The softwood plantation sawn timber industry today welcomed the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service’s announcement it would formally investigate the industry’s complaints that offshore companies are unfairly dumping structural timber products into the Australian market.

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Timber has long been central to the life of the small Alpine town of Myrtleford. With some locals working in the old Sawmill since the 70’s, a healthy timber industry has been important to the town and surrounding businesses. That’s why the transformation of the existing mill into a state of the art plywood mill, undertaken by Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts (CHH), is not only big news for the Australian timber industry but also big news for Myrtleford.

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Keep ahead of the pack with designIT Series 5

The latest, up-to-the-minute version of designIT® software is now available for download. designIT series 5 is now an even more powerful tool for building practitioners. Upgrades include the new functionality incorporating a Reaction report for each member, providing designers with the flexibility to detail connections using Timber Framing Standards and proprietary connections and the Ability to design wall plates for both upper and lower storey load bearing walls. designIT Series 5 now has the ‘Special load cases’ functionality for the floor joist calculator. This allows designers to consider floor joists supporting concentrated loads from roofs and floors, parallel load bearing walls, etc. as well as hyJOIST trimming joists, and taking into account differential deflection.

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Australia’s first ‘world class’ Plywood Mill utilising ‘state of the art’ manufacturing equipment.

Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia has announced their plans to redevelop its Myrtleford facility in north-east Victoria. The proposed investment will transform the 35 year old site, which currently operates a Sawmill and a Plywood mill, into the largest Plywood Mill in Australia utilising state of the art manufacturing equipment.

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Understanding bushfire compliant construction

The catastrophic events of Black Saturday on the 7 February 2009 have resulted in a number of revisions to building codes in Australia. A contributing factor to their implementation is an attempt to ensure the tragic loss of life and property experienced that day is never repeated.

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