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Aug
30

Forestry’s safety record no longer going to pot

"We may come out and start supporting those people calling for a lowering of the alcohol limit," muses David Rhodes.

Rhodes, the Forest Owners' Association chief whose members are cracking down on foresters' love of a pint, a smoke and, sometimes, [ More ]

Aug
30

Trade academy to chip away at labour drought

As many as 1000 extra forestry workers will be needed every year for the next 20 years, regardless of whether the current wood boom continues, says a 2008 Berl report commissioned by an industry educational body.

Ian Boyd, chief executive of [ More ]

Aug
30

Green gold

There's a superstition among forest workers that goes something like this: When the New Zealand economy booms, the forestry industry descends into economic hell. "And," says a forestry veteran who must remain nameless, "when everything else is f***ed, we're all [ More ]

Aug
27

Friday Offcuts – 27 August 2010

In line with several articles, editorials and a bunch of letters to the editor in recent months, one of our top stories in this issue continues the theme of battling anti-forestry campaigns that dog our industry. The Institute [ More ]

Aug
26

Constructive Solutions – August 2010

THE NZ WOOD EMAIL ALERT FOR ENGINEERS
AND CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS

International engineering interest in new Nelson timber building Carl Devereux from Aurecon points out the sophisticated seismic features in the NMIT’s wooden three-storey building.

This week over [ More ]