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A Senate committee wants timber included in Australia’s sanctions on Russia, naming wood alongside blended oils in the sixth of eleven recommendations to the Albanese Government, with the forest sector reporting 100,000 cubic metres of suspect fibre entering the country every year. That is according to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, which […] The post Senate Urges…
Senior Labor senators have encouraged Australia’s timber industry to take Russian laminated veneer lumber to the Anti-Dumping Commission, with declared imports up 63 per cent in a year and prices in freefall. That is according to Raff Ciccone, deputy chair of the Senate’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, who made the suggestion with […] The post Labor Senators Back Dumping…
Argentine wood-product producer prices rose 0.9 per cent in July to their highest level in a year, finishing 20.7 per cent above the same month of 2025, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. INDEC published the figure on 18 August in its wholesale price system, where the wood division covers sawnwood, panels, […] The post Argentine Wood Prices Hit a One-Year High and…
Two of America’s largest prefab house builders have told investors they will build without the permanent steel chassis for design reasons and not for the money it saves, with the Niskanen Center counting that saving at US$5,000 to $10,000 a home. It comes as Gary Fleisher, an expert in modular construction, set out how far […] The post US Builders Say Design Not Price Opens New Markets for Factory…
The Cowper Street redevelopment is fit for a king, yet the executive architect on NSW’s first mass timber social housing warns that without a national CLT standard, Australia will struggle to build another. That is according to Noura Thaha from GroupGSA, who used a July Fifth Estate Project Files contribution to reveal that every element […] The post King Charles Housing Project Proves Australia…
Structural engineers will for the first time have a national method for designing cross-laminated timber floors, walls, and stairs, under a 46-page draft industry standard now out for comment. That is according to FWPA Standard D02, published on Tuesday, which Forest and Wood Products Australia has written to form the basis of a future CLT […] The post Australia Drafts Its First CLT Standard to…
One of the world’s best-known mass timber engineering practices will help design Brisbane’s National Aquatic Centre, with Vancouver’s Fast + Epp and Brisbane-born Robert Bird Group appointed structural engineers for the venue’s wave-form roof. That is according to both Robert Bird Group and Fast + Epp, and comes as the Queensland Government pushes local timber […] The post Brisbane Hires…
The US Forest Service has filed a proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule in its entirety, removing a national designation from more than 44 million acres of national forest while ordering no timber cutting anywhere across it. That is according to the US Department of Agriculture, which published the proposal alongside a draft environmental […] The post US Files to Scrap Roadless Rule but…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has returned wood processing to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, giving Taras Vysotskyi’s department until the end of the year to approve a national woodworking and furniture strategy running to 2030. That is according to the Programme of Activities Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi registered in the Verkhovna Rada on […] The post Ukraine’s Farm Ministry to…
Plywood shipped from Canada escaped a 50 per cent American duty by less than two hours, with Donald Trump suspending the first Section 338 tariffs in 96 years for three days as the two governments worked toward an interim trade agreement. That is according to a proclamation the US President signed on Tuesday, which moves […] The post Canadian Plywood Gets Last-Minute Reprieve as Trump Pauses…
