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The Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence and the South Australian Wine Industry Association are working on a national stewardship scheme for end-of-life vineyard posts in Australia. The partners aim to complete the scheme design by late 2027, according to the supplied Wood Central report published on 7 October 2026. The initiative addresses posts already stockpiled as well as those still standing in vineyards. The report cites 32.5 million posts stockpiled nationwide and says a further 85.6 million remain in vineyards.…
CMPC is investing US$92.6 million in two wood operations in Chile’s Biobío region, according to the supplied October 7, 2026 report. The projects cover a remanufacturing plant in Los Ángeles and the Mulchén sawmill. The report says most of the spending is allocated to further processing, while the Mulchén project will expand lumber capacity.…
Finnish forest and food-sector groups are urging the government to protect wood supply as Finland implements the EU Nature Restoration Regulation, according to the supplied Lesprom report. The groups estimate that proposed restoration measures could cost about €1.2 billion, with an annual funding gap of about €400 million. Under the most extensive scenario, they say the volume of wood affected could equal the annual use of one to two pulp mills and 15 industrial-scale sawmills.…
CMPC plans to invest more than US$90 million to modernize two wood operations in Chile’s Biobío Region. The investment forms part of a two-year capital plan exceeding US$1 billion, according to the supplied Lesprom report. The largest identified project is a US$72 million upgrade at the Los Ángeles remanufacturing plant, which converts sawn wood into products including panels and mouldings.…
Indonesia says it will halt a project to clear several million hectares of forest for rice production. The government launched the programme in 2024 as part of an effort to end reliance on rice imports within five years. The plan had called for clearing three million hectares for rice paddies. The government cited the country’s achievement of rice self-sufficiency as the reason for stopping the project.…
Australia recorded a net forest gain of 105,000 hectares a year in the decade to 2025, according to figures attributed to the Food and Agriculture Organization. The report says only four countries added forest faster over that period. Australia has 133.6 million hectares of forest, the world’s seventh-largest forest estate, according to the same account.…
York Timbers retrenched 73 workers at two operations, according to a report published by IOL on October 6, 2026. The supplied excerpt does not identify the operations or state when the retrenchments took place. It also does not provide a breakdown of affected roles or explain the reasons for the job cuts. The report names illegal mining and land invasions among the timber group’s top risks.…
Adeptus plans to establish its first South Carolina operation at a wood products plant in Anderson County, according to the supplied Lesprom excerpt. The reported investment is US$215.56 million, and the facility is expected to create 217 jobs.…
A Wood Central report summarizing a Food and Agriculture Organization forests report says planted forests established for restoration cost between US$272 and US$28,251 per hectare in the cited source. The report says plantations cost nearly six times as much per hectare as assisted natural regeneration. Among the dozen restoration methods compared, only irrigation-led projects and silvopasture were reported to cost more than plantations.…
The Government of the Northwest Territories says a large tree-planting project on public land near Sambaa Deh Falls has been completed. In July 2026, crews working with Jean Marie River First Nation and Windfirm Resources planted 1,504,030 plugs, according to the supplied report. The project produced a reported total of 3,365,613 native trees and shrubs across 403 hectares. It was undertaken to restore forest affected by wildfire.…
The U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities have announced the beta launch of the Forestry Analytics for Carbon Tracking platform. The free platform is intended to provide forest-sector carbon data in one accessible location. The organizations say it combines public and private datasets that have previously been fragmented or costly to aggregate.…
New Zealand’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) is providing NZ$3.7 million to five hubs intended to collect and prepare low-grade wood left in forests, according to a Wood Central report. The proposed hubs run from Southland to Waikato. The report says four proposed fuel plants could draw NZ$450 million in private investment, but does not say that this investment has been committed.…
