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The Coalition will use the House to heap pressure on the Albanese Government over its controversial native forest carbon method from today, with a vote on Dan Tehan's motion to kill it due inside six sitting days and the Senate deciding the method's fate

Holmen will cut its Linghem sawmill in southern Sweden from 72,000 cubic metres a year to 26,000 and lay off 18 of its 30 workers, in what the Swedish group calls the weakest market for sawn timber in 30 years. That is according to Karolina Svensson, head

Australia's Timber Design Awards have outgrown exemplar projects, with more and more diverse examples of timber design than in past years. That is according to Kylan Low, the organiser of the 27th awards, who told Wood Central on Wednesday that entries ar

IKEA's suppliers have been promised they will feel nothing from the €1.2 billion the furniture giant took off its European prices last Tuesday. That is according to Jakub Jankowski, chief executive of Inter IKEA Group, who made the promise in an interview

A former salmon industry chief executive, a former Rio Tinto executive, and Snowy Hydro's community chief will tell Australia's foresters how their own industries made their case to the public, at a Canberra symposium whose standard registration rates clo

Plywood mills across Brazil shipped 183,100 cubic metres in August, 20 per cent more than in the month a 50 per cent American tariff first hit them a year earlier, and sold it at US$314 a cubic metre, 6 per cent below July. That is according to the custom

Importers bringing American softwood lumber into Canada will start paying a 25 per cent surtax on Tuesday, with plywood, LVL, and dissolving pulp subject to a 50 per cent surtax. That is according to Finance Canada, which published the tariff item by item

NSW taxpayers will be left to carry 95 per cent of the cost of running the Great Koala National Park over the 100 years its carbon method demands, with the credits the Minns Government says the park depends on covering just 5 per cent of the ongoing costs

The Australian and New Zealand Council for Fire and Emergency Services expects above average fuel loads and dry soil to lift bushfire risk across parts of Western Australia this spring, with the Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions, the forests the state t

Canberra has put close to SI$60 million into the fund that bought Kolombangara Forest Products and is now paying to train the plantation's heavy machinery operators. That is according to the Australian High Commission in Honiara, which announced the train