For the many home owners in New Zealand high house prices offer increased wealth and the ability to refinance and consume more. Most would acknowledge, however, that excessively high house prices have many unfavourable impacts on society and the economy
READ MOREMulti-story buildings have traditionally been the preserve of the modern building materials concrete and steel. Sky scrapers developed from the ability to erect a steel framework from which curtain walls are suspended, rather than load-bearing walls of conventional construction modern building materials.
READ MOREThis month has seen some big announcements relating to wood biomass for energy. This confirms the increasing role of wood pellets on the global energy market.
READ MOREIn the last month NZUs continued their downward trend trading in the $2.80 to $4.00 range, currently at around $3.00. The continued slump in prices has been driven by forecasts of increased supply of UN offsets (CERs and ERUs) which exceed forecast demand levels.
READ MOREWe often hear claims that pine forests are "ecological deserts" and bad for biodiversity.
READ MORELandowners looking for information about any aspect of planting and managing trees in the working landscape will soon be able to access a new online – and free – database.
READ MOREPF Olsen staff got behind Pink for a Day on Friday 12th October to raise breast cancer awareness.
READ MOREWood Matters is getting into the groove of spring growth, and is having a "Birthday"!
READ MOREThe NZ Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) was originally conceived as New Zealand's primary tool to help transition our national economy to become less reliant on fossil fuel consumption, and as a result more internationally competitive and resilient.
READ MOREWhen the ForestrySA forward rotations sale settles later this year, more than half of Australia's plantation estate (measured by either area or value) will be owned by institutions, with greater than AUD 3 billion funds invested.
READ MOREEnvironmental initiatives are usually associated with having to accept higher costs or lower productivity. However, this is not always the case as recently experienced by PF Olsen when it encouraged a harvesting contractor to trial a new chain bar oil based on vegetable oils.
READ MOREIn May 2012 the Far North District Council (FNDC) published its draft Long Term Plan (2012-22) which was described as a "blueprint for a fairer rating system". The reason for it being called a "fairer rating system" was that it introduced the user pays principle, or in other words, a targeted rate.
READ MOREIt's pine pollen season again, and those that live in areas around Radiata pine forests will notice the deposits of yellow pollen on many outdoor surfaces such as puddles, decks, driveways and cars. Because pine pollen is large, yellow and visually obvious, it often gets unfairly blamed for a variety of ills.
READ MORETraditionally forestry companies, councils and engineers have used LiDAR to produce digital terrain maps (very high quality contour maps) for use in a range of harvest planning, engineering and roading applications.
READ MOREMany commentators are describing the log market this year as being remarkably stable, driven by particularly steady demand and price in the export log market.
READ MORENZUs continue their downward trend trading in the $4.20 to $5.00 range, currently at around $4.20. The much talked about temporary set-aside of carbon to curb oversupply in Europe appears to be on the go-slow with opposition from Poland and now the Netherlands.
READ MOREThe forest and wood processing industries are moving quickly on a strategy to transform the sector.
READ MOREAn initiative of Taupo District Council (TDC) and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) to engage with elements of the Chinese government to establish a new large-scale wood processing facility near Taupo is getting the attention of Central North Island (CNI) forest owners. PF Olsen, along with other forest managers and owners of CNI forests applauds this initiative.
READ MORENZUs continue their downward trend trading in the $4.70 to $5.70 range, currently at around $4.70. The much talked about temporary set-aside of carbon to curb oversupply in Europe is facing internal opposition and this caused the carbon price to collapse due to the uncertainty it created in the market.
READ MOREAnother month of steady pricing in both export and domestic markets for unpruned grades and continued increases in pruned log price and demand.
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