A CE standard for wood products has been recognised in Japan for the first time. This will simplify exports of construction timber to Japan for European sawmills.

The future of timber as a housing and construction material in Australia will be determined to a very large extent by the quality of soon-to-be-enacted illegal logging law. And as things stand, there is cause for international trepidation.

Editor’s Blog: There is a disease with a lethal liking for pine trees called terminal crook. And now there is an even more unsightly, pleasure-stunting blight on our landscapes called crook terminal.

Put four savvy sisters together with some American white oak and their own factory, and you have one of Australia’s most successful contemporary solidwood furniture producers.

‘Minimum material for maximum effect’ is a core creative mantra behind the international success of David Trubridge (pictured) – one of the southern hemisphere’s most successful contemporary furniture and lighting designers.