In the news Industry awards return for 2021
THE Green Triangle Timber Industry Awards are back on the calendar after being cancelled last year due to Covid-19. The awards will be presented on October 29 at The Barn, Mount Gambier. Bringing together companies from both Victoria and South Australia, the awards acknowledge the standout contributors within their sectors across the Green Triangle and showcase innovative, sustainable and environmentally friendly practices across the industry. GTTIA Chairman Adrian Flowers said he was grateful for the timber industry’s continued patronage and was excited about what was in store for the 2021 event. “We are very fortunate to have the support and recognition of our peers as the flagship timber industry awards in the region,” he said. “The GTTIA committee are excited to build on our past awards nights, which were really well received, by adding exciting new categories in response to industry feedback. “With these new awards, the GTTIA committee believe we can truly showcase best practice in an ever-evolving and dynamic industry” To find out more, including sponsorship enquiries, visit www.gttia.com or contact GTTIA Event Manager Gaylene Newton on info@gttia.com or 0409 021 984.
Protocols in place for re-born AUSTimber P
lanning for AUSTimber 2020/2021 is now at full steam, with a slightly new look to reflect the pandemic. What was envisaged for early last year – and again late last year - will go ahead as planned in November 2021. AUSTimber will run from November 10 to 13 with the welcome dinner - with special guest speaker Dr Karl Kruszelnicki - scheduled for November 11. But world-wide travel restrictions and Covid-19 mean there will be some minor changes. “Regardless of anything else at the moment we have to have COVID safety protocols in place,” Dionne Olsen, who is coordinating the event, said. “We’re very fortunate being an outdoor venue. It gives us a lot of flexibility to ensure social distancing.” Missing this year will be the conference and there will be no need for extra exhibitor space off-site as there was in 2016. However the popular field trips will still be on. The first day of tours – November 10 - will include trips to the AKD Softwoods
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mill at Yarram which produces outdoor garden products, Alberton Timber and Treatment Plant which provide treated and structural timbers, and a visit to the Gelliondale Nursery (HVP Plantations). A mill, fabricating and Inforest tour will start with the Heyfield timber mill supplying Australian sustainable hardwoods, Kennedy Trailers to see some of their custom trailer solutions, and finish at flat pine and bluegum coupes. Other tours will include examining the practicality of creating a farmer-grown hardwood saw log resource in the Strzelecki Ranges as well as visiting the Radial Timber sawmill in Yarram, and various demonstrations of small-scale harvesting operations including a visit to a Heartwood Plantations site. The second day of tours will include a visit DJM Fabrications’ modern workshop with state of the art
equipment, regenerated ash and mixed species harvesting coupes, steep country harvesting from thinnings, to clearfall to an ash plantation.
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Australian Forests & Timber News June 2021
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