberra, ACT. www.abare.gov.au 5-17: Industry bus tour of Northern New South Wales.
MAY 2010 19-20: Wood Supply Chain Optimisation 2010, Bayview Eden,Melbourne, 6 Queens Road, Melbourne. www.vafi.org.au 21-23: Timber and Working with Wood Expo, Brisbane Showgrounds, Fortitude Valley.
JUNE 2010 3-4: AFCA Conference and Trade Expo, Novotel Resort, Coffs Harbor, NSW. www.afca.asn.au
SEPTEMBER 2010
3-5: Canberra Timber & Working With Wood Expo, Exhibition Park in Canberra. Contact: (02) 9974 1393. Fax: (02)9974 3426 Email: info@eee.net.au 6-12: Landcare Week. www.landcareonline.com
15-16: Wood Manufacturing 2010 Profitable Wood Manufacturing - Tooling Technology & Design, Melbourne. 20-21: Wood Manufacturing 2010 Profitable Wood Manufacturing - Tooling Technology & Design Rotorua, NZ.
OCTOBER 2010 10-13: Australian Forest Growers national conference, Mount Gambier, SA. Chief executive Warwick Ragg. Contact national office: (02) 6162 9000.
18-20: Timber and Working with Wood Expo, Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney.
JULY 2010
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14-18: Interforest 2010 Trade Fair for Forestry Technology Munich, Germany. www.interfrost.de
NOVEMBER 2010
17-19: ForestTECH 2010 Tools & Technologies to Improve Forest Planning & Operations, Rotorua, NZ. 22-24: ForestTECH 2010 Tools & Technologies to Improve Forest Planning & Operations, Albury, NSW.
2009
AUGUST 2010
25-28: International Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Supply Fair (IWF) 2010 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. www.iwfatlanta.com
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The National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) is striving for an ecologically sustainable Australian society achieved through dynamic, internationally competitive forest industries.
8-10: AFAC bushfire CRC annual conference. Darwin Convention Centre Australia. www.afac10.or
15-17: Melbourne Timber and Working with Wood Expo, Melbourne Showground, Melbourne. Contact: (02) 9974 1393. Fax: (02)9974 3426
26-27: Wood Energy 2010 (World Reducing Energy Costs & Improving Energy Efficiencies) Melbourne.
SUSTAINABLE. RESPONSIBLE.
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NAFI’s mission is to represent the interests of members by promoting the environmental sustainability and the prosperity of Australian forest industries. National Association of Forest Industries Ltd (Est. 1987) PO Box 239, Deakin ACT 2600 Tel: (02) 6285 3833. Fax: (02) 6285 3855 Web: www.nafi.com.au
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industry news
AFG partnership with TreeSmart on carbon trading over Internet THE Australian Forest Growers web-based market portal for wood and wood products – MarkeTree – is now live. The website has been specifically designed to link sellers of timber and wood products to buyers and can be accessed at www.marketree. com.au The underlying logic is that if producers of timber and wood products can post their products on the world-wide web then buyers can view their products and then seek to complete a sale through direct communications (seller to buyer) outside the website. For the first 12 months, up to November 30 next year, AFG members will have free access to MarkeTree, Members will shortly receive a letter outlining the process for AFG member registration. “MarkeTree is an exciting concept that seeks to fulfil a recognised difficulty for particularly small growers,” AFG chief executive Warwick Ragg said. “Buyers of timber and wood products are encouraged to use MarkeTree as another mechanism for purchasing materials.” Mr Ragg said many forest growers were becoming interested in trading the carbon sequestered in their growing
Warwick Ragg .. partnership with TreeSmart.
trees. AFG had entered a partnership with TreeSmart – AFG-TreeSmart – and this service could be accessed by way of the MarkeTree website. MarkeTree also allows for the listing of standing forests, biophysical assets, processed wood products and other forest products. “Additionally, there are links to our commercial partners; capacity to advertise; an Industry-connect section for service providers to the industry; and a trading post for forest equipment. MarkeTree was developed with funding support from the federal Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries.
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Forestry solution to emissions from agriculture sector
Forest industry well placed to assist rural sector in the transition to lower emissions.
THE Federal Government’s decision to exempt agriculture, Australia’s second biggest emitting sector, from the CPRS will mean the economy will have to find ways to cover the 90 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted by the sector each year if it is to achieve its long-term emissions targets. “Forestry, Australia’s only carbon positive industry, is not exempt from the CPRS and is ready to play a big role in abating the emissions from its land sector neighbours as well as other sectors in the economy,” the chief executive of the National Association of Forest Industries Allan Hansard said. “The wood products we derive from sustainably managed forests and plantations are renewable and store carbon for long periods of time. In addition, the energy we can make from the wood waste from our sustainable operations is renewable and can replace energy made from fossil fuels. “But we need some new thinking
on this by the Government and the Opposition in relation to how forestry is recognised by climate change policy.” NAFI estimates that the forest industries could abate around 20% of the economy’s carbon emissions by 2020. This would go a long way to helping the economy cover the additional emissions burden from leaving agriculture out of the CPRS. “We understand the situation the agricultural sector is in,” Mr Hansard said. “Having to reduce emissions either through reductions in farming activities or by buying carbon credits rather than being able to offset their emissions through their own abatement approaches, such as increasing soil carbon, would have added significantly to their cost of production. “However, because of the uncertainty of the science and accounting behind these approaches, it may be years, or even decades before farmers can fully pursue these options for reducing carbon emissions
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from their production activities. This is where the forest industry is well placed to step up and meet the additional emissions challenge we face now and assist the rural sector in the transition to a lower emissions future.” Mr Hansard said there was a broad range of tree planting and forestry activities that could be undertaken on agricultural land to increase carbon storage in vegetation and enhance overall farm productivity and amenity, such as provision of shade and shelter for livestock and soil and water conservation. In addition, the agricultural sector as well as the whole economy would benefit from many of the forest industry initiatives, especially on
afforestation, bioenergy and the production of biochar. “These initiatives not only soak up and lock up carbon but they create much needed jobs in rural and regional Australia. We are leading the way and can assist farmers in being able to also take advantage of these initiatives,” Mr Hansard said. “There is now a renewed urgency for the Government to recognise and seek the full benefits our sustainably managed forests and plantations can deliver in addressing Australia’s carbon emissions challenge. We are ready to work constructively with the Government, the Opposition parties, the agricultural sector and other sectors of our economy to achieve these outcomes.”
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AUSTRALIAN TIMBER DESIGN AWARDS
Cream of nation’s designs in timber impressed judges AN all-timber structure that memorialises the tree under which, so legend has it, the Australian Labor Party was founded in 1891, has been awarded the grand prize in the 2009 Australian Timber Design Awards. The Tree of Knowledge is made up of more than 4900 individual timber members all of which are Forest Stewardship Certified (guaranteed sustainable, renewable or recycled). The entry was selected from regional award winners in all states. The awards were announced last Monday during the annual conference dinner of the Engineered Woods Products Association of Australasia at the Gold Coast International Hotel, Surfers Paradise. Accepting the award were Michael Lavery of m3 architecture, Brisbane, and Brian Hooper of Hooper Architects, Yeppoon, a coastal resort town in Central Queensland (architects in association). More than 100 EWPAA members and special guests attended the dinner which followed the association’s annual conference. Award presentations included the EWPAA Geoffrey Sanderson Trophy for Best Use of Plywood, LVL and Wood Panels. The winners for the Melbourne Recital Centre Michael and Kathy Vos of Vos Construction and Joinery, Hobart, along with joinery manager Tim Rumney, were at the dinner to receive the trophy from EWPAA general manager Simon Dorries. The trophy recognises the service given to the industry by a Geoffrey Sanderson who was president of the Plywood
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Association of Australasia (PAA) in 1988-89 and 1998-2003. The trophy, on an LVL base, has a length of 6 mm laminated veneer running right through it to highlight what can be achieved with plywood laminates. The creator, master wood craftsman Robert Dunlop, threaded a “signature” strip of timber – a piece of river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) taken from a log drag-lined from the Murray River near Euchuca. The wood was carbon-dated by CSIRO to be more than 7000 years old. The supreme national award winner, the Barcaldine memorial, consists of a dead, preserved ghost gum tree at the heart of a square frame. Logs hang from the ceiling of the frame in imitation of the canopy of a tree, and charcoaled external timbers create a ‘veil’ around the dead tree. Accepting the supreme award, Michael Lavery and Ben Vielle of m3architecture paid tribute to Colin MacKenzie, timber application and use manger, Timber Queensland, who assisted with specifications for the project and Michael Kennedy of Kennedy’s Classic Aged Timbers who graded the recycled timbers. The judging panel remarked on the outstanding use of timber, workmanship, structure and innovation in all entries that reached the regional winners’ circle. “But selecting the best from regional winners for the national prizes was no easy task for the judges,” chief executive of the Timber Development Association Andrew Dunn said at the presentations. Cont Page 9
Chief executive of the Timber Development Association Andrew Dunn (left) presents the grand prize in the 2009 Australian Timber Design Awards for the Tree of Knowledge structure at Barcaldine in central Queensland to Michael Lavery and Ben Vielle of m3 architecture, Brisbane, and Brian Hooper, Yeppoon (architects in association). The presentation was made on November 16 at a gala dinner and awards evening on the Gold Coast during the EWPAA annual conference.
Simon Dorries, general manager, Engineered Woods Products Association of Australasia (second from left) presents the EWPAA Geoffery Sanderson Trophy to Tim Rumney and Michael Vos of Vos Constructions and Joinery, Hobart, while Andrew Dunn, chief executive, Timber Development Association, looks on. The award, presented for the Melbourne Recital Centre, was for Best Use of Plywood Panels.
Enjoying the EWPAA dinner evening and awards presentations are Cecilie and Neal Weston of Zenith Timber Industries, Browns Plains, and Dr Harry Greaves and Sandra Greaves of Melbourne.
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Record entries for 10th anniversary of design competition From Page 8
“This 10th anniversary of the awards turned out to be our biggest year to date, with more entries submitted than in any previous year.” Mr Dunn attributed the success of the awards this year to primary sponsorship from the Wood Naturally Better campaign. Contributing additional sponsorship were the Australian Forestry Standard,
Boral Timber, Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia, Crowther-Blayne, the Decorative Wood Veneers Association, Design Pine, the Engineered Woods Products Association of Australasia, Forest and Wood Products Australia, Hyne, the NSW Department of Primary Industries, Timbeck Cedar Products, Wespine, and the Western Red Cedar Exporters Association.
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Peter Ripikoi, specification manager, Boral Timber, Brisbane (right) with Darryl and Rod Sharp of Sharp Plywood, Wacol.
Clarissa Brandt, communications manager, Timber Queensland, Brisbane, with Andrew Dunn, chief executive, Timber Development Association (NSW), Sydney.
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EWPAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Neil Evans, timber standards manager, Forest and Wood Products Australia, Ric Sinclair, managing director, FWPA, and David Ridley, community and resource manager, Ta Ann Tasmania Pty Ltd, Hobart
Steve Mitchell, sustainability program manger, Timber Development Association, Sydney, and David Chapman, account manager, Boral Plywood, North Ipswich. Andrew McNaugh, technical manger, EWPAA, Jim King, Australian Wood Panels Association test centre, and Ewan Brown, EWPAA quality control officer.
Consultants and colleagues .. Frank Moretti and Dr Harry Greaves, joint chairmen of the EWPAA Quality Control Scheme. Since the merger of EWPAA and the Australian Wood Panels Association and the joining together of the respective QC schemes, Frank (partricleboard and MDF) and Harry (plywood and LVL), in tandem, will share responsibilities of the combined QC schemes.
Rene de Vries, president, EWPAA (right) confers with Neil Burgess and Jim Biden of Big River Timbers, Grafton, NSW.
More conference reports next issue Ready for another conference session .. Michael Hartman, chief executive, ForestWorks, Melbourne (left), and Amy Lan, Dr How Sing and David Ridley of Ta Ann Tasmania.
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Carbon markets, tree genetics among 2010 J.W. Gottstein Fellowship studies
Dr James Bulinski
Dr Milos Ivkovic
Dr Washington Gapare
Dr Jim O’Hehir
STUDIES of the carbon market and plantation ‘inbreeding’ in the US, tree genetics in France and resource management in South Africa are subjects for the 2010 Gottstein Fellowships. The fellowships were announced last week by the chairman of the J.W. Gottstein Memorial Trust Peter Gunnersen. Recipients are: Dr James Bulinski, a director and manager of carbon innovation with CO2 Australia, based in Melbourne. Dr Bulinski will investigate the rapidlydeveloping US carbon market, including existing voluntary markets and the emerging mandatory compliance market. An impetus for the project is the recent successful passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, potentially creating a substantial demand for Australian forest carbon. A key objective of the project is to identify practical pathways for Australian forest managers to take advantage of such opportunities. Dr Milos Ivkovic, a senior research scientist with CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra. Dr Ivkovic will visit the Genetic Improvement and Physiology of Forest Trees unit within the INRA laboratories and their field sites in France to address a range of issues in silviculture and wood quality relating to tree breeding. He will examine the effect
of climate on tree ring wood properties, the effect of heatwaves on tree mortality and its correlation with ring width and/or density. He will also investigate genotype-bygrowth season interactions and implications for genetic selection and plantation management, and the consequences for softwood plantation productivity and profitability. Dr Washington Gapare, a quantitative geneticist with CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra. He will study advanced methods to control inbreeding in radiata pine plantations in the US. He will also visit CAMCORE at North Carolina State University in Raleigh where he plans to set up a flexible method Orchard Plan that allocates individual genotypes in ex situ conservation plantations to minimise inbreeding. The Orchard Plan will have immediate applications in breeding, quality seed production, and the establishment of forest tree ex situ plantations. Dr Jim O’Hehir, executive general manager, planning and development, ForestrySA, Mt Gambier will travel to South Africa to study the latest developments in precision forestry globally. He will also address issues in timber resource management, specifically estate growth and
yield regulation, including log product prediction, and review scientific and policy developments relating to plantations and water use. Also on the itinerary is a visit major South Africa forestry organisations to review the application of areas of major significance to the forest growing and processing
industry in Australia. Further information about the Gottstein Fellowships should be directed to: A. F. A. Wallis, Secretary, J. W. Gottstein Memorial Trust, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, Vic 3169. Tel: (03) 9545 2209. Fax: (03) 9545 2139. Email: secretary@ gottsteintrust.org
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TIMBER DESIGN
Timber office fit-out formidable task, but it became labour of love for Tony THE new Sydney office of the Timber Development Association (NSW), which coordinates the Australian Timber Design Awards, has all the ingredients to be an awards contender itself next year. A spectacular fit-out of TDA’s new sixth-level office at 486 Pacific Highway, St Leonards, is drawing high praise from visitors. TDA, which has been the industry’s information hub for students, teachers, specifiers and users of timber for more than 50 years, shifted from its old address at York Street in Sydney to St Leonards on Sydney’s smart lower north shore in early November. Renovation of the new offices proved a hard labour of love for TDA structural engineer Austrian-born Tony Walther who braced up to a formidable fit-out task that had to be completed in just a few days. Prior to the on-site renovation, Tony took his design drawings and materials to the Gosford workshop of Bavarian carpenter Joseph Moser. They spent 21 days non-stop building walls and dividers, chatting away in German. “Joseph gave me a very experienced helping hand,”
A renovation job well done .. Tony Walther surveys the renovation work at the Timber Development Association’s new offices at St Leondards.
Tony said. Certainly, the industrious German-speaking A-team worked fast and efficiently and delivered the goods on time – without any spare hours even to watch the run of the Melbourne Cup on TV! “The original office fit-out at the St Leonards address used a lot of steel (cheap work stations etc) and we thought this is rather inappropriate for a representative of the timber industry,” Tony said. He drew a new design and built office walls and partitions featuring non-structural timber portal frames with timber flooring, linings, cladding and infills .. “a lot more
environmentally and sustainably superior to the offices of the Concrete Association across the road,” Tony quipped. Moxon Timbers supplied spotted gum and cypress cladding, V-jointed cypress, New Guinea rosewood panelling, American oak for internal panelling and mixed hardwoods with some yellow stringybark and New Guinea rosewood for pencil-round screening in the reception area. Boral Timber supplied hardwood flooring from its Silkwood range that included Blackbutt, Sydney blue gum, brush box, tallowwood, stringybark and spotted gum.
V-jointed horizontal western red cedar features on three walls, regency and rusticated weatherboard on others and some with shiplap run vertically, all provided by Timbeck Cedar Products. Carter Holt Harvey provided 7 mm plywoods and ITI Australia helped with rusticated and classic weatherboard from their DesignPine range and feature profiles from the Ezitrim range. LVL Beams from Carter Holt Harvey, glulam beams from Hyne, and appearance solid timber beams from CWC were used to make up the portal frames. Tony Walther joined TDA eight months ago. He gained his MSc (civil engineering) in New Zealand, an MSc (economics) in Canada while on student exchange, and carried out most of his early undergraduate studies in his home country Austria. The NSW Forest Products Association and TABMA NSW have joined TDA at the same St Leonards address. Contact numbers are: TDA – (03) 8424 3700. FPA – (02) 9279 2344 (unchanged). TABMA NSW – (02) 9277 3100 (unchanged). – JIM BOWDEN.
Hyne’s John McNamara elected chairman of TQ JOHN McNAMARA, managing director of Queensland’s largest timber processor, Hyne, has been elected chairman of Timber Queensland. He succeeds Skene Finlayson, managing director of Finlayson’s Timber and Hardware. Mr McNamara joined Hyne in 1994 as the company’s CEO, the first time a non-family member had been appointed to the position. Sean Gribble, general manager
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of the state’s largest cypress sawmiller, NK Collins Industries, was elected deputy chair. Other directors elected at the AGM included: Robert Ryder, divisional manager, frames and trusses, Dale and Meyers, Warwick Temby, executive director, Housing Industry Association, Doug Simms, managing director, Ravenshoe Timbers (director Simms Veneer and Sawmills, director Gordonvale Sawmills), Craig
Neale, facility manager, Carter Holt
Harvey
Woodproducts,
Caboolture, Robert Tapiolas, director,
Parkside
Supplies
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Tropical
Homes),
Mike
O’Shea,
general
manager,
Building
Business
Development (Forestry), Forest Enterprises Australia, and Skene Finlayson, director Finlayson’s Timber and Hardware (director Yarraman Pine).
John McNamara .. elected chairman of Timber Queensland
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TABMA Halloween night a howling success MORE than 200 ‘friends in industry’ kicked up their heels at a ‘monster’ dinner and dance at Brisbane’s Royal on the Park on Halloween Friday, October 31. More than anything – including an amazing magician and a hot dance band – the evening celebrated a unity among key stakeholders and executives from all sectors of the industry.
“It was an incredible night recognising not only the achievements of individual TABMA Queensland members, but the solidarity and resilience of our industry in a time when our unified voice is more critical than ever,” chief executive Karen Johnston said. ‘Monster’ sponsors were Thora Wholesale Timbers, Timber Queensland, Tasman KB
Catching up at the TABMA Queensland’s Halloween dinner and dance are West Hill, West Hill Consulting, Brisbane, and Charlie and Heather Henry of Charlie Henry Enterprises Pty Ltd, Gold Coast.
Troy and Angie Baker, Peachester Timber, and Lynn and Dave Wuiske, Langs Building Supplies.
and NTP Forklifts. ‘Mummy’ sponsors were Asian Pacific Timber Marketing, Gow Gates Insurance, DPR Hardwood (Ford Timbers), Tilling Timber, and AWX. Lucky door prizes went to Diane Dunshea of Manufacturing Skills (portable DVD player sponsored by Tilling Timber) and John Borg of Lindsay Meyers (Esky, sponsored by AWX).
TABMA Queensland has continued to expand its involvement in all areas affecting its members and has made great strides in the areas of management education and technical training. The organisation was established in 2001 due to an expressed need for a merchant-based member organisation in the Queensland timber industry.
Happy group at the TABMA (Qld) dinner are Wayne Norman, Wayne Norman Timbers, Alan Ford, Ford Timbers, Brisbane, Debbie Payne, Dindas Australia, Mal Gotham, Pacific Wood Products, and Rachel Fisher and John Menagh of Disprax Business Software Solutions.
Jeannie Alamkara, Lifestye Trader, Gold Coast, meets up with Jenny Williams, Alan Jones, and Kyla Wood of Austbrokers Premier, Brisbane.
Alicia Oelkers, TABMA Queensland, welcomes Gary and Diane Dunshea, Manufacturing Skills Australia, and Kersten Gentle, executive officer, Frame and Truss Manufacturers Association, Healesville, Vic.
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Luke Gaske, Ozline Timbers, and Pat Conduit and Melanie Hilcke, Hyne.
TABMA Queensland glamour Karen Johnston (chief executive) and Kelly Everett out front of the executive team, from left, Myles Forsyth, Forsyth & Romano Group, Mal Goatham, Pacific Wood Products, Keith Maitland, Tasman KB (TABMA Queensland chairman), Roger Healy, Simmonds Lumber. and Michael Gaske, Ozline Timbers.
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• Thursday, August 20, 2009 This Brisbane important and timely seminar, organised by TABMA Queensland, OnofLogan Conference will help reduce433 some the confusion relatingCentre to chain of custody. It 433 Logan Road, Stone’s Corner will ensure the Queensland timber industry has the information required LIMITED TO 60 SEATS for compliance with legislation,Key speakers will present information This important and timely seminar, organised by TABMA Queensland, and there will be a question and answer forum. will help reduce some of the confusion relating to chain of custody. It Speakers include: will ensure the Queensland timber industry has the information required
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Australasia • Kayt Watts, chief executive, Australian Forestry Standard Ltd (AFS) All three kilns have been recently refurbed and reskinned. Registration fee: $65 pp (TABMA member) $80 pp (non-member) • Includes hot breakfast • Michael Spencer, chief executive, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) If you need to dry your timber cost effectively these are a ‘must’ for you to and morning tea. Note: Arrival 7:30am. Breakfast 7:45 am. Presentations begin at 8 am. inspect. They are currently in operation and are available for inspection at our RSVP by Friday, August 14, to: Registration fee: $65 pp (TABMA member) $80 pp (non-member) • Includes hot breakfast Tabma Queensland, PO Box 532, premises and morning tea. Note: Arrival 7:30am. Breakfast 7:45 am. Presentations begin at 8 am. in Brisbane. 500byBrunswick Street, Valley 4006 Asking $60,000 ono. RSVP Friday, August 14,Fortitude to: These kilns are very quick and easy to load and unload and are transportable. Tel: (07) 3254 3166. (07) 3254 4599. contact Mal Goatham Any interest, please Tabma Queensland, PO Fax: Box 532, 0438 295 136 Fortitude Valley 4006 500Mob: Brunswick Street, on (07) 32995477 They will be available for dismantling and collection mid-January 2010.
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