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Redwood sleeper dressing for furniture
Redwood sleepers can be dressed in a home workshop and be used to make furniture. Video / Grant Bradley
Business Hub: Andrea Scown first female CEO of Mitre 10
New Mitre 10 boss steps up to a timber shortage crisis and pandemic challenge.
Timber shortage: Commerce Commission seeks explanation
Timber giant Carter Holt Harvey has cut supplies to a number of building retail chains.
Marty Verry: Four causes of timber shortage - and what can be done
There are a number of reasons for the current timber shortage, writes Marty Verry.
Construction sector businesses get $160m+ wage grants
Builders, contractors, civil works businesses use Government support.
Sixty sawmill staff lose their jobs, told over Christmas holidays
Putaruru sawmill goes into receivership owing up to $3m with 60 job losses.
Northland sawmill closes owing ratepayer money
Northland timber processor owes ratepayers more than $800,000 in loan and interest.
NZ timber exporter Sequal signs big Saudi deal
The deal was signed in November and would move to its next level this year.
Timber company fined after contractor lost fingers in chipper
A timber processing company has been fined $44,000 and ordered to pay $20,000 in reparation after a contractor lost four fingers in
After 80 years, a family business folds
After 77 years and four generations in business, the Baker family are selling up their Katikati timber processing plant and sawmill...
80 jobs axed at Ohakune sawmill
Another 80 job losses announced today in a third sawmill unable to profitably export timber suggests the wood industry is in crisis, says a union representing workers in the sector.