Forest Products Industry

US plywood imports were US$2.04 billion in January–August 2026, down 16% from US$2.44 billion in the same months of 2025, according to figures the United States reports to the UN Comtrade database. MDF imports fell 21% to US$711.5 million. Source: Timberbiz The fall came with a change in where the panels come from: Plywood from Vietnam, Indonesia and China totalled US$480.4 million, against US$953.8 million a year earlier (−50%). Plywood from Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand rose to US$484.4 million, from US$340.7 million (+42%). Malaysia was up 61%, Cambodia 38% and Thailand 28%. Canada became the largest plywood source, at US$295.9 million (+9%, a 14.5% share). In 2025 the largest was Vietnam, at US$696.4 million. Plywood from China was US$17.5 million, down 77%, 0.9% of the total. In MDF, Canada stayed the largest source at US$219.5 million (+1%, a 30.8% share). Chile supplied US$126.4 million (−23%) and Germany US$69.5 million (−38%).   The US Department of Commerce announced final determinations in its anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations of hardwood and decorative plywood from China, Indonesia and Vietnam on 16 July 2026, and the US International Trade Commission announced affirmative injury determinations on 19 August 2026. The trade figures cover all of HS 4412 (plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood, including LVL and blockboard), not only products within the scope of that case. For the full year 2025, US plywood imports were US$3.52 billion and MDF imports US$1.26 billion. Values are CIF, in US dollars, as reported by the United States to UN Comtrade and retrieved on 5 November 2026. Plywood is HS 4412; MDF is HS 4411.12–4411.14. Annual totals cover 2023 to 2025; the year-to-date comparison covers January to August, the latest month published. Source: UN Comtrade. Tables by country and a CSV file with values and net weights: https://cuzicn.com/us-plywood-mdf-imports-by-country/

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Myplant & Garden, Italy’s professional trade fair dedicated to the green sector, is launching the first trade fair initiative in Italy to bring together the entire forestry ecosystem, from sustainable forest management and urban forestry to agroforestry. Source: Timberbiz ‘Sistema Foresta’ (Forest System) is a new multidisciplinary platform designed to connect expertise, businesses and supply chains and develop new management, production and economic opportunities linked to Italy’s tree and forest heritage. The aim is to bring together expertise and professional skills in order to transform Italy’s tree and forest heritage into an increasingly well-known and effectively managed resource, capable of generating economic, environmental and territorial value. The initiative has already secured the endorsement of almost all organisations and institutions representing Italy’s forestry sector. Italy’s forests cover one third of the country’s territory, spanning more than 11 million hectares: an asset with significant economic potential that has yet to be fully tapped, according to the organisers. In fact, only 18–20% of forests have an active or currently valid forest management plan, while the area of forests certified as being under sustainable management stands at around 10%. The expansion of forested areas, largely due to the abandonment of agricultural and mountain areas and the reduction in silvicultural activities, has not been matched by a corresponding development in forest management. This situation opens up new prospects for timber supply chains, biomass, non-timber forest products, forest nurseries, technologies, professional services and land maintenance. Risk prevention, ecosystem protection and the production of renewable raw materials are increasingly interconnected with opportunities for economic development. The figures for Italy’s horticulture and nursery sector also give an indication of the economic significance of the green industry. In 2025, the value of production reached €3.52 billion, up 8.1% year on year and marking a new all-time high, according to ISTAT data processed and released in advance by Myplant & Garden last September. The floriculture segment, which includes flowers and potted plants, is worth €1.64 billion (+8.2%), while the nursery sector reaches €1.88 billion (+8.1%), confirming Italy’s position among Europe’s leading producers and as one of the main international suppliers of flowers and plants. The potential also extends to trees outside forests. In 2025, nearly 3.7 million trees were planted in Italy, 17% more than in 2024, across more than 5,300 hectares. According to the latest scientific research, these new plantings are capable of generating approximately €28 million per year in ecosystem services, for each year of life of the tree stock established. Another opportunity is represented by agroforestry, which integrates trees, crops and livestock into production systems. In Italy, it currently covers approximately 1.3 million hectares, equivalent to 11% of the utilised agricultural area, and can contribute to income diversification, soil protection and the resilience of agricultural businesses. It is against this backdrop that ‘Sistema Foresta’ (Forest System) is being launched, the new section of Myplant & Garden dedicated to sustainable forest management, urban forestry and agroforestry. The initiative will bring together forest nursery operators, technicians, arborists, agronomists, designers, researchers, businesses, public bodies and operators across the supply chains within a single trade fair setting.

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A US$2.8 million partnership between the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the US Forest Service will help Pacific Island landowners protect forests and prepare for wildfire, drought, and severe storms. Source: Timberbiz The Pacific Forest Resilience Program will fund five new Forest Service-affiliated junior extension agents through UH Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR). The positions will serve American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. Applications for all five positions open November 9, 2026, with agents expected to begin working in their respective locations by May 2027. Funded by the US Forest Service and delivered through CTAHR, the program will support implementation of the participating jurisdictions’ Forest Action Plans. The five positions were developed with the Forest Service to support that work. “Many Pacific Islands face shared challenges, from wildfires and drought to severe storms,” said Ashley McGuigan, program lead and CTAHR extension specialist. “A regional approach brings forestry programs, agencies and communities together to learn from one another, share knowledge and resources, and support locally driven efforts to sustain forests and the communities that depend on them.” The program will bring together the US Forest Service, local forestry agencies, extension personnel, and communities to develop workshops, knowledge-sharing events, and educational resources supporting land stewardship practices such as agroforestry, reforestation, and pest management.  

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Amazon has signed a deal with Australia’s largest Christmas tree farm and will be delivering the festive foliage across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Source: News.com.au The deal means 1.8m radiata pine trees grown in country Victoria can be ordered and delivered to front doors in Australia’s three largest cities. The trees come from the Yeowarra Tree Farm, 120km southeast of Melbourne, and come via Amazon’s contracts with family-owned grocer Harris Farm Markets. Yeowarra farm manager Josh Sutherland will oversee the felling of 80,000 trees in the coming weeks. “I love Christmas, absolutely. I think it’s a great time of year. I think I was raised that way. Mum absolutely loves Christmas and it rubbed off on all of us in the family,” he said. “We do have a retail spot on farm, where people can come and grab their tree. “When you get to work out there and see all the families and the kids running around and how happy everyone is – it does help when you’ve got a job that brings smiles to people’s faces.” Yeowarra Tree Farm is the largest in the country, Mr Sutherland said, and 80,000 trees would be cut this year from an unirrigated 103ha patch. Elsewhere, they tend to beef cattle and grow berries. The farm has stayed in one family for 40 years, and the Amazon deal is not an exclusive offtake agreement. “We are consistently growing and then hopefully this Amazon deal can really help push that along,” Mr Sutherland said. Given the tree’s temporary life span, customers cannot pick their exact delivery date, but tress will be delivered from November 27 to December 13. The trees should last four to six weeks after they are cut but need to be watered and kept out of direct sun. Amazon Prime members will pay $199 including delivery, and non-members will pay $249. “I think the industry as a whole is growing as well, which is really important for us, and I think this Amazon deal will really open it up to a lot more customers.” The tree farmer describes the radiata as particularly hardy plants, which have been well watered with wet conditions of late after two particularly dry years. Bushfires tore through huge portions of the Victorian countryside earlier this year. “From October last year, the two years before that were very, very dry. I know there’s a lot of issues going through a lot of farms, really everywhere across southern and eastern (Australia). “That was a bit nerve-racking, especially for the younger trees. The older stuff’s pretty well established. “A lot of dairy farms and cattle farms had a very tough time. We’re quite lucky that we’re predominantly trees and they’re pretty hardy.” The coming El Nino effect over summer would make the harvest cutting and moving around the farm easier, he said.

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Kapitol Group’s Andrew Morrison told Offsite26 that Australia doesn’t have a modular construction problem; it has a certainty problem, drawing on a year of feasibility testing across $4 billion of potential projects to argue for accountable, contractor-led delivery. Source: Timberbiz Australia does not have a modular construction problem. It has a certainty problem. That was the argument Andrew Morrison, of Melbourne-based construction and engineering group Kapitol Group, put to delegates at Offsite26, drawing on 12 months of feasibility work across $4 billion in potential volumetric modular projects to make the case for a fundamentally different delivery model. Mr Morrison began by clarifying the title of his own talk, having already fielded some feedback on it. Tier one builders “owning” volumetric modular construction (VMC), he said, does not mean physically owning the manufacturing. Nor does it mean local manufacturers stop mattering. What he meant by ownership is accountability: one party holding the balance sheet, the project pipeline and the delivery capability needed to stand behind the outcome from design through to completion. “That’s really the idea behind the title,” he said, framing the rest of his talk as a sharing of lessons rather than a sales pitch. The pressure Mr Morrison described is structural. Australia is well behind the National Housing Accord’s target of 240,000 homes a year, construction costs are rising, and supply chains are under strain, particularly in Queensland. Meanwhile, major infrastructure projects are drawing trades away from residential work. Morrison pointed to Kapitol’s M3 data centre project, where 800 electricians are on site at once, against a Victorian licensed electrician pool numbering only a few thousand. Lead hands on data centre projects can earn around $300,000 a year, he said, a figure residential work simply cannot match. With the Brisbane Olympics and an expanding defence pipeline set to pull further on the same trade base, he questioned how governments intend to deliver on their housing promises at all. Part of the appeal Mr Morrison described is price stability across jurisdictions. Feasibility work in Queensland, where supply chain pressure is currently most acute, showed construction costs running at nearly double those in Victoria, whereas the price of a volumetric module itself does not vary depending on which state it is destined for. He pointed to Singapore, where around 47% to 48% of new homes are now built using MMC, as evidence that the approach is not new globally, only new to Australia at this scale. Kapitol’s own experience with modular construction at scale predates this residential push. Volumetric modules, including battery rooms, switch rooms and chillers, are now standard in the data centre sector, driven by labour constraints and program pressures rather than policy. The company’s first fully modular data centre, built for NEXTDC in Darwin from 17 modules, shaved three months off the program. Morrison’s pitch is that the same discipline now needs to be applied to housing, “the same problem, just at a much larger scale”. Rather than pitching modular on cost, Mr Morrison reframed the conversation around certainty of program, certainty of revenue commencement and certainty of delivery, the language institutional capital actually uses. Kapitol’s focus, he stressed, is not class one detached housing but higher-density asset classes: high-rise purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), build-to-rent and hotels, where long-term owner-operators care as much about quality and revenue timing as they do about cost. Institutional capital, he noted, is currently showing a stronger appetite for this model than government. That appetite prompted Kapitol to run feasibility studies across roughly $4 billion of potential projects over the past year, a figure Mr Morrison acknowledged was inflated by two large projects worth around $1 billion between them, but still substantial. The exercise involved trades, consultants, and building surveyors, and was tested to the point where Kapitol was prepared to sign contracts had clients chosen to proceed. Just as important, he said, was that the process proved modular is not the right answer for every project, a finding he considered as valuable as any positive result. The pattern across the studies was consistent. Program savings sat at 20% to 35%, once a single outlier project with heavy heritage constraints, which returned only 14%, was excluded. Construction cost savings were far more modest, ranging from cost-neutral to around 10 per cent in highly optimised cases, a point Morrison used to push back on the assumption that faster automatically means cheaper. The more significant finding, in his view, was that modules typically represent around half of a project’s overall capital cost. Once half the build moves off-site, modular construction stops being a subcontract package and becomes the project’s core procurement strategy, reshaping decisions on cranes, logistics, shipping and site sequencing. Kapitol’s clearest proof point was a live, parallel tender for a 43-storey PBSA tower at A’Beckett Street in Melbourne. Kapitol ran a traditional construction proposal alongside a self-funded modular alternative developed with its own consultant team, delivering a full volumetric modular solution within eight weeks of a six-week tender period. The results, Mr Morrison said, were striking: a seven-month program saving that would have moved practical completion from June, a poor point in the academic calendar for student accommodation, to November, capturing a full extra academic year of revenue. The modular scheme also delivered 10% more beds by replacing conventional column-and-blade-wall structures with a more efficient modular frame, which allowed an extra single-occupancy unit per level, alongside a 10 per cent reduction in construction cost, verified against a traditionally priced comparison. Despite an external project manager recommending the modular option, the project did not proceed at the board level. The combined novelty of a new delivery model, an unfamiliar funding profile and the fact that no 43-storey volumetric modular tower has yet been built in Australia proved too much to absorb at once. The exercise was not wasted, though. Kapitol has since entered early contractor involvement (ECI) arrangements with the same client, who Morrison said is now taking modular seriously as a feasible delivery pathway. Kapitol also uses the same feasibility discipline to […]

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Planning approval has been granted for a 15-storey mass-timber commercial building in Melbourne’s Cremorne, set to be the tallest mass-timber office building in Australia. The proposed development at 57–71 Stephenson Street, Cremorne, represents a significant advancement in sustainable commercial construction in Australia. Source: Timberbiz Designed to establish a new benchmark for environmentally responsible building, the 15-storey commercial office development will showcase the potential of mass timber construction in a major urban environment. Once completed, it is expected to become Australia’s tallest mass-timber office building. The project is being developed by Endor Development, with development management by Vettex and architectural design by Edition Office. The development has received planning approval from the Victorian Government, marking an important milestone for the project and for the wider adoption of mass timber construction in Australia. Occupying a site of approximately 1,616 square metres, the development will deliver approximately 21,671 square metres of gross floor area, including 13,145 square metres of net lettable office accommodation. The building will incorporate ground-floor retail and food and beverage opportunities, together with shared communal areas and facilities designed to support a contemporary workplace environment. Its location within Cremorne’s evolving commercial precinct provides access to Melbourne’s CBD, public transport, established businesses and the area’s growing creative and technology industries. The defining feature of the development is its extensive use of engineered timber as the primary structural material above ground. The building will utilise cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor panels supported by glue-laminated timber (glulam) columns and structural elements. This approach replaces much of the conventional steel and concrete structure typically associated with commercial buildings of this scale. Mass timber offers considerable environmental advantages. Timber is a renewable construction material that can store carbon absorbed during the growth of trees. Its use can also reduce the embodied carbon associated with manufacturing and transporting conventional structural materials. The project has been designed with low-carbon concrete largely restricted to the basement and ground-floor structure, allowing timber to form the principal structural system throughout the upper levels. This construction methodology is particularly significant given the building’s height. The design seeks to demonstrate that engineered timber can be successfully integrated into large-scale commercial developments while maintaining structural performance, occupant safety and architectural quality. One of the project’s most innovative aspects is its approach to fire safety. Conventional building regulations provide a relatively limited pathway for exposed structural timber in buildings exceeding eight storeys. To address this challenge, the project team has developed a performance-based fire engineering solution. The approach incorporates comprehensive sprinkler protection and specialist engineering designed to ensure the structural timber maintains its required integrity during a fire. The engineering strategy also considers the natural charring properties of mass timber, whereby the outer layer chars and helps protect the structural material beneath. This enables the architectural design to retain exposed timber surfaces rather than concealing the structure behind conventional fire-protective linings. The project demonstrates how innovative engineering, careful design and performance-based assessment can expand the possibilities for timber construction in Australia. Environmental performance is central to the development’s design philosophy. The project aims to significantly reduce embodied carbon compared with a conventional steel-and-concrete office building. Sustainability consultants Finding Infinity have estimated an embodied-carbon reduction of approximately 89 per cent against a typical commercial building, subject to the project’s assessment methodology and assumptions. The building will also incorporate extensive rooftop and façade solar photovoltaic systems, rainwater collection and reuse, energy-efficient building services and integrated landscaping. Its environmental ambitions include targeting Passivhaus certification, a six-star Green Star rating and a four-star NABERS Embodied Carbon rating. These initiatives are intended to reduce both the environmental impact of construction and the ongoing energy requirements of building operations. The project seeks to demonstrate that commercial buildings can move beyond simply reducing energy consumption towards becoming more efficient, environmentally responsible places of work. Designed by Edition Office, the building combines contemporary commercial architecture with a strong emphasis on natural materials, greenery and communal spaces. The design incorporates landscaped areas, planted perimeter zones and internal voids intended to bring natural light, vegetation and a greater sense of openness into the workplace. The ground floor has been conceived as an activated and publicly accessible space, rather than simply a conventional office entrance. Food and beverage facilities, communal areas and pedestrian connections will contribute to the surrounding streetscape and encourage greater interaction between building occupants and the wider Cremorne community. The project also proposes a substantial public benefit through the provision of space for community and not-for-profit uses. The development at 57–71 Stephenson Street is an important example of how mass timber can influence the future of commercial construction. By combining engineered timber, advanced fire engineering, renewable energy, integrated landscaping and contemporary workplace design, the project challenges traditional approaches to high-rise office development. Its planning approval, granted on 28 October 2026, represents a significant step towards delivering a landmark building that could influence future development across Melbourne and other Australian cities. Ultimately, the Stephenson Street development is more than an office building. It is an opportunity to demonstrate the environmental, structural and architectural potential of mass timber at scale, setting a new benchmark for sustainable commercial development and helping establish timber as a viable material for Australia’s next generation of urban buildings.

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Use of salvaged pine supplies following the Walwa-Mt Lawson bushfires in January this year is winding down as Hyne’s Jingellic Road mill ceases using the timber in its processing. Source: Tumut and Adelong Times The fire, which broke out west of Walwa on 5 January, burnt more than 100,000 hectares before it was fully contained in February. It also took with it about 10,500 ha, nearly 80% of the HVP pine plantations at Shelley south of Walwa. After assessment of the damage approximately half of the fire damaged plantation was of an age to be salvaged, much of which includes high-quality sawlog to be processed at the Hyne Timber sawmill in Tumbarumba, and the mill began taking delivery of the logs in February this year. At the time the salvage began, site manager Kristina Kaminski said the team at the mill were “ready to do their bit and salvage as much of this timber as possible over coming months”. The mill processed salvaged timber for several years following the Black Summer Bushfires of 2019/20 which decimated pine plantations in the Tumut and Tumbarumba forestry regions. “We have been here before and the team knows what to do. We are part of a whole of industry, as well as community, coordinated effort and we Will certainly be doing our bit here in Tumba,” she said. That salvage program has now run its course and will end entirely in coming weeks. ‘The salvaged logs for our structural framing manufacturing ended in September,” a Hyne spokesperson said. “We are still processing Some smaller logs from salvage for another month or so. “This supplies other customers such as pallet manufacturers. “There Will be no more salvage from the Victorian fires after that.” Although heavy vehicle movements will slow to the Hyne mill, salvaged logs will continue to be seen travelling through the region as they take supplies to other processors such as mills and Visy in Tumut.

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The National Timber and Hardware Association (NTHA) has appointed Paul Whitaker as its new Chief Executive Officer, bringing more than 25 years of experience across the hardware, timber and building supplies industry. Source: Timberbiz Mr Whitaker’s appointment comes as outgoing CEO David Little prepares to step down after almost eight years leading NTHA. Mr Whitaker began his career managing independent and co-operative supermarkets in the Riverina before joining the Donaldson family in 1999 as a Mitre 10 Store Manager. He went on to spend 14 years managing single and multi-site independent timber, steel and building supply businesses across NSW before joining Home Timber and Hardware Group as Trade Business Manager for NSW/ACT, supporting independent merchants to establish, grow and develop their trade businesses. For almost a decade, he served as general manager of the Hudson Mitre 10 Group’s 14 NSW/ACT sites, further strengthening his leadership, commercial and sector expertise across the timber and building supplies industry. His career has taken him across independent retail, trade development and multi-site operations, giving him extensive experience across the sector he will now lead. As Mr Little prepares to leave NTHA and embark on a new chapter in Hong Kong, he described leading the Association as one of the great privileges of his career. He thanked members and industry colleagues for their support and commitment, and expressed confidence in NTHA’s future, highlighting its experienced Board, capable management team and clear direction. The transition will be supported by Mr Little, NTHA President Peter Hutchison, the Board and the management team over the coming months, with the Association’s advocacy, member support, training and industry programs continuing as usual.

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Two of the fund manager’s (AAM) own mills, at Bathurst and Mount Gambier, would anchor the new business, with $100 million sought in equity and the rest in debt. Source: WoodCentral Australia’s family-run softwood sawmills have a new would-be buyer, with a $1 billion Brisbane agribusiness fund manager setting up a business to buy mills whose owners are planning for succession. That is according to the Australian Financial Review’s Street Talk column, which reported yesterday that AAM Investment Group has hired corporate adviser Tiger & Bear to raise $150 million for the business. “The divestment of multi-generational assets through succession planning” is one of the forces AAM has told investors are driving returns in agriculture, according to a 2023 disclosure for one of its funds. Managing director Garry Edwards, the son of a timber producer, is now banking on the successions playing out across timber’s mostly family-run operations, with AAM targeting businesses that need a capital partner to corporatise and scale, the Financial Review reveals. The Financial Review named two mills as the base of the new business, AAM Timber’s sawmill at Bathurst in central-west New South Wales and its Suttontown mill on the edge of Mount Gambier in South Australia, which unnamed sources told the paper have made strong returns. Both now sit in other AAM vehicles, the column said, with the Bathurst mill held in a Sustainable Softwood Trust that AAM says can process 92,000 cubic metres of sawlogs a year. Suttontown came to AAM in 2021, when Mount Gambier’s McDonnell family agreed to sell the mill nearly 80 years after founding NF McDonnell & Sons, in a sale the Australian Forest Products Association said marked “the end of an era” for the family. At the time, Edwards said that the mill, which employed 125 people and processed just over 400,000 tonnes of softwood logs each year, was “a core part of what is our expansion in regards to timber supply and timber processing”. Between them, the mills cut plantation pine into landscaping, fencing, and DIY products for major retailers, as well as softwood for the pallets and packaging used across the logistics sector. AAM Timber also trades under its own name at Compton and Yahl near Mount Gambier, and owns Perma-Log Timbers at Narangba, north of Brisbane, which treats plantation pine logs for piling, fencing, and landscaping. Investors have been told the new business will be a sector consolidator backing sustainable softwood rather than hardwood and native forest timber, The Financial Review said, although it named only the Bathurst and Mount Gambier mills as moving into it. AAM’s timber arm holds three plantations alongside its mills, according to the 2023 disclosure, under what AAM calls an “owner-operator” model.

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Kyogle timber mill closed its doors last week. This facility employed more than 60 people at its peak. Only a skeleton crew has been left to decommission the Summerland Way, New South Wales site. Source: Timberbiz “We are importing more timber from France and other countries while our local timber mills are being locked down,” Nationals Member for Page, Kevin Hogan, said. Nationals Candidate for Lismore Dylan Butcher said the closure was a gut punch to Kyogle and has questioned how the local state Labor MP, who is also the Minister for the North Coast, could stand by while local jobs disappeared. “When it was running at full steam, this mill would have been one of the biggest private employers in Kyogle. Those are local jobs, local wages and local families,” Mr Butcher said. “When a mill closes in a town this size, it’s not just the workers who lose out. It’s the cafe they buy lunch from, the mechanic who services their ute, the footy club their kids play for and the school their kids go to. “These are skilled, specialised jobs. Labor’s answer is money to retrain, but people who’ve spent years in timber aren’t going to retrain and become baristas. Most will likely have to leave Kyogle to keep working in their trade, and they’ll take their families with them.” Mr Hogan said the closure also raised serious concerns about the long-term future of the local timber industry. “Once these mills close, they are very difficult to bring back. We risk losing local jobs, infrastructure and specialised skills that have been built up over generations,” Mr Hogan said. “The timber industry has been an important part of the Kyogle community for more than a century. These are highly specialised skills that we cannot afford to lose.”

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For decades, the standard playbook for the global forest products sector was dictated by predictable, cyclical elements: changing weather fronts, land access, and regional timber supply.

Today, however, the primary variable dictating whether a logging crew breaks even or goes bankrupt is no longer the diameter of the stand or the proximity of the mill- it is the chaotic epicenter of global politics.

The global energy grid has been upended by two major geopolitical flashpoints.

First, the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East has heavily choked critical refining corridors out of the Gulf. Compounding this, the ongoing war in Ukraine has turned refineries into direct tactical targets, with Ukrainian drone strikes successfully knocking out Russian diesel production infrastructure at an alarming rate.

In a controversial bid to curb skyrocketing inflation ahead of the US midterm elections, President Donald Trump executed a stunning geopolitical pivot, lifting Treasury sanctions to strike a major deal directly with Vladimir Putin to import millions of tonnes of Russian diesel into global markets. This highly contested maneuver has sparked intense bipartisan backlash and fury from Kyiv, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warning that opening western revenue streams to Russian energy directly funds Moscow’s wartime infrastructure while its military simultaneously hammers Ukraine’s domestic power grid.

Yet, despite this high-stakes political maneuvering, the global diesel squeeze remains locked in a vice, pushing fuel prices to unmapped, volatile territory and leaving loggers from the American South to Europe facing a historic margin crisis.

Logging is fundamentally one of the most carbon-heavy, machinery-reliant processing sectors in the world.  Every singular metric ton of logs brought out of a forest to a delivery yard requires a monumental amount of fuel. From multi-ton feller bunchers, skidders, and forwarders operating deep in-woods, to the heavy distribution trucks tasked with carrying over 30,000 pounds of raw cargo to regional sawmills, the entire process runs almost exclusively on diesel.

Historically, diesel fuel hovered comfortably around a manageable quarter of a timber operation’s running expenses.

Over the past several months, that model has evaporated. Fuel has ballooned to ingest up to 45% of total operating overheads. In the United States, mill managers and contract crews report that filling a single standard logging truck now costs an astronomical $1,350, with retail diesel averaging north of $6.20 per gallon.

Across the Atlantic, the crisis is mirrored with devastating clarity: European diesel averages have climbed dramatically, while in the United Kingdom, diesel prices at the pump are touching record highs over the £2 per litre mark.

This has driven up long-distance wood movements and put low-value pulpwood and roundwood deliveries in absolute jeopardy.

What makes this fuel shock so uniquely devastating to loggers is their total lack of pricing power. Unlike standard retail or freight haulage sectors that can pass direct fuel surcharges immediately down the pipeline, logging contractors sit locked into rigid procurement structures.

Raw log values at the mill gate have remained largely flat, leaving independent contractors to absorb 100% of the geopolitical price shock internally.

The systemic damage is global. In New Zealand, logging contractors are fighting a 25% surge in operating expenses, causing supply-line stoppages in major export hubs. In regions like the Southern United States, small-scale, family run crews are parking their equipment permanently rather than bleeding capital with every haul. While short-term emergency interventions – such as the temporary highway use of untaxed, dyed agricultural diesel- provide brief breathing room, they act merely as temporary band-aids on a deep structural wound.

The message for the global forestry infrastructure must be heeded. If mills want to secure their log supply through the coming seasons, they can no longer treat loggers as elastic service providers who can indefinitely swallow the cost of global instability. Mill pricing structures must adapt to the new realities of the fuel grid.

Without immediate price adjustment mechanisms or structured global fuel tax suspensions, the very foundation of the wood supply chain will continue to splinter, leaving mill yards empty and premium timber stranded at the stump.

Robin Peach – Editor  IFI Magazine

Editors Comment October/November IFI Magazine

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The 2026 Wood Design & Building Awards took centre stage in Calgary, Canada celebrating excellence in wood architecture and design at the opening of the Calgary Wood Solutions Conference. Source: Timberbiz The Canadian Wood Council’s annual awards program, now in its 42nd year, recognizes the outstanding work of architectural professionals from Canada and around the world. This year’s event showcased 27 projects: 14 selected by the Wood Design & Building Awards jury, four receiving special sponsored awards, and nine receiving WoodWorks regional wood design awards. The winning projects demonstrate the versatility of wood across building types and scales, and the ingenuity of the teams behind them. “Congratulations to this year’s award recipients, whose work gives us much to admire and even more to look forward to,” said Derek Nighbor, President and CEO of the Canadian Wood Council. “Through their creativity, skill, and ambition, these teams are showing how thoughtful wood design can create places that are more inspiring, more enduring and better suited to the needs of people and communities. Their achievements move the conversation forward and point to exciting possibilities for the future of design and construction.” Technology is changing how buildings are conceived, engineered and constructed, and this year’s winning projects demonstrate how wood architecture is advancing in tandem. Innovations in wood products, engineering, and prefabrication are enabling increasingly sophisticated structural and architectural solutions, while retaining the warmth, character, and human qualities that set wood apart. From carefully resolved smaller projects to ambitious developments with a significant urban presence, the 2026 recipients demonstrate that innovation in wood design is taking place at every scale. 2026 Award Recipients Honour Muscowpetung Powwow Arbour (Muscowpetung Saulteaux Nation, Treaty 4, Saskatchewan) | Oxbow Architecture & Richard Kroeker Design Limberlost Place (Toronto, Ontario) | Moriyama Teshima Architects with Acton Ostry Architects Knight Building (Big Sky, Montana) | Integrated Design Cubed (IDCUBED); NKBAK; Peter Rose + Partners Vonnegut Cabins (Thoreau, New Mexico) | ColoradoBuildingWorkshop at the University of Colorado Denver X24 (Rectorat de l’Académie de Créteil) (Paris, France) | DREAM and KOZ (now AA Group) in joint venture   Merit Chief Leonard George Building (Vancouver, British Columbia) | GBL Architects Inc. House for Rejuvenation (Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea) | JK-AR Koffler Scientific Reserve (King City, Ontario) | Montgomery Sisam Architects FortWhyte Alive Buffalo Crossing Paul Albrechtsen Visitor Centre (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | Stantec Architecture Ltd. PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity (Venice, Italy) | Marlon Blackwell Architects with TEN x TEN Studio, D.I.R.T. Studio, and Stephen Burks Man Made Kìwekì Point (Ottawa, Ontario) | Patkau Architects Inc.   Citation The Seed (Shanghai, China) | Challenge Design & Jaz Build Tribeca Triplex (New York, New York) | Julian von der Schulenburg LLC   Industry Leadership Kalesnikoff Modular Facility (Castlegar, British Columbia) | Stanley Office of Architecture (SOA) Sustainable Forestry Initiative Sponsored Award University of Southern Maine Crewe Center for the Arts (Portland, Maine) | Perkins Eastman Architects Western Red Cedar Sponsored Awards A Legacy in Wood: Renewing a Home for Generations (Canmore, Alberta)| HSS Design Build – Designer Tla’amin Ems Aye – Our House Cultural Facility (Qathet (Powell River), British Columbia) | Mackin Architects Ltd.   Wood Preservation Canada Sponsored Award Muscowpetung Powwow Arbour (Muscowpetung Saulteaux Nation, Treaty 4, Saskatchewan) | Oxbow Architecture &Richard Kroeker Design WoodWorks BC Wood Design Awards Chief Leonard George Building (Vancouver, British Columbia) | GBL Architects Inc. Fulmer Family Centre for Childhood Studies (North Vancouver, British Columbia) | Public Architecture + Design The Hive (Vancouver, British Columbia) | DIALOG   WoodWorks Alberta, Prairie Wood Design Awards 212 Saskatchewan Crescent East (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) | Oxbow Architecture FortWhyte Alive Buffalo Crossing Paul Albrechtsen Visitor Centre (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | Stantec Architecture Ltd. Coronation Park Sports and Recreation Centre (Edmonton, Alberta) | Designed in joint venture by hcma architecture + design and Dub Architects in collaboration with FaulknerBrowns   WoodWorks Ontario Wood Design Awards Limberlost Place (Toronto, Ontario) | Moriyama Teshima Architects with Acton Ostry Architects Brightwood – 150 Wissler (Waterloo, Ontario) | mcCallumSather Making Home at 97 Victoria Street North (Kitchener, Ontario) | BNKC Architects Inc.   Projects were considered for creativity, design excellence, and the innovative and appropriate use of wood in meeting project objectives. “The jury brought an extraordinary depth of experience to this year’s program, but just as importantly, they brought real care and thoughtfulness to the process,” said Ioana Lazea, Senior Manager for the program at the Canadian Wood Council. “We had 149 submissions this year and selecting from such a strong field called for rigorous discussion and some difficult decisions. We are deeply grateful to Steven, Susan and Sasa for the time, expertise, and perspective they contributed. The projects recognized this year reflect both the high standard they brought to the jury room and the remarkable work taking place across the profession.”

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Nippon Paper Industries said it will cease production of graphic paper and pulp at a plant damaged by a powerful earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in July. Source: Nippon The company made the decision after concluding that repairing or replacing production equipment at the mill in Yatsushiro would take three to four years and significant costs. It will explore new business opportunities at the site. Nippon Paper expects to book about 20 billion yen in losses related to the earthquake in the year ending in March 2027, including 15.1 billion yen for the first half. Including other disaster-related losses, the company expects to swing to a consolidated net loss of 40 billion yen in the year, compared with a profit of 11.7 billion yen the previous year. Nippon Paper will transfer production of newsprint and other items at the Yatsushiro plant to its other mills in Japan and outsource production of some products to other companies.

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Chinese commercial space firm Light Year Explorer has manufactured a rocket fairing with a wooden outer skin as part of the company’s push for lower-cost, mass-produced launch vehicles. The Jiangsu-based firm uses a lightweight plywood outer skin and metal frame to cut costs and time for commercial satellite launches source: South China Morning Post The design of the protective shell uses low-density plywood formed into a smooth aerodynamic curve, supported by an internal metal framework to bear loads, according to the Jiangsu-based company. “This configuration matches traditional composite fairings in key performance areas such as weight, structural rigidity, radio wave transparency and noise reduction, while reducing production costs and shortening manufacturing time markedly,” the company said in a social media post. “The 4.2-metre (13.8-foot) diameter fairing is tailored for mainstream commercial rockets. It is sized to handle multi-satellite ‘ride-share’ missions and large single payloads to support high-frequency launches for satellite constellations.” It said the fairing would undergo tests and validation procedures to finalise the design and deliver it to customers. A rocket fairing acts as the protective nose cone shielding satellites and other payloads during the initial ascent through Earth’s atmosphere. It protects equipment from intense aerodynamic pressure, heating and noise while maintaining its shape. Once the rocket exits the atmosphere, the fairing separates and falls away, and the load is released to enter its predetermined orbit. Conventionally, these structures are built from aluminium alloys or advanced composite materials. Their high manufacturing costs and long production cycles can limit the frequency of commercial satellite launches. Chinese commercial space companies have been exploring cost-effective technologies, including reusable rockets, to enable affordable, frequent and sustainable launches to open up possibilities for large-scale commercial space exploration. The United States maintains a lead in reusable rocket technology, mainly driven by commercial firm SpaceX, which has completed hundreds of successful booster landings and reuses. Light Year Explorer said it was focusing on developing cost-effective structural components for rockets. The firm said it manufactured rocket components, including stainless steel tanks, wooden fairings and corrugated cylinder-cone segments, that together made up about 60 per cent of a vehicle’s weight. Scientists around the world have been experimenting with wood for space applications. Wood can burn cleanly with minimal pollution, unlike metal which can leave behind particles when it re-enters the atmosphere. Wood might also be more durable in the vacuum of space free from water, oxygen and insects. In 2024, the world’s first wooden satellite, LignoSat, developed by Kyoto University researchers, was released into space from the International Space Station. The 10cm (four-inch) cube orbited Earth for four months, although scientists were not able to establish reliable communication with it from the ground, thought to be due to software and antenna deployment problems. The next launch is set for next year, with the goal of ground communication, according to the April edition of Kizuna, the Japanese government’s official magazine.  

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Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou (TRONP), the post-settlement governance entity for Ngāti Porou, says Gisborne District Council cannot claim a clean bill of health from the Finlayson review while important questions about its historic regulatory performance and current issues remain unresolved. Source: Timberbiz TRONP Interim Chief Executive Henare Walker says Ngāti Porou landowners and communities are increasingly being caught between local and central government over forestry regulation and responsibility. “The panel found Council’s current consenting and enforcement approach was broadly justified, but the review itself acknowledges historic shortcomings in Council monitoring. Those issues deserve proper examination,” he said. “Council is making regulatory decisions with significant consequences for Ngāti Porou whenua and landowners. The regulator needs to acknowledge the role it has played in the long history of poor land-use outcomes in our rohe, and then we need to all move forward” Mr Walker says arguments over who is responsible are not helping Ngāti Porou. “We are being left in the middle while our landowners and communities deal with the consequences. We need local and central government working with us on solutions, not pointing at each other.” The report also identifies unresolved issues around forestry slash discharges and wider land-use transition. TRONP says Ngāti Porou must have a leadership role in determining how that work develops. “The Crown has been part of this story for decades and the report is clear it has an important role in what happens next. Ngāti Porou needs a leadership role in determining the direction, the priorities and what success looks like,” Mr Walker said. TRONP welcomes a planned meeting between its Board and GDC governance representatives on 30 November. Council is already aware of TRONP’s aspiration for a stronger Ngāti Porou leadership role in decisions affecting the long-term future of the rohe. “We cannot keep dealing with this one consent, one clean-up or one program at a time. We need to be thinking about what we want our whenua and our rohe to look like in 30, 50 or 100 years, and making decisions now that take us towards that future,” Mr Walker said. TRONP is calling for transparent scrutiny of Council’s historic monitoring performance and a jointly developed approach to regulatory improvement and long-term land-use transition, consistent with its position of “Right land. Right use.”

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  Eight outstanding businesses and individuals have earned top honours at the 2026 TTHG (Timber Towers Hardware Group/Mitre 10) Awards of Excellence NSW/ACT, celebrating the people driving success across the industry. Sources: Timberbiz, NTHA From exceptional customer service to standout garden centres, trade operations and local hardware stores, this year’s winners demonstrate the breadth of achievement across the TTHG NSW/ACT network. Held recently at the Crowne Plaza Terrigal, the awards recognised excellence across eight categories, putting the spotlight on the businesses and people making their mark in their communities and across the industry. NTHA Member WHS/HR Manager Vicki Stableford attended the event to congratulate the winners, whose achievements will now take them to the next stage: the 2026 National Awards of Excellence at TTHG Expo on the Gold Coast in February 2027. For the winners, the recognition is an opportunity to celebrate the hard work behind their success and showcase what their businesses can achieve on a national stage. The NSW/ACT winners Garden Centre of the Year: Gubbins Mitre 10 Moss Vale Trade Centre of the Year: Petries Mitre 10 Trade Centre Dubbo Excellence in Customer Service: Andrew Chapman, Gubbins Mitre 10 Mittagong Home Hardware Store of the Year: Dipper’s Home Timber & Hardware Moree \ Mitre 10 Store of the Year – Small Format: Sunlite Mitre 10 Paddington Mitre 10 Store of the Year – Medium Format: Bungendore Mitre 10 Mitre 10 Store of the Year – Large Format: Johnson Bros Mitre 10 Mona Vale Village of the Year: Western Planers   The national awards will bring together leading performers from across the TTHG network, giving the NSW/ACT winners the chance to compete for national recognition. NTHA congratulates all eight winners on their achievements and wishes them every success as they prepare to represent NSW and the ACT at the national awards in February. Their success is a reminder of the people and businesses at the heart of the timber and hardware industry and the commitment it takes to stand out.

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The Precision Silviculture Program continues to support a number of final-year engineering student projects at The University of Canterbury, helping turn innovative ideas into practical solutions for the forestry sector. One of the most promising initiatives is the Bareroot Lifter Project, which has been under development for the last few years. Source: Timberbiz The project aims to create a commercially viable machine capable of rapidly lifting bareroot seedlings in the nursery, reducing labour demands while improving efficiency. Once lifted, seedlings can be transported for grading and processing, with future versions potentially combining lifting and automated grading into a single integrated system. Interest in the technology extends beyond New Zealand. Bareroot nursery operators in North America face similar challenges and have expressed strong interest in mechanised lifting solutions, highlighting the potential for wider industry adoption as the technology matures. More information at https://fgr.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/2026-Seedling-Lifter-Poster-FINAL.pdf

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Farmer and long-time tree grower Roger Poltock from northwest Tasmania has demonstrated how integrating trees into a farming enterprise can deliver environmental benefits, improve livestock welfare and generate strong financial returns. Source: Private Forests Tasmania Mr Poltock, a former Australian Forest Growers (AFG) National Tree Farmer of the Year has spent more than four decades integrating a productive agroforestry system across his farm. Today, the approximately 95-hectare property supports a beef operation and approximately 26 hectares of forests, plantations, shelterbelts and environmental plantings. For Mr Poltock, the decision to plant trees was driven by a motivation to make better use of the land while protecting his livestock from Tasmania’s harsh weather. Roger said he knows what it is like standing out in the cold in winter, so giving the cattle the protection of trees just makes sense. “One cold wet windy spring morning in the late 80s, in the early stages of lambing, I had more dead than live lambs on the ground. At that point I resolved to start planting trees for shelter,” he said. Inspired by farm forestry field days and supported by a loan through Private Forests Tasmania, he established a 10-hectare Pinus radiata plantation in 1987. The plantation was eventually harvested, generating net returns of around $20,000 per hectare while continuing to deliver shelter benefits throughout their growing life. These experiences have shaped Mr Poltock’s development of the property, with more trees strategically established on steep and inaccessible areas, alongside waterways and around dams, while more productive land remains in grazing. Mr Poltock’s result from plantings is a farm that finishes 100 to 120 beef cattle each year while supporting high-value timber production. One of the most exciting outcomes from his farm forestry program has come from a modest 0.7-hectare planting of Leyland Cypress. Leyland Cypress (Cupressocyparis leylandii) is a fast-growing hybrid between Monterey Cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) and Alaska Cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis), combining the durability and attractive timber qualities of both parent species. Originally developed in the United Kingdom, it has become popular with farm foresters because of its rapid growth, tolerance of wind exposure and ability to produce high-value appearance-grade timber. The timber is lighter in colour than Macrocarpa and has an attractive grain, making it suitable for furniture, joinery, cabinetry, interior lining and specialty timber products. It also has natural durability, giving landowners an alternative to more traditional plantation species while targeting higher-value niche markets. Mr Poltock said that the species ticked all the boxes. Planted by Mr Poltock and his family in 1992, the stand was established beneath a nurse crop of Eucalyptus nitens and carefully managed for over three decades. The trees were pruned to six metres across three pruning cycles, producing high-quality clearwood sawlogs suitable for appearance-grade timber products. Earlier this year, a test harvest of a single pruned tree delivered outstanding results. The tree measured 50 centimetres diameter at breast height when harvested and was processed by Britton Brothers Veneers in Somerset and the Somerset Men’s Shed. Feedback from timber processors was positive, with estimates suggesting the timber could be worth up to $4,000 per cubic metre. A relatively small planting requiring limited land has the capacity to generate substantial returns while continuing to provide stock shelter, aesthetic value and environmental benefits throughout its growing life. With around 100 additional Leyland Cypress trees now approaching harvest age, Mr Poltock is investigating selective harvesting and niche markets for the timber. The success of the trial reinforces the value of growing specialty species alongside traditional farm enterprises, creating future income streams from land that also provides shelter and environmental benefits. Mr Poltock credits this success to learning from other landholders and remaining open to new opportunities. “It was through going to field days and learning from other farmers that I got the idea of growing different trees,” he said. Mr Poltock’s willingness to learn and innovate has supported him to continually adapt his approach, identifying species and management techniques suited to his local conditions. Today, his forested land includes 20.2 hectares of radiata pine plantation, blackwood plantings, native riparian vegetation, shelterbelts and specialty timber species, all integrated within a productive grazing enterprise.

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Internationally recognised wood scientist Dr Adefemi Adebisi Alade has joined the Forestry Centre of Excellence at Adelaide University. Having previously held research positions at universities in Germany, the United States and South Africa, Dr Alade has built an international reputation for his work in developing high-performance, durable timber products and advanced wood-based composites. Source: Timberbiz A recipient of the prestigious 2022 International Academy of Wood Science PhD Award Gold Medal, Dr Alade has published extensively in leading international scientific journals and contributed to research collaborations spanning academia and industry. His expertise encompasses wood modification, preservation treatments, surface coatings, adhesion science and the development of engineered solid wood products and reconstituted wood composites. Dr Alade said he was looking forward to collaborating with the local industry to deliver on the Centre’s research objectives. “My research interests focus on improving the performance, durability and versatility of wood materials, and finding new ways to transform timber resources into high-value products that meet the changing demands of the building and construction sector,” Dr Alade said. “I am particularly looking forward to working with industry partners to explore opportunities in engineered timber, wood-based composites and implementing new manufacturing technologies. “By connecting wood science with advanced manufacturing and commercial applications, we can help develop innovative, climate-resilient building solutions while creating additional value from our timber resources.” FCoE Director Professor Jeff Morrell welcomed Dr Alade’s appointment, noting it reinforced the Centre’s commitment to attracting world-class research talent to regional South Australia and establishing the Green Triangle as a recognised centre for forestry and timber innovation. “Securing a researcher of Dr Alade’s international standing is an outstanding outcome for the Centre and a significant addition to the research capability we are building here in the Green Triangle,” Professor Morrell said. “His specialist knowledge in wood science, engineered timber products and advanced materials will be invaluable in helping us deliver on our strategic objectives, particularly in translating research into practical innovations that improve opportunities in product development, to support strengthening the industry value-chain.” To learn more about the FCoE visit https://www.forestrycoe.com.au

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A new training program aims to strengthen auditing capability across the forestry sector in Australia and New Zealand, helping forestry businesses build the expertise to navigate certification requirements, while expanding the pool of specialist auditors equipped to assess forest management practices against certification standards. Source: Timberbiz The JASANZ Futures x Responsible Wood program will help forestry businesses build internal auditing expertise. The program also provides experienced auditors from other sectors a pathway into forestry – or for auditors already in the sector, the opportunity to upskill. To encourage industry participation, Responsible Wood is sponsoring 15 places in the program. “Forest certification gives businesses a credible way to demonstrate responsible forest management and meet market expectations,” said Responsible Wood Acting CEO, Matt de Jongh. “By investing in auditing capability, our goal is to continue reinforcing the integrity of sustainable forest management practices, to equip businesses with additional skills to maintain their certification and to ensure forests are responsibly managed for generations to come.” The program combines Responsible Wood’s expertise in sustainable forest management certification with JASANZ’s expertise in accreditation and conformity assessment, delivered via online learning, mentoring and field trip opportunities, and is recognised by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) as initial training for forest management auditors. JASANZ CEO Sarah Valentine said the partnership was an investment in market confidence.  “Accredited certification is part of the infrastructure of trade. It gives businesses a way to show their products and practices meet the standards their markets expect. “Our partnership with Responsible Wood is a long-term commitment to forestry and the trade it supports,” Ms Valentine said. A reflection of growing adoption of PEFC certification in New Zealand, the program offers an exciting opportunity to build capability for the trans-Tasman forestry sector. “The program builds on existing capability in the region, complementing sustainable forestry practices with on the ground support from JASANZ technical assessors alongside PEFC New Zealand,” said PEFC International’s South Pacific Programme Manager, Richard Laity. “While the program was designed for Australian and New Zealand audiences, it remains open to forestry and conformity assessment professionals from other regions.” The program runs from April to July 2027. Sessions will be delivered by specialists from Responsible Wood, JASANZ and the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) – potential applicants are encouraged to explore the program for more detailed information at https://www.jasanz.org/futures-responsible-wood

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