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The New Zealand Forestry Bulletin is published three times per year by the Forest Owners Association. The Bulletin provides an excellent overview of national and international issues affecting the wood and forestry sectors. Read the Winter 2016 issue, published 8 June 2016. In this issue: An Effective ETS for Forestry - Why Should You Care? Giving the [...]
Con Williams, Rural Economist at ANZ - New Zealand’s forestry sector is experiencing a period of strong returns fuelled by a combination of steady Chinese demand, restrictions in export markets on native-forest harvesting, low shipping costs, a local building boom and a supportive NZ dollar (Bluenotes, 21 March 2017). Read Con Williams' article and download the [...]
The Winter 2017 issue of the New Zealand Forestry Bulletin was published on 31 August 2017. In this issue - Bob Jones goes wooden with world's tallest timber office tower End of Steep Land Harvest Programme marks new beginning to get boots off the slope Dances with wolves (Opinion Piece by D Rhodes, FOA Chief Executive) One [...]
The latest Autumn 2018 issue of the New Zealand Forestry Bulletin was published on 25 May 2018. In this issue - Global trends augur well for tree market future (D Rhodes - Opinion Piece) Harvesting companies' certification and mechanisation brings safer harvesting NES-PF operational ForestWood 2018: Forestry is truly in the spotlight Te Uru Rakau - the [...]
Researchers at Japan's Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute have invented a way of producing an alcoholic drink made from wood. They are able to preserve the specific flavour of each tree's wood. So far, they have produced tipples from cedar, birch and cherry. The team hopes to have their 'wood alcohol' on shelves within three years. [...]
Forest Enterprises expects to harvest a million tonnes from the forest estate we manage in the Hawkes Bay. We manage 1,289 hectares of radiata pine forest in Hawkes Bay region (four forestry investments), representing approximately 7% of our total estate under management. These are our youngest forest investments and their harvest is a few years away [...]
The collective term for the various tasks (such as pruning) to improve tree form and wood quality, during the period between when a forest crop is established and the first thinning.
Cost of Timber is a technical area of New Zealand Tax law relating to deductions for certain forestry expenditure. The main purpose of section DP 11 of the Income Tax Act 2007 is to allow a deduction for certain forestry expenditure that might not otherwise be deductible. A vendor is entitled to deduct the ‘cost [...]
In their post Another tall timber building record seeker (18 January 2017), NZ Logger tells of plans by the Norwegians to build the world's highest timber building. The 81m high, 18-storey Mjøstårnet building, constructed entirely from timber, is going up in the north of the capital, Oslo and is scheduled to be completed at the end [...]
Kiwi/San Fran footwear company, Allbirds shot to fame with their merino wool running shoes. They have unveiled their latest innovation, the 'Tree Collection' – shoes made from eucalyptus fibre. Allbirds' ethos is about sustainable material innovation. When customers told them that wool wasn't as cool as it could be in warm weather, the company set about finding alternative materials to [...]
