by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
Frame and truss manufacturers and builders may be concerned about the quality of MGP graded pine produced from plantation areas affected by the recent fires. There are a number of lessons that have been learnt from other major pine salvage operations – the SA Mount...
by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
How fast does a saw need to be to be fast enough? How do we measure speed? Is it cubic metres per shift, number of components per hour, lineal metres per shift? It doesn’t really matter – whatever works best for you to assess the capacity and speed of a saw. For...
by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
Has there ever been a more decisive opportunity for unity amongst independent trade operators than now? Brett Martin, National Operations Manager for Independent Hardware Group (IHG) puts his perspective on how independent timber merchants can draw strength from one...
by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
The overtime provision in the Timber Industry Award 2010 provides that employees are entitled to overtime if they work outside the award’s span of hours (being 6:30am to 6:00pm) or if the employee works in excess of their ordinary daily number of hours. Overtime is...
by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
The ongoing bushfire season has offered heartache, devastation and challenges for many regional communities across New South Wales, SA, QLD and Victoria. Through this, our renewable Timber Industry is working hard to better understand the short, medium and long term...
by FTMA News | Jan 23, 2020 | Industry News
Once the current tragic and devasting bushfires occurring in Australia are brought under control, the focus will turn to reconstruction. Questions will be asked as to what products can be used and, in particular, whether timber products can be used… Yes, timber...
