In-Wood Issue 86
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In a Hard Place
Advertising people talk a lot about ‘push and pull’ strategies, and plenty of both will be needed to save the New Zealand wood industry’s most successful generic promotion campaign.
Japan Looking More Attractive
A changing Japanese log market is potentially good news for radiata pine exporters, existing on a China-only diet.
Bamboo Rising
It has serious ‘green cred’ and the wood industry should be worried about the bamboo challenge.
Doing it in Wood
A transtasman-backed project that could change the way the world looks at the construction of multi-storey commercial buildings is showing good trial form.
Shipping Feature
Favourable ocean freight rates, plenty of log boats and China on a radiata pine buying spree – all great news for New Zealand log exporters.
Back in Touch
Things are humming at the recently revamped Waiariki Institute of Technology’s School of Forestry, Wood Processing and Biotechnology.
Tailor-Made Solutions
The number of active ingredients available for wood preservation will be severely limited by tougher regulatory and economic conditions.
Time for Fresh Thinking
An architect of Australia’s most successful commercial afforestation program wants an Anzac effort to chart a new course.
‘Breathe in a and Hold’
Wood preservation can play a key role in ensuring that campaigns promoting the carbon-storing capability of timber hold true.
Help at last for PCP Exposed
After years of denial and procrastination the New Zealand Government has decided to Deal with PCP exposure to former sawmill workers.
BREAKING NEWS
Certification wars: PEFC fighting FSC monopoly
28 July 2010
The big guns may have been quiet for a while, but the battle between major certification brands PEFC and FSC is back on – just in time for the protagonists to vent their respective spleens at a major conference in Australia. Or will they?