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CANADA’S richest forest province British Columbia will drive a sustainable timber message to the world at the 2010 Winter Olympics next month.The Games from February 12 to 28, are billed as the ‘Sustainable Olympics’, making wood the natural choice as a building material for the Olympic venues in Greater Vancouver and Whistler.One of the most unique and innovative uses of wood systems and the largest structure built for the Olympics
is the international award-winning Richmond Oval in Vancouver Designed to accommodate the long-track speed-skating events before an audience of more than 6000 spectators, its expansive 2.5 ha free-spanning ‘wood wave” roof, constructed of BC’s ‘beetle kill’ wood, is a precedent-setting example of the province’s advanced wood engineering and prefabrication capabilities.The building was among many all-timber structures on the
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Paper imports: industry down in dumps• Recognising carbon in wood products• Deadline extended for sale of FPQ• Life service award for Bob Humphreys• Hardwood seminars in Melbourne, NZ• Events. What’s on for 2010?
THis issuE• Big CHH plywood mill project in Victoria• ‘Farming’carbon in mountain ash
Wood the onlygame in townOlympic venues in British Columbia drive
sustainable message for timber structures
Skating in with magnificent message about wood.
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Olympics site visited by FWPA managing director Ric Sinclair and Timber Development Association chief executive Andrew Dunn during the International Wood Promotion Network meeting in Vancouver in September last year.“British Columbia’s government-backed ‘wood first’ campaign is aimed at increasing the use of timber in non-residential construction,” Andrew Dunn said.The ‘wood first’ drive is believed to be the first purposely funded by a government. Through Canada’s Economic Action Plan, the federal government is providing $40 million over the next two years to help forestry companies market innovative products internationally.
The Richmond Oval building’s superstructure is constructed almost entirely from wood; it is made up of glulam beam arches and prefabricated one-of-a-kind wood wave panels.Throughout the design phase, two roof options were developed: the innovative but untested WoodWave system,
and a more conventional steel-deck-on-glulam purlin system. Both options used the primary wood-steel arches to span the 100 m width of the main hall.The wood wave roof panel system design features hollow, triangular-shaped composite wood-steel arches, which span about 100 m. Spanning the 13 m between arches are 452 prefabricated WoodWave structural panels consisting of ordinary 2 x 4s arranged geometrically to optimise both structural and acoustic efficiency. Its name comes from the fact it is built completely of lumber and plywood fastened together in a wave-like form to serve as a structural roof, as a finished ceiling and as a noise-reducing panel.The roof system used about one million board ft of Douglas-fir lam-stock lumber in the glulam beams and one million board ft of 2 x 4 spruce pine fir commodity dimension lumber – primarily lumber affected by the mountain pine beetle infestation in BC’s interior. Think about it – that’s around 4600 cub m of wood or 120-plus 40ft container loads. Another 19,000 sheets of 4x8 ft Douglas-fir plywood was used in the roof panels. The roof is believed to be the largest surface ever covered in beetle-affected wood – showing that the wood remains structurally sound and attractive.Many of the Olympic venues
also incorporate the history of British Columbia’s First Nations people by using wood in time-honoured and traditional methods, while also being part of what is being billed as the greatest legacy of the 2010 Winter Games – an increased awareness of sustainable living.The BC Building Code, revised in April last year, allows for up to six storeys of wood frame construction for residential buildings.The forest industry remains the key economic engine in BC. Industry sales are responsible for 43% of manufacturing shipments and 13% of GDP. The economic activity created by the forest sector is the largest single source of provincial employment, accounting for more than 200,000 jobs. The industry is responsible for more than $3.5 billion in payments to government, including over $1.5 billion of payments from direct employees.The 2010 Winter Olympics will be the third Olympics hosted by Canada, and the first by the province of British Columbia.
wood innovation
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structurally sound .. and the largest roofsurface covered by beetle-affected wood
International award-winning Richmond Oval in Vancouver.
Roof system uses about one million board ft of Douglas-fir lam-stock lumber in the glulam beams.
More scholarships are available to study forestry in 2010 than ever before, thanks to the support of many in the forest sector.Closing dates vary, but are generally imminent because of the start of the academic year.1. The institute of Foresters of Australia has established a trust fund to offer scholarships of around $5K for new students undertaking forestry undergraduate degrees at ANU and Southern Cross University, and for forestry postgraduate coursework degrees at ANU, Southern Cross University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, and the University of Tasmania.More information: Anne Katalinic, Institute of Foresters of Australia, PO Box 7002, Yarralumla ACT 2600. Tel: (02) 6281 3992. Fax: (02) 6281 4693. email: [email protected] Web: www.forestry.org.au2. The gottstein Trust is offering $5K forest industry scholarships to undergraduates or postgraduate students new to forestry who are undertaking a bachelor degree, graduate diploma or masters degree in forestry, forest science or wood science.More information: www.gottsteintrust.org3. The National Forestry Masters Program is offering mobility scholarships of up to $4K a year for students enrolled in a forestry graduate diploma or masters degree at ANU, Southern Cross University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, and the University of Tasmania. Applications are made through the university of enrolment.More information: www.forestry.org.au/masters4. The CRC for Forestry offers full or top-up scholarships for masters by research or PhD study are available for projects supported by at its member universities. More information: www.crcforestry.org.au5. Universities offering undergraduate and graduate forestry degrees may offer additional scholarships.
University Scholarshipsfor Forestry Study 2010
University Scholarships2010
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This fourth generation sawmiller
is milling, drying, dressing and
profiling one of the world’s most
celebrated hardwood timbers
for high strength structural
applications and fine quality
joinery, cabinetry and furniture.
QUIET and unassuming, managing director of Reid Bros Sawmill Rowan Reid, 41, looks more comfortable piloting a fork lift around the timber yard than sitting behind his office desk. Along with wife Heidi and daughters, aged 3 and 5, he makes a valuable contribution to the local economy in the heart of Victorian timber country at Yarra Junction.A fourth generation Victorian timber man working, as have his family before him, in the impressive mountain ash forests and sawmills, Rowan is reserved about recounting the monumental exploits of his great grandfather in pioneering sawmilling and timber processing effort in the state.As the name suggests, the centre of Reid’s sawmilling enterprise, Yarra Junction, between Warburton and Lilydale, was a rail junction where the 36-in. gauge of the Powelltown timber tramway met the standard gauge of the Victorian Railway. Timber has long been associated with the Yarra Valley; more wood has passed through Yarra Junction than any town in the world, other than Seattle in the US.Today, Reid Bros Sawmill specialises in Victorian ash – milling, kiln drying, dressing, profiling and selling one of the world’s most celebrated hardwood timbers for a wide range of uses, from high strength structural construction applications to the finest quality joinery, cabinetry, furniture making and craft work.The mill continues to be a
significant employer in the region. Rowan notes the numerous other jobs in forestry, transport, engineering, and in timber and manufacturing supply chains that revolve around the mill. “We have a responsibility to keep this whole show alive and on-the-road,” he said.
He says Reid Bros is currently sawing trees killed in the horrific Black Saturday bushfires. Muted about the tragedy visited on Victoria by the bushfires, he points out that the fire-killed trees presently being processed into high quality Victorian ash timber means that at least some trees will not count for nothing.When pushed, Rowan ventures that there are lessons that clearly demonstrate the need for ‘sensible’ forest management rather than locking up forests and throwing away the key.“Unfortunately, Victorian ash forests are very susceptible to fire damage and these
forests have suffered in several tragic fires since European settlement,” Rowan says.
“Practicable, sustainable forest management can not only reduce bushfire intensives, but the infrastructure associated with forestry operations together with the skilled well-equipped forest workforce can reduce fire fighting reaction times and lessen the severity of the trauma inflicted on surrounding communities.”Rowan is quietly proud that Reid Bros Sawmill has continued to build on the solid foundations laid down over more than a 100 years by family members. In a reflective way, he sees continuing to use a world quality renewable timber resource and the maintenance of the family tradition of employment, service and supporting the economic
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Victorian ash ... a timber traditionwith modern environmental twist
‘Carbon stored in trees is not released just because a tree is
harvested’
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Rowan Reid .. building on foundations laid a century ago.
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GLOBAL warming is going to force forest-rich British Columbia to rethink the way forests are managed, putting carbon storage at the top of the list, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.The report shows that the mountain pine beetle has killed a billion trees in BC, turning the province’s forests into carbon emitters instead of carbon storehouses. Warmer winters have been a factor in the beetle epidemic and it is only one of many pests on the increase in the province’s forests.Ben Parfitt, resource analyst for the centre, says there is an urgent need to re-establish a carbon balance in forests. Top
recommendations in the report to restore the balance include:• Setting aside more forest land, a common theme from environmental groups.• Encouraging the use of wood
products over concrete and steel as a way of locking carbon up.• Accounting for the carbon locked up in wood products in any carbon credit program.• Eliminating wood waste in logging.• Establishing ‘carbon plantations – where tree species are grown for their ability to capture carbon.The report – Managing BC Forests for a Cooler Planet – shows that wood is by far the best alternative to steel, concrete or brick in terms of fossil fuel use. It takes three times as much fossil fuel energy to produce an equivalent amount of concrete or brick and 17 times as much energy to
produce an equivalent amount of steel studs.And once wood is manufactured into a product, even if it’s just a two-by-four, it continues to act as a carbon storehouse.“Every stick of lumber we make and put behind drywall in a house is carbon stored from the tree that it came from,” Mr Parfitt says.The report from the left-leaning think-tank is supported by environmental groups and forest worker unions and is receiving surprisingly good reviews from industry and government.“We agree on the focus of the report,” says John Allan,
Carbon locked in wood products should beaccounted for in any carbon credit programEnvironmental groups, government support Canada study
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Accounting for carbon stored in wood after harvest makes sense.
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FEBRuaRy 2010 3-5: australian international Furniture Fair Sydney Exhibition Centre, Sydney, NSW www.aiff.net.au
11: Timber Certification: are you Ready? Timber Merchants Association (Vic) industry breakfast. Venue: Hotel Bruce County, 445 Blackburn Road, Mount Waverley, just off the Monash Freeway. Time: 7.30-9.30am. Cost: $55 pp (members); $60 pp (non-members). Guest speaker: Kayt Watts, CEO, Australian Forestry Standard. Contact: Ingrida Matulis on (03) 9875 5000 or email [email protected] RSVP: January 28.
21-24: Green Cities Building Conference. Venue: Melbourne Conference Centre. A joint initiative of the Green Building Council of Australia and the Property Council of Australia. Contact: HI Event Management (07) 3210 1646 or [email protected] Program available at www.greencities.com.au
23: american Hardwood Export Council (aHEC) free half-day seminar. The International of Brighton, Melbourne. Keynote speaker: Luke Hughes, international furniture and interior designer. AHEC will also launch its sustainability Green Card at the seminar. Seminar registrations: Email [email protected]
25: american Hardwood Export Council (aHEC) free half-day seminar. Fale Pasifika, Auckland University, NZ. Keynote speaker: Luke Hughes, international furniture and interior designer. AHEC will also launch its sustainability Green
Card at the seminar. Seminar registrations: Email [email protected]
MaRCH 20101-2: Future Forestry Finance Conference. Novotel Brighton Beach, Sydney. Contact: 1800 125 388 (free call in Australia) or web sties www.fiea.org.nz or www.forestryfinanceevents.com
2-3: National Outlook Conference (aBaRE) Canberra, ACT. www.abare.gov.au
5-17: industry bus tour of Northern New south Wales. Contact: Karen Johnston at TABMA Queensland. Tel: (07) 3254 3166. Email: [email protected]
16-17: 4th Global Wood Fibre Trade Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Visit www.pulpwoodconference.com
21: World Forestry Day
22: World Water Day
24-26: international Wood Products association annual convention Miami Beach, Florida, USA www.iwpawood.org
25: annual Timber Merchants association charity dinner supporting the Burns unit of the Royal Childrens Hospital. Keynote speaker: Joe Helper, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry. Venue: River Room at the Crown Casino, Southbank, Melbourne. Cost (GST inc) including pre-dinner drink, 3-course meal and beverages: $165 pp (members); $175 (non-members). Payment no later than February 25.
Non-members who book a table of 10 will be eligible for member
pricing of $1650. Bookings to Ingrida Matulis on (03) 9875 5000 or email [email protected]
31: international wood composites symposium and technical workshop 2010 Seattle, Washington, USA. www.woodsymposium.wsu.edu
aPRiL 201015: Dubai international Wood and Wood Machinery show Dubai. www.dubaiwoodshow.com
18-21: aPPiTa annual Conference and Exhibition/Pan Pacific Conference Melbourne. www.appita.com.au
May 201018: Victorian Timber industry supply Chain seminar: Connecting the Pieces for Business success. Radisson Hotel, 380 William Street, Melbourne. Contact: Peter Roberts, Timber Merchants Association on (03) 9875 5000 or John Halkett, Australian Timber Importers Federation on (02) 9356 3826.
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.
24-25: Wood supply Chain Optimisation 2010, Rotorua, NZ.
www.vafi.org.au
JuNE 20103-4: aFCa Conference and Trade Expo, Novotel Resort, Coffs Harbor, NSW. www.afca.asn.au
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SUSTAINABLE.RESPONSIBLE.
The NationalAssociation of Forest
Industries (NAFI)is striving for an
ecologically sustainableAustralian societyachieved through
dynamic,internationally
competitive forestindustries.
NAFI’s mission is torepresent the interests
of members bypromoting theenvironmental
sustainability andthe prosperity ofAustralian forest
industries.
WHAT’S ON?
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president of the BC Council of Forest Industries. “The summary of what’s going on is quite good, accurate and complete.”However, he says the report lacks economic analysis, a critical component in decision-making. He also reckons there will be a cost to taxpayers in accounting for carbon in the forests.“It’s going to take effort from everyone to address these problems; they are huge and so complex.”Forests Minister Pat Bell says many of the report’s recommendations, such as accounting for carbon stored in wood products, make sense. The Kyoto accord does not account for carbon stored in wood products.Promoting wood over concrete or steel and accounting for carbon locked up in wood products are crucial in any carbon reduction plan, Mr Bell says.But putting carbon first in forest management is a complex question, he said, that cannot easily be answered.Further, both Allan and Bell said the report’s No. 1 proposal, protecting more land from logging, is not the answer as parks, protected areas and regulations restricting logging for other values already remove 30% of managed forest lands from logging.
Carbon stored in forests accounts for nearly 1000 times the province’s annual greenhouse gas emissions, the report states. It recommends more protected areas and longer rotations between harvesting cycles, something that will affect the volume of wood products and number of jobs in making them.
Pat Bell .. putting carbon first a complex question.
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CARTER Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia has announced a significant plywood mill upgrade at its Myrtleford, Vic, integrated plant, to create a world class plywood mill utilising state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment.The Myrtleford facility commenced sawmilling and pulping operations in 1975 as Australian Forest Industries. Plywood manufacture began at the site in 1981. CHH purchased the facility in 1995. Under CHH ownership, the site has operated as a sawmill, ply mill, treatment plant and pulp mill. The pulp mill was decommissioned in 1999.Construction of the new ply mill is scheduled to begin in May this year with commissioning in May 2011. CHH has advised that both the existing sawmill and ply mill will continue to operate during construction and
some of the existing buildings and associated plant will be incorporated into the new ply mill facility.Traffic numbers in the area will reduce as production levels are 20-30% lower than the sawmill capacity.
“The existing sawmill is over 25 years old and is inefficient by today’s standards. A development is essential for the long-term security of operations,” mill manager John Browne said.“One of the benefits of the new mill is the retraining and up-skilling of employees to operate and maintain a high-tech plywood facility as well as the benefits to the region during the construction phase and well into the future.“This includes securing jobs in harvesting, haulage and off-site services that the mill helps support.”CHH intends to continue operating both the sawmill and the current ply mill during the construction phase and to manage a smooth transition to the new facility without any supply interruptions.Products now manufactured at the sawmill will cease production at Myrtleford after the completion of the new plywood mill. Many of the existing facilities will be retained for the plywood production including boilers,
some kilns, the de-barker, log yard, offices and the dry mill and ply mill buildings.CHH personnel have toured Europe and Canada to select the most efficient plant in its class.“The plant design means better energy efficiency and less greenhouse gases, reduced water demands, improved air quality, and less visible smoke and blue haze in the valley,” John Browne said.Meanwhile, CHH is placing 29 dairy farms on converted Waikato forestry land on the market, asking $224.5 million in the largest single offering of farming land ever seen in New Zealand, according to Bayleys Real Estate.Ranging in size from 218 ha to 726 ha, the farms were converted with substantial investment in modern machinery, roading and residences ahead of Kyoto Protocol rules that came into force in 2008 requiring that cleared plantation forests be replanted rather than converted to another use.
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Plywood mill atMyrtleford bigCHH investment
State-of-the-art plywood mill at Myrtleford to be commissioned next year.
John Browne .. better energy efficiency.
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iNNOVaTiVE, extremely
capable, and with a deep
passion for the forest industry,
Bob Humphreys has packed a
lot into his 50-plus years as a
hardwood sawmiller.
His contribution to the industry
over this half century that saw
him honoured with a Victorian
association of Forest industries
lifetime service award is well
chronicled in these extracts
from an address by NiCK
MuRRay, CEO, Gippsland
Ports.
BOB Humphreys is the recipient of the 2009 Victorian Association of Forest Industries lifetime service award and what a worthy recipient he is.Bob commenced his involvement in the industry via the family business started by D.G Humphreys in the early 1950s. Through almost six decades since then, there have been many trials, tribulations, successes, innovations, highlights and moments of despair.Bob’s continuity in this industry is all the more remarkable given what he has endured despite the Land Conservation Council (LCC) process in the 1970s, the timber industry strategy in the 80s, the promise and then denial of evergreen sawlog licences, introduction of the auction system, countless bushfires
and repeated expansion of the park estate, invariably reducing the volume and quality of available resource.Lesser beings would have wilted. But Bob endured and prospered.Along the way, he served as VAFI president, East Gippsland section president, won two VAFI safety awards, a VAFI site enhancement award and grew his business to become Victoria’s fourth largest hardwood sawmilling business.The current businesses, Hallmark Oaks, Donreal and Cape Everard, employ in excess of 30 people. While this is not the largest employer
in the industry, Hallmark Oaks represents the lifeblood of the town and community of Cann River.Bob not only manages a sawmilling business, he carries the responsibility of having the destiny of a Victorian community in his large and leathery hands.Bob is renowned for many things, his flamboyance, particularly his cars, his driving, his horses, his golf, his annual threats to resign his VAFI membership unless there is a reform of membership fees, his canary yellow suit, the renditions with his great friend Norman Huon at VAFI dinners, his duet with Frankie J Holden
at the 1999 grand final brunch at the Hilton, where he had 600 people cheering for more.
Bob is a great innovator; he converted his gas-assisted solar kilns to solar-assisted gas kilns and moved is mill to higher ground well before climate change and sea level rise were popular issues.
Bob and still remains the ̀ go-to’ person for the media seeking an industry perspective on the perennial forest resource access issues in East Gippsland.
Few would know that Bob is also an advocate of the right to protest and is in fact an active practitioner of the Quaker practice of silent protest.
What is less well known about Bob, however, is his great generosity to the community in which he lives and works, and his support for organisations such as the Cann River P12 School, the Bush Nursing Centre, and the State Emergency Service.
Bob has been an incredibly strong advocate for the collective benefit of the industry often to the detriment of his personal interests or opportunities.
This is evidenced again by his election for another term as VAFI president, a role of service to the industry, which is incredibly demanding on time, particularly when you live more than 400 km from Melbourne.
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Endurance earns Bob life service awardStrong advocate for ‘collective benefit’ of industry
Bob Humphreys .. dedicated to forest industry.
Eu casts doubts on Australia’s action on banning illegal timberTHE European Commission has cast doubt on research commissioned by the Australian Government that questions the need for laws to block illegally logged timber from entering the country.
Federal government research said a strict ban on illegal timber
would be costly for consumers and business, and would mean Australia acting unilaterally.
The report by the Centre for International Economics concluded that an Australian ban would achieve little to influence the situation globally.
However, the EU questioned
estimates made in the research on the value of illegal timber imports into Australia and said furniture had not been included.
‘’The assumption that Australia act unilaterally is rather contentious. Not only the EU and US but many other
countries are developing
measures to deal with illegally
harvested timber,” the EU said.
The Australian Government has
hired a consultant to develop
an assessment methodology to
conduct further research.
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THE American hardwood industry is bringing its sustainability story to Australia and New Zealand, with seminars planned in each country at the end of February and the launch of a new ‘Green Card’ for specifiers.The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) is the leading international trade association for the US hardwood industry, promoting its members’ sustainable hardwood species since the early 80s. It represents the committed exporters and all of the major US hardwood product trade associations.Its early export promotional effort was focused on Japan and Europe, followed by Mexico, Asia (particularly China) and more recently southeast Asia.Some exporters have been providing Australian and New Zealand markets with American oak and other species for many years, and AHEC signalled increased promotional activity in Australasia with technical seminars (Brisbane and Sydney) in 2008 and its first showing at DesignEx Melbourne in 2009. (It will also be at DesignEx Sydney next year.)Now, AHEC is hosting free half-day seminars in February for design and build professionals – at the International of Brighton, Melbourne, on February 23, and Fale Pasifika, Auckland University, on February 25, where American hardwoods will be presented as the ‘green alternative’ to other less sustainable species.The purpose is to offer design choices with species for which there is unequivocal evidence of legality and tong-term sustainability, with low risk to the forest environment.Keynote speaker will be internationally regarded
furniture designer/maker and adventurer Luke Hughes from the UK. Highlights will also include the launch of a Green Card to assist architects and designers provide necessary environmental credentials to their clients during the bid process. New technical information on the major species will also be released.AHEC says it wants to develop specialist markets in Australasia for interiors and furniture.Seminar registrations for Melbourne and Auckland, please email: [email protected]
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Hardwood story onsustainability told atfree seminar series
Luke Hughes .. leading British designer and furniture maker.
Death of NZ foresterNOTED NZ forest industry identity Kenneth Miers has died, aged 85.A former NZ Institute of Forestry member, he worked for the NZ Forest Service where his positions included director of Environmental Forestry in head office.His funeral service was held at Pukerua Bay on January 22.He lived in Levin with his wife Beth.
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THE removal of dumping duties on imported toilet paper from China and Indonesia announced by the Attorney-General Robert McClelland is a blow to the Australian forest and paper industry.The decision is to be retrospective and will impact on Australian manufacturers, their employees, and dependant businesses and communities.A review by the Australian Customs Service found that specific imported products from China and Indonesia were dumped and domestic industry suffered injury as a result. However, the injury was defined as not material on technical grounds. “Australia must maintain a strong and consistent
anti-dumping system to ensure domestic manufacturing is not unfairly disadvantaged, and where dumping activities are demonstrably occurring, the competitive playing field
must be reinstated,” A3P chief executive Richard Stanton said.“This decision has demonstrated that the current system is complex, resource intensive, and costly to access for potential applicants, and even when dumping is identified and financial injury can be demonstrated, domestic industry receives no relief due to decisions made on technical grounds.”There is a limited administrative appeal process to the review decision and the parties are currently considering their position.Meanwhile, A3P awaits the Government’s release of the Productivity Commission’s final
report on the anti-dumping system.The commission delivered the completed final report on December 18 after which the Government has 25 sitting days to table the report.The commission was asked to undertake an inquiry into the effectiveness and impact of the anti-dumping system, specifically policy rationale, effectiveness, benefits and costs, and make recommendations on the future role and improvements in the anti-dumping system.The final report follows a draft report released in September last year, public hearings, and 65 public submissions by interested stakeholders, including A3P.“Continuance of an effective and accessible anti-dumping system is very important to the Australian wood and paper products industry, especially in light of the recent perplexing removal of existing dumping duties on imported toilet tissue products from China and Indonesia,” Richard Stanton said.A3P will continue to be
Robert McClelland .. removal of dumping duties.
Richard Stanton .. current system complex and costly.
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success of Victoria’s building and timber manufacturing industries as his purpose and responsibility.Rowan talks about more recent incentives, including the ‘farming’ of carbon both in the mountain ash forests and in the timber products they grow. He also acknowledges the challenge he has in demonstrating that, unlike other industrial enterprises, in addition to producing products that assist in tackling climate change, his sawmilling operation generates much of its own energy needs.The recent technical innovation and environmental credentials of Reid Bros Sawmill are a testimony to Rowan’s business savvy and sense of conservation and community commitment. The mill’s ongoing participation in a Greenhouse Gas Abatement Project that measures and quantifies its environmental benefits has been widely acknowledged; the mill won the 2007 Victorian Association of
Forest Industries Environmental Sustainability Award sponsored by the Victorian Environmental Protection Authority for the best environmental sustainability initiative in the state.“We received this award for the installation and use of our state-of-the-art steam boiler that uses wood waste to generate energy for the mill’s kilns and timber
processing,” says Rowan.The executive director of VAFI Philip Dalidakis says along with other companies in the timber industry, Reid’s Sawmill has an impressive story to tell.“It is a great environmental and sustainable industry like no other. It’s time for us to stand up and be proud of that story and its time for us to start
yelling it from the roof tops,” Mr Dalidakis said.He says that there can be no argument that the Victorian timber industry has undergone a period of significant change in recent years, but will not be without its challenges in the years ahead. “Issues surrounding industry consolidation, carbon sequestration and the contribution that industry can make in fighting climate change are all major issues that the industry will increasingly face in the future.”Mr Dalidakis stresses the point that the carbon stored in trees was not released just because a tree is harvested. “And therein is one of the major issues confronting our industry. There is little doubt that the widely held view in the community would contradict that very point, and we need to deal with the fact that ‘perception is reality’ and truth may very well be and often is the victim.”
engaged in this process and will communicate developments to interested members.Paper and board production from China’s 3490 mills reached 26.74 million tonnes during January-April last year, up 2.1% compared to 2008, says a report to the Paper Industry Sustainability Forum.The pulp and paper industry in Indonesia is dominated by two companies, APP and APRIL, which together control more than 75% of total pulp capacity. The capacity of pulp mills in
Indonesia has expanded rapidly increasing from 1 million tonnes a year in 1990 to 8.5 million tonnes by 2007, according to available figures. But the enormous increase in capacity has little to do with increased demand for paper in Indonesia. It is for export.In Sumatra, the pulp and paper industry has contributed to the loss of large areas of tropical rainforest. By 2000, according to CIFOR, the pulp industry had destroyed an area of 835,000 ha of high biodiversity rainforest. The impact on rural communities and their livelihoods has been devastating.
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Aftermath of Black Saturday bushfires .. at least some of the fire killed trees are being processed into high value Victorian ash timber products.
‘Farming’ carbon both in mountain ashforest and in timber products they grow
THE Queensland Government has extended the deadline for initial bids for Forestry Plantations Queensland, the first asset to be sold as part of the government's $15 billion privatisation program.Acting Premier and Treasurer Andrew Fraser confirmed in a report that there had been strong buyer interest in the 99-year licence to manage 210,000 ha of hardwood and softwood plantations.The initial bids were due this month, but the government has extended the deadline until February 19 due to wider than anticipated interest. Final bids are due in April with the
sales process expected to be completed by June.Mr Fraser said he was confident the government would achieve the $500 million price tag Treasury had estimated for the asset, although bids are mostly expected to come from overseas buyers.Expressions of interest have been received from the Hancock Timber Resource Group, based in Boston, USA, and Global Forest Partners, one of the largest timber investment management organisations.Australian producers and plantation owners are not likely to be major players in any deal the state makes on the sale.
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