A recent major forestry news story has been the appointment of receivers KordaMentha to Southern Cross Forest Products Ltd. Southern Cross is the owner of Thames Timber in the North Island and four processing plants in Otago/Southland.
READ MORENick Horton recently commenced work with PF Olsen at the Rotorua office and Wiremu Ruru recently joined Mike Spier's team in the role of Harvesting Supervisor based in Rotorua.
READ MOREJohan Visscher has joined PF Olsen as Harvesting Manager, based in Blenheim. Johan has a wealth of experience in harvesting, both as a practical logger for around 10 years in the Nelson area and a similar time in harvest management with Rayonier in Canterbury.
READ MOREResearch and development into the symbiotic relationship of fungi with trees is showing promising signs of boosting tree growth, vigour and disease resistance.
READ MORERecent publicity around the forest industry and its safety record has highlighted the duties of principals.
READ MORENZUs continue to trade in the low $3's. With ERUs valid in the New Zealand ETS until May 2015, there is currently not a lot of demand for NZUs to encourage higher prices. However there are buyers and sellers trading in small volumes.
READ MOREIn a new Wood Matters feature, each month we will profile a person making a big contribution to safety. Anahera was nominated by supervisor Hamish MacPherson. Anahera takes the initiative to look after the safety of the skid-crew.
READ MOREPF Olsen, in collaboration with transport contractor FDL and PF Olsen's newly formed Central Safety Committee launched the new Zero Tolerance project for loader operators and truck drivers this week.
READ MOREThe Australian forestry and forest products sector has been a-buzz following the very explicit support offered by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Senator Richard Colbeck in their speeches to the industry gala dinner last week.
READ MOREIn this first Wood Matters edition for 2014 there can be no other topic than what can be done to avoid the shocking NZ forestry safety record of 2013.
READ MOREThe start of 2014 has seen a continuation of the trends of the second half of last year – strong demand and increasing prices for export logs and strong demand but mixed trading conditions for domestic processors.
READ MOREWelcome to Tom Otterson who started recently at PF Olsen's Gisborne branch as a Harvest Manager. Chris Perry commenced working as a Graduate Harvest Planner/Roading Supervisor in the Forest Engineering team in Rotorua recently.
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READ MOREThe Danes show us a simple and fun approach to promoting the benefits of building with wood.
READ MOREMany involved in the forest industry will be acutely aware of the difficulties in keeping abreast of constant plan changes as they affect forestry operations under the RMA.
READ MOREFrom the 1st January 2014, a compulsory Forest Owner Commodity Levy ("Levy") of 27 cents per tonne was introduced on all products sourced from trees in plantation forests in New Zealand.
READ MOREMany of our readers would have noticed a recent article in the New Zealand Herald newspaper titled "Scorched Earth" in which the author, Sam Judd, sought to attribute many of the problems of erosion and sedimentation of New Zealand waterways to the practices of the forest industry and particularly clear cutting of Radiata pine.
READ MOREWith the introduction of the new Forest Growing Levy on 1 January 2014 big changes are being made to the way forest growing is funded and organised in New Zealand. The aim is to bring forest growing research under a single management structure to ensure efficient organisation and delivery of research to industry end users.
READ MOREFor deforestation completed in the 2013 calendar year, the deforestation emissions return is due by the 31st March 2014, with surrender of units due by the 31st May 2014.
READ MOREAlthough we are now well into summer, it was only late October that we were shipping the last of our containerised tree stocks to a Dunedin client for the end of its last year's planting programme. This order was a repeat (and expanded order) from the prior year based on not only exceptional tree stock survival rates, but also exceptional early growth rates.
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