The timber workers’ union is calling for Government intervention following 44 redundancies at a central North Island plant.
National Distribution Union (NDU) general secretary Robert Reid said Forestry Minister David Carter must take action as companies are unable to profitably export [ More ] [ Read More ]
National Distribution Union general secretary Robert Reid.
Photo / Simon Baker
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.
"The [ More ] [ Read More ]
Thirty staff at Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Kawerau Sawmill are losing their jobs.
Their final day of work will be January 10 next year.
In a document leaked to Rotorua's Daily Post, Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Kawerau Sawmill site manager Paul Trow [ More ] [ Read More ]
Beginning in January, construction crews will descend upon Waiariki, working on the new Wood Manufacturing Centre of Excellence at the Waipa Campus
Darryl Church Architecture has designed the new Waipa Wood Manufacturing Building which will be built at the existing Waipa [ More ] [ Read More ]
By SAM MORTON – Clutha Leader page 5
MILTON is set to be home of an ‘internationally competitive’ producing sawmill, with confirmation a new mill is being built in the Milton and Milburn precincts.
Southern Cross Forestry Products Ltd managing direct or [ More ] [ Read More ]
