and while some of its nitens become plywood, the vast majority are exported as pulpwood.
"But I think the biggest driver is that we want to extract the maximum value that we can from this product and we really want to support the Tasmanian economy and we just think that there’s something better that we might be able to do in addition to pulpwood."Operation manager of CUSP's Wynyard factory Michael Lee believes optimistic about cross-laminated timber.
CUSP has been working to perfect this process at their "pilot plant" over the past few years and operations manager Michael Lee is overwhelmingly enthusiastic about its potential."It's used for walls, it's a replacement for concrete and a whole heap of other building materials and it's just a sustainability friendly product," he said.
While wood supply did not appear to be an issue at this stage for a nascent CLT industry, the amount of land dedicated to plantations across Australia has been in steady decline for a decade. Oldina farmer Nick Newman has spent several years pulling up eucalyptus nitens stumps from an old plantation.
You really need to appreciate our TREES as the 'LUNGS OF THE EARTH' and a major part of the Environment instead of just a commodity.
maybe the land clearing a human activity causing the climate to change, maybe the trees can change seasons after all and not the seasons change trees, some weird indirect way or some direct way, two way relation, long term or short term
Because Aust is lazy
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