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Green facts on world’s tallest wood structure inspiration for greater timber use in Australia

WAUGH of the WOODS

BY JIM BOWDEN

THE principal architect of the world’s tallest mixed-wood structure believes the green credentials of the building could be incorporated in ideas promoting the use of timber in residential and commercial applications over high carbon emitting alternative materials, in Australia.

London-based architect Andrew Waugh calculates that the nine-storey residential Stadthaus tower in Hackney is storing more than 180 tonnes of carbon.

“By avoiding the use of traditional concrete methods we have saved a further 125 tonnes from entering the atmosphere during the

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This Issue • State discontinues timber credits scheme • Timber ideas fair in pictures

 Robust

Andrew Waugh champions cross-laminated timber at the Australian Timber Design Awards in Melbourne, alongside regional award winner Debbie Ryan of McBride Charles Ryan.

construction process,” Mr Waugh said.

The innovative principal

FWPA sets a new course • Industry welcomes forestry MIS tax change • Forest and wood products sector spending $100m on new research and development • Regional winners in Australian Timber Design Awards announced • Events: what’s on?

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industry news

Robust FWPA sets a new course

Programs are becoming more strategically focused

By JIM BOWDEN

THE unopposed passing of a special resolution “to refine the company constitution” was a great endorsement of the board and management of Forest and Wood Products Australia, the chairman Ron Adams said at the FWPA annual general meeting in Melbourne last week.

The successful resolution would allow FWPA to refine the company constitution to address ambiguities and omissions in the original document, Mr Adams said.

“This will allow FWPA to continue to improve on the delivery of services to members,” he said.

More than 75 FWPA members and industry stakeholders attended the second AGM, part of a week’s celebration of wood in Melbourne, which started with a lecture on high density timber housing by acclaimed UK architect Andrew Waugh at public lecture and forum in Federation Square, moderated

by Tony Arnel, chairman of the Green Building Council of Australian.

The week also featured a timber ideas fair highlighting the contribution R&D makes to industry and the announcement of southern regional winners in

Chairman of Forest and Wood Products Australia Ron Adams (left) welcomes new FWPA directors Evan Rolley and Mark Grey at the FWPA annual general meeting in Melbourne while FWPA managing director Ric Sinclair adds his congratulations.

the Australian Timber Design Awards.

FWPA appointed two new nonexecutive directors at the AGM, each with skills in corporate governance and marketing – Evan Rolley, former managing director of Forestry Tasmania, and Mark Grey, whose family has been involved in sawmilling in Tasmania for five generations.

Mr Rolley is currently a director of government-owned Tasmanian Ports Corporation Pty Ltd (Tasports) and operates Huon Valley Vineyards at Castle

Australian Timber Design Awards .. Jim Snelson, chief executive, Carter Holt Harvey Wood Products Australia (right) presents the Best Southern Region Award to Robert McBride and Debbie Ryan of McBride Charles Ryan architects, Melbourne, for their Letter Box House on the Mornington Peninsula.

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Forbes Bay. Mr Grey carries on his industry involvement through an advertising and marketing career. He is currently chief executive of the Queensland Eye Hospital.

The appointments follow the stepping down of two directors Kathryn Adams and Peter Zed. Other board members are Ron Adams (chairman), Wespine, Jim Snelson, Carter Holt Harvey, Nick Roberts, Forests NSW, Sadanandan Nambiar, CSIRO, Vince Erasmus, ITC Ltd, and Ric Sinclair, FPWA managing director.

In his annual report, Mr Sinclair said 2008-09 had been a successful year focusing on putting in place the key building blocks for the organisation.

“The company is in a strong financial position,” he said.

“Corporate governance and internal systems are robust and under constant review, and programs are becoming more strategically focused with an emphasis on outcomes rather than outputs.”

Mr Sinclair said a strong balance sheet had ensured key activities continued despite a decline in levies due to the economic downturn.

Domestic processor levies declined 8% compared to the prior 12 months and importer levies declined 30%. Total expenditure was up 43% compared to the prior 12 months.

The board has decided to run the business with an operating deficit over the five-year plan and bring accumulated surpluses down “within acceptable bounds”.

“R&D, the largest proportion of expenditure, remains the major focus,” Mr Sinclair said.

‘Matchable R&D’ expenditure was $7.5 million in 200809, which consisted of R&D investment projects, capacity building, tech transfer and a proportion of services, support and management expenses.

This represents 68% of total FWPA expenditure.

According to a recent review, the forest and wood products sector is spending about $100 million on R&D activities including overheads; FWPA is about 7% of the sector’s R&D spend.

During 2008-09, 55 completed projects represented $6.8 million of FWPA’s investment and total project values of $23 million.

Key projects included the revision of Australian Standard AS1720; Australian wood products life cycle inventory database; dynamics of carbon stocks in timber in Australian housing; development of visual grading rules for recycled timber; robotic timber stacking and sorting systems; the effect of thinning on wood quality and solid wood recovery in regrowth forests; support for water use efficient plantation management and wood production; and impacts of climate change on the plantation estate.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Credit where credit is due on credits

State softens on timber used for public works

By JIM BOWDEN

THE timber industry in Queensland has welcomed a report that the application of Greenstar scheme timber credits on major Governmentmanaged projects is to be discontinued.

The state’s decision on timber credits relates to projects undertaken by the Department of Public Works.

The Green Building Council of Australia’s green building rating scheme has not allowed stategrown timber to be used as the GBCA does not recognise the Australian Forestry Standard to which all Queensland’s publiclyowned forests are certified.

Currently, GBCA’s Mat-8 credit rating only recognises wood from forests certified under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Industry members contacted

by T&F enews were high in their praise of the Queensland Government’s decision. This would return stability to the industry and safeguard jobs, they said.

The industry has long complained about a discrimination against Queensland timber being used on Queensland green building sites.

Forest Plantations Queensland, expected to be the first in the state’s controversial $15 billion sell-off of public assets, manages more than 203,000 ha of AFS (AS 4708–2007 standard} certified softwood and hardwood forest plantations.

DERM Forest Products, a commercially-focused business unit within the Department of Natural Resources and Water, supplies more than 290,000 cub m of native forest timber to processors from state lands designated for timber production by the Queensland Government. About 90% of this quantity is sawlog product used in the domestic building industry but with increasing volumes targeted at valueadded and export markets.

A downturn in the building and construction sector has been blamed for a massive loss in FPQ revenue, just as

it is prepared for sale with expressions of interest likely to be posted before Christmas.

The FPQ annual report showed a $3.5million operating surplus for 2008, down from $85.5 million in 2007-08.

Proceeds from timber removals fell from $93.8 million in 200708 to $72.4 million in 2008-09, based on 1.55 million cub m of plantation timber removals over the financial year.

Meanwhile in New South Wales, one of the state’s biggest plywood mills says millions of dollars in lost orders and timber industry jobs will be at risk unless an anomaly in guidelines for environmentally sound use of wood products in buildings is straightened out.

The managing director of the Big River Group Jim Bindon said his business had lost

between $2 and $3 million in orders because its timber was AFS certified, not FSC, as favoured by the Green Building Council of Australia.

“The science of the AFS and the FSC is virtually identical,” Mr Bindon said. “Yet because of a few clauses in the GBCA guidelines, we cannot supply timber products that meet these guidelines.”

Mr Bindon observed that only one place in northeast Victoria and maybe some others in South Australia had this accreditation, but none is of commercially high value.

He said this anomaly has led to ludicrous situations, such as state governments using imported wood instead of products sourced from their own forests.

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Public works projects opening to AFS standard Queensland-grown timber?

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FWPA TIMBER DESIGN FAIR

Amarjot Kaur, marketing coordinator, FWPA, Melbourne, welcomes Alastair Woodard, Wood Products Victoria, and Prof.

Greg Nolan, director of sustainable architecture and wood, University of Tasmania, to the Timber Ideas Fair in Melbourne.

Andy McNauught, FWPA solid wood processing advisory group, Jason See, business manger, FWPA, and Peter Zed, managing director, Omega Consulting, Murrumba Downs, Qld,

Prof. Gordon Duff, chief executive, CRC for Forestry, Hobart, Evan Roley, director, Tasmanian Ports Corporation (new FWPA director), and Mark Brown, program leader harvesting operations, CRC for Forestry, University of Melbourne.

Kevin Ezard, Ezard Marketing, Andrea Sinclair, and David Simpson of 100% Content, creating and communication consultants. Melbourne.

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events

WHAT’S ON? 31: 2009 Queensland timber industry gala function. World class entertainment and an A-list invite list.

Contact TABMA Queensland (07) 3847 4637 Email: karen@tabma.com.au

NOVEMBER 09 6: Gala TABMA Awards Night.

Crystal Ballroom, Luna Park, Sydney, 1 Olympic Drive, Potts Point. 6.30 pm for 7 pm (formal/ cocktail).

Contact Timber and Building Materials Association (Aust) Ltd. Tel: (02) 9277 3100.

Fax: (02) 9437 1222.

6: Soils and Tree Nutrition Farm Forestry Research Seminar, DPI Attwood.

Tel: (03) 5833 5957.

Email: rhodey.bowman@dpi.vic. gov.au 6: Victorian Association of Forrest Industries annual dinner Crown Casino, Melbourne.

Tel: (03) 9611 9000.

10-12: ForestTECH 2009.

Tools and technologies to improve forest planning and operations, Rotorua, NZ. www.foresttechevents.com 12-13: Australasian Timber Drying Group (ATDG) 50th meeting, Lismore NSW. First day technical presentations. Second day site visits, including Boral’s engineered flooring plant at Murwillumbah and QDPI’s research facility in Brisbane.

Contact: Lance Vinnell, PO Box 85, St Kilda, Vic.

Tel: +61 419 895 358 (Australia) and +64 21 73 99 66 (NZ).

Email: lancemv@bigpond.com

the Year, Rutherglen.

Tel: 0409 964 283. philippa.noble@dpi.vic.gov.au

15-17: Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia annual conference and dinner.

Gold Coast International Hotel, Surfers Paradise.

Contact: Vicki Roberts, EWPAA, PO Box 2108, Fortitude Valley BC Qld 4006.

Tel: +61 7 3250 3700.

Email: vicki.roberts@paa.asn.au web: www.ewp.asn.au

24-25: Forests Futures: Innovation. Jobs. Investment.

2009 Forest Industries National Conference and Liaison Dinner – Canberra.

Conference registration and program available from: www.forestworks.com.au

16: Australian Timber Design Awards. National winners announced at EWPAA conference, Gold Coast International Hotel, Surfers Paradise.

Contact Laurel Clarke.

Tel: (02) 9279 2366.

16-18: ForestTECH 2009, tools and technologies to improve forest planning and operations, Albury, NSW. www.foresttechevents.com 18-20: Managing Native Trees: Towards a National Strategy.

Tane’s Tree Trust’s 10- year conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton,NZ. Workshops on the utilisation of totara and beech regeneration, the economical establishment of planted indigenous forest, eco-sourcing and the indigenous research program.

Tel: +61 9 239 2049.

Email ibtrees@wc.net.nz for a brochure.

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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.

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

DECEMBER 09 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

OCTOBER 2010

10-13: Australian Forest Growers national conference, Mount Gambier, SA. Chief executive Warwick Ragg. Contact national office: (02) 6162 9000.

2009

21: Northeast Australian Forest Growers branch field day and meeting, Victorian Tree Farmer of

SUSTAINABLE. RESPONSIBLE.

2010

OCTOBER 09

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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FWPA TIMBER DESIGN FAIR

Friends in forestry .. Peter Kanowski, professor of forestry, Australian National University, Canberra, and Brian Farmer, chief executive, Forestry South Australia.

Andy McNaught, FWPA solid wood processing advisory group, Sarah Gyopar, FWPA marketing and communications manger, and Niall Byrne, creative director, Science in Public, Melbourne.

FWPA director Sadanandan Nambiar (left) with Dr Michael Kennedy, science leader, innovative forest products, DPI Forestry, Brisbane.

Prof. Andrew Buchanan, wood technology research centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, Andrew Dunn, executive director, Timber Development Association, and John Halkett, technical manager, Australian Timber Importers Federation, Sydney.

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FWPA TIMBER DESIGN FAIR

Dr Geoff Downs, CSIRO Forest and Forest Products (right) discusses new technology to determine a tree’s pulp content with Dr Tony McRae, general manager, Southern Tree Breeding Association, Mount Gambier, SA.

Trou Krough, general manager, Machinery Automation & Robotics, Sydney, Alan McGreevy, QA Pty Ltd, Melbourne, and Gary Featherston, managing director, Forest Strategy Pty Ltd, West Preston, Vic.

Rod McInnes, chief executive, Timber Queensland (right) catches up with Peter Zed, retiring FWPA director.

Stephen Walker, general manager, DERM Forest Products, Brisbane, and Nick Roberts, chief executive, NSW Forests.

Sadanandan Nambiar, FWPA director, Peter Juniper, manager, solid wood program, A3P, Melbourne, Brian Hutchings, managing director, Timberbuilt, Clayton, Vic, and Dr Glen Kile, former managing director, FWPA.

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Chief executive of ITC Ltd Vince Erasmus confers with Simon Dorries, general manager, Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia.

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industry news

A chance to try a long-wanted building product: cross-laminated timber panels From Page 1

director of Waugh Thistleton Architects was a star attraction at presentations to regional winners in the Australian Timber Design Awards in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

The national winners will be announced on November 16 at the annual conference of the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australia at Surfers Paradise.

The 10th awards this year were ‘re-designed’ into regional judging following major sponsorship by the Wood Naturally Better campaign, an initiative of Forest and Wood Products Australia, which is promoting the environmental benefits of building with timber and delivering information on designing with wood.

“The campaign can only be enhanced by the wonderful carbon-positive figures coming out of the Stadhaus construction,” Andrew Waugh said.

“Australia is ‘right on the money’ with the Wood Naturally

Better crusade; it drives the low carbon revolution and the part wood has to play for construction and energy. It’s a shame that the UK’s Wood for Good campaign has been mothballed, but I believe it’s set for a revival any time soon.”

More than 900 cub m of European white wood went into the construction of the Stadthaus project and gave Mr Waugh an opportunity to use an innovative building product he had long wanted to try – crosslaminated timber (CLT).

The upper eight stories of the ‘honeycomb’ building are made from CLT panels that form a cellular structure of load bearing walls, including stairways and elevator cones and timber floor slabs.

The ground floor is cast concrete with short pile foundation, although Mr Waugh now says he could have used timber and will likely do so in the future.

The Stadthaus building uses platform configuration, with each floor set on the walls below and joints secured with screws and angle plates.

Melbourne architect Andrew Maynard accepts the Best Use of Australian Certified Timber Award (southern region) from the chief executive of Australian Forestry Standard Ltd Kayt Watts at the presentations in Melbourne.

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“Stresses are generally low throughout, but extra screws were added to reinforce timber locally where pressures exist due to compression perpendicular to the grain,” Mr Waugh said.

“The building also has sufficient redundancy that any single element can be removed without causing progressive collapse.”

Mr Waugh said one of the selling points of CLT was that cross-wise gluing at high pressure reduced the potential for expansion and shrinkage to insignificant levels.

“Also, the chance of creep shortening due to compression under-load is negligible for walls and 0.6 mm for the floors.

“Likewise, the potential for moisture expansion is negligible for the walls and 2 mm for the floors, resulting in maximum settlement for the entire building of less than 2.5 mm.”

Asked about fire protection, Mr Waugh said meeting building code requirements was relatively straightforward.

“Timber is self-protecting in the sense that it will char on the outside, preventing heat buildup at the centre, allowing it to retain its strength during fire for longer periods than steel or even concrete.

“As such, the CLT panels were designed to resist fire by calculating charring rates.

The CLT was supplied by Austrian manufacturer KLH Massivholz and manufactured from dried spruce boards stacked together at right angles and glued over their entire surface, “much like jumbo plywood.”

When Mr Waugh proposed to build the Stadhaus tower out of wood, his intentions were environmental. Between the emissions avoided by not using steel or concrete, and the fact that wood keeps greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere by storing the carbon absorbed by growing trees, the savings were equivalent to about 300 tonnes of carbon, which is the amount the building is projected to emit over 21 years of operation.

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Boral Timber specification manger Peter Rioiko (third from left) presents the award for Best Northern Region entry to architect Brian Hooper of Yeppoon and Michael Lavery of m3architecture, Albion, at the Australian Timber Design awards in Brisbane. Helping with the presentations on the night was Clarissa Brandt, communications manager, Timber Queensland.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Building weight was four times below its concrete counterpart From Page 8

The message worked strongly in his favour with local building authorities who at the time were stipulating that new buildings achieve energy reduction targets of 10% compared to benchmark levels.

“The savings achieved by using timber were equivalent to meeting this target for 210 years,” Mr Waugh said.

“However, the developers who were used to building typical concrete structures were far more interested in the wood’s speed of construction and cost.

“In addition to low material costs, the building was projected to weigh four times less than its concrete counterpart, which lowered transportation costs, allowed the design team to reduce the foundation by 70% and eliminated the need for a tower crane during construction.”

Especially impressive to the developers was the fact that Mr Waugh proposed to shave five months off the typical construction process for this type of building – a goal he managed to exceed.

Mr Waugh further impressed audiences that included engineers and builders: “The electricians estimated the job at eight weeks, spent four days on the site and announced they’d be back in six weeks.

“Imagine the difference walking around with a cordless drill compared to a concrete building where you are using hammer drills to drill into structural concrete soffits. It’s massive.”

In the end, four carpenters erected nine storeys in nine weeks, arriving every Tuesday with materials and completing a storey on Thursday – and the entire building process was reduced from 72 weeks to 49!

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industry news

Industry welcomes forestry MIS tax change

Assurance after collapse of agribusiness companies THE forest plantations industry has welcomed the announcement by Assistant Treasurer Senator Nick Sherry that the Federal Government will amend the tax law to protect investors in forestry managed investment schemes from unintended and adverse tax outcomes.

Chief executive of A3P Richard Stanton congratulated Senator Sherry for acting promptly to ensure investors in the forestry projects of the collapsed agribusiness companies Timbercorp and Great Southern would not lose their initial tax deductions because of events outside the investors’ control.

“The tax law amendment will restore the Tax Commissioner’s discretion to allow prior tax deductions to be retained

in the event of unexpected circumstances, such as hardship, death, divorce, compulsory acquisition, manager insolvency or destruction by natural disaster,” Mr Stanton said.

“This discretion existed for many years, but was unintentionally lost during the drafting of the 2007 legislation introducing the specific statutory deduction for investment in forestry managed investment schemes.

“Division 394 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 requires the initial investors in a forestry MIS to remain in the scheme for a minimum of four years before being able to sell their interests — one of several provisions incorporated in the law to regulate the secondary trading of forestry MIS interests.

Richard Stanton .. amended tax law will protect MIS investors.

“The sale of Timbercorp’s forestry assets to Global Forest Partners includes forestry projects that are less than four years old. The way the law currently stands, ATO would have no choice but to claw back

the prior tax deductions from investors in these projects.”

Mr Stanton said that this was one of a small number of unintended consequences of Division 394 that the plantation industry, ATO and the Treasury had identified.

“Although a couple of these unintended consequences can be resolved administratively by the ATO, a couple more, such as this one, require a legislative solution.

“A3P looks forward to examining the draft legislation, and then to seeing it enacted quickly to provide investors with certainty that they will not be unfairly penalised by events they have no control over.

‘It’s extremely perverse when a government-funded project cannot use timber sourced from its own estates’: Jim Bindon From Page 3

“It’s extremely perverse when a government-funded project cannot use timber sourced from its own estates,” Mr Bindon said.

He was also aware of companies freighting products from South Australia to Brisbane that could be sourced, with similar green

credentials, virtually at their doorsteps.

“Transporting timber thousands of kilometres is not consistent with environmentally sound guidelines,” Mr Bindon said.

Mr Bindon was in Canberra last Friday lobbying federal ministers and union leaders over the issue following talks

with the NSW Government.

said.

Industry lobbying has had an effect in Victoria, where the government has passed legislation banning laws that allow anti-competitive outcomes.

Mr Bindoon said he had no problem with the thrust of the GBCA guidelines... “but some of the products being importing with GBCA accreditation are from Asia where you would have to question whether their (environmental) standards are as high as in Australia.”

“We’re working on the NSW Government to get similar legislation in place here,” he

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$6.8 million of commitment by FWPA and a combined R&D

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program, launched in October last year, started with an initial activity of magazine and internet advertising, targeted at opinion leaders across Australia.

The first flight of messages attracted 9.3 million viewers at an average frequency of 2.6 times; the second flight 10.3 million viewers at an average frequency of 2.9 times.

Tracking research shows that consumers had a growing awareness of the ads and

were receptive to the message.

However, there was widespread confusion about climate change and the role of harvested wood products (versus trees).

The focus now is on developing and refining ‘content’, building alliances and testing new concepts.

Expenditure on generic industry promotion was $3,121,000 against $5,227,000 spent on R&D projects.

Building agricultural ties with China Call for applications More than 400 people attended the Melbourne Conversations event on Monday evening last week at Federation Square, Melbourne.

The topic ‘Low Rise, High Density: New Materials and New Methods (but will they be cheaper, greener and faster?)’ was moderated by Victorian Building Commissioner Tony Arnel and featured a presentation on the tallest timber building in the world, the brainchild of UK architect Andrew Waugh. Mr Waugh was joined on the panel by Joost Bakker, designer and innovator, Shelley Penn, associate state architect for Victoria), Shane Murray, head of Architecture Monash University, and Tom Jordan, managing drector, Hayball Architecture. The event was jointly developed by the City of Melbourne and the Wood. Naturally Better campaign.

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Tarmac Sawmilling located in the serene bush setting of Busbys Flat, Northern NSW is 433ofLogan Road, Stone’sAustralia.

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they produce the required surface finish on sawn or milled products • Colin MacKenzie, manager, timber application andStandard use, Timber Queensland • Kayt chief executive, Australian Forestry Ltd (AFS) •Watts, Maintain a range of mechanical parts on sawing machinery used in timber • •Simon Dorries, General Manager, Forest Engineered Wood Products Association of Michael Spencer, chief executive, Stewardship Council (FSC)

processing Australasia • Kayt Watts, chief executive, Australian Forestry Standard Ltd (AFS) We are seeking a suitably qualified individual, can work autonomously.

Previous Registration fee: $65 pp (TABMA member) $80Stewardship ppwho (non-member) • Includes • Michael Spencer, chief executive, Forest Council (FSC)hot breakfast in the timber industry is essential. andexperience morning tea.

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by Friday, Augustinclude 14, to: experience with circular tungsten tip blades.

Registration fee: $65 pp (TABMA member) $80 pp (non-member) • Includes hot breakfast Tabma Queensland, PO Box 532, and morning tea.

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Breakfast 7:45criteria, am. Presentations at 8 am. you believeStreet, your skills and experience match this please forwardbegin your resume 500IfbyBrunswick Fortitude Valley 4006 RSVP Friday, August 14, to: through to: Tel: (07) 3254 3166.

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Position Vacant Sawmill Manager Tarmac Sawmilling located in the serene bush setting of Busbys Flat, Northern NSW is part of the Tarmac Group of companies based throughout Australia. Tarmac Sawmilling is a large sawmill in the Northern Rivers with modern equipment and facilities with a production of 60,000 m3 and a staff of approximately 30.

Located 48km south of Casino and 80km north of Grafton, this is the ideal location for someone looking for a work/lifestyle balance.

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