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In 2011, total shipments of US hardwood lumber to Australia and New Zealand reached 10,268 m3 in volume and USD 8.95 million in value, signalling a rise of 15% and 20

Australia's Logging industry plays an important role in downstream wood and paper products industries. According to IBISWorld industry analyst Alen Allday

Indonesia Log PricesIndonesian wooden furniture is moving upmarket in Australia with the opening of the Discount House Direct (DHD) in the central business district of Lismore, New South Wales

Vietnam has taken over Australia as the world’s largest supplier of wood chips to pulp mills in Asia. In 2011, Vietnam exported 5.4 million tons, triple that in 2007, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly

Export of wood chips from Australia is on the rebound, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. After last year’s ten-year low, shipments so far in 2010 are up 38 percent for pine chips and 12 percent for Eucalyptus chips

Australia, the world largest exporter of wood chips, reduced shipments by 28% during the first half of 2009. The biggest decline was that of softwood and hardwood chips to Japan, which were down 31% and 36

Lowe's Companies announced that the company has entered into a joint venture agreement with Australia's largest retailer, Woolworths Limited (ASX: WOW), to develop a network of home improvement stores for consumers in Australia

Carter Holt Harvey has begun a process to purchase the timber manufacturing operations and timber distribution business of the Weyerhaeuser Australia Group

Export prices for both pine and Eucalyptus wood chips have gone up substantially in 2008 in Australia as a result of increased demand in Japan and a tighter supply of wood chips throughout the Pacific

TOTAL DWELLING UNITS * The trend estimate for total dwelling units approved fell 4.2% in November 2008 and has fallen for 12 months. * The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwelling units approved fell 12.8%. PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSES * The trend estimate for private sector houses

The New Zealand McVicar Timber Group has been given the "all clear" for construction of a A$10 million plantation pine sawmill to begin in Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia

A construction sector boom has driven an unexpected rise in Australia's business investment in the second quarter of 2001 and is expected to underpin a recovery in capital spending in the coming year

Australia can teach the world a lot about plant and animal invasions, says Dr Richard Mack of Washington State University. Dr Mack, a Professor of Biological Sciences, has spent the past eleven months at CSIRO Entomology, a division of Australia's national science

. He also had to devise methods of storing and analysing very large amounts of data derived from whole trees. Dr Evans is currently running a commercial testing service on SilviScan with thousands of samples being tested from Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada and Sweden

Hardwood plantations in Queensland, Australia, have received a boost from early research results that predict a bright future for eucalypt plantations

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