by FTMA News | Dec 18, 2021 | COVID-19
This article was last update 19 December With the emergence of Omicron, it has seemed we have entered a whole new phase of the pandemic as we all learn to live with COVID. Unfortunately, living with COVID is a scary unknown in Australia as we, particularly those in...
by FTMA News | Dec 18, 2021 | Industry News
In 2014 Richard Branson stated “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough, so they don’t want to.” Let’s explore the first part of that statement. The second half I will leave to you and your business management. Training has always been...
by FTMA News | Nov 25, 2021 | Tech Talk
Coping with Timber Shortages The Australian timber industry is currently coping with a severe short supply of structural timber. While local producers are making every effort to bridge the supply chain, there is a major influx of natural sawn and other engineered...
by FTMA News | Nov 25, 2021 | FTMA Housing Update, Industry News
Timber prices will remain high in 2022 Here’s why Prepared by IndustryEdge, November 2021 For some time now, every public conversation about houses has included discussion of timber prices. The entire nation has an opinion about housing markets and by proxy,...
by FTMA News | Nov 25, 2021 | Industry News
There is a rising wave of optimism emerging across Australia with severely locked down states shaking off the enforced constraints and accelerating towards a new normal of thriving economic activity and restriction free travel across the country. And all this is...
