Forest Enterprises Growth Limited and three other forestry companies in Wairarapa have joined forces to improve operational efficiencies in log distribution and export in the region. Log Distribution Limited is a joint venture company which will manage log marketing and shipping, marshalling and stevedoring, road and rail transport and log storage. It will be supported by [...]
New Zealand Forest Owners Association, 26 March 2019: Forest Owners want clarity for what New Zealand plantation forestry is expected to deliver on climate change targets. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, has just issued a report which downplays the contribution of forestry in sequesting atmospheric carbon, and instead wants to drive down fossil [...]
Investor Update, December 2018 In this update Steve Wilton retires Bert Hughes finalist in Good Employer Awards Forest Call: Telling the forest story Log price trending well Gisborne District Council's forest visits Government supports forestry in regional development Positive response to our new investment A productive year 2018 has been a productive year, full of [...]
Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 2018 || Waingawa a ‘true inland port’, MP says. Those with “skin in the game” say the Wairarapa forestry industry can continue to grow, but only if rail infrastructure expands with it and employment training is better supported by the Government. More than five years since the Wairarapa-based logging and trucking companies [...]
The latest Spring 2018 issue of the New Zealand Forestry Bulletin was published on 12 November 2018. In this issue - China in the time of trade crisis Forest Owners submits ETS has stalled and action needed Log clean-up at Tolaga Bay led by local forest companies gives beach back to the community Carbon goal through returning [...]
NZFOA || Episode 10 is the final in the Forest Call series. Don Carson looks at pests, diseases and the science going into our forestry industry. Forest Call is produced by the New Zealand Forest Owners' Association. Growing the forest story: Forest Call Forestry has come out of the shadows into the spotlight. Our industry [...]
NZFOA || Episode 9 of Forest Call features Geoff Thompson from the Forest Growers Levy Board, and a report on new technology to fight moths from Scion, New Zealand's crown research institute for forestry. Forest Call is produced by the New Zealand Forest Owners' Association. Growing the forest story: Forest Call Forestry has come out of [...]
NZFOA || In Episode 8, Forest Call examines the industry problem of harvest debris and ways of managing vulnerable landscapes. Don Carson visits Ormond Forest in Gisborne with Dan Fraser from Forest Enterprises to talk about strategies for harvest management on the East Coast. Don also interviews Forest Owners Association President Peter Weir. Forest Call is [...]
NZFOA || Episode 7 of Forest Call focuses on health and safety. Forestry gets bad press for safety performance. However, in real terms, the forest industry does a better job of health and safety than any other major primary industry. On this episode, we find out how. Forest Call is produced by the New Zealand Forest Owners' [...]
Friday Offcuts, 21.9.18 || Entries in the 2018 NZ Wood-Resene Timber Design Awards demonstrated new and different ways to use timber that nevertheless meet all building codes and criteria as well as being beautiful. Timber industry and design professionals were honoured for their creativity and ingenuity at a gala event that ran in Auckland last [...]
