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Hyne Timber Celebrates World Environment Day
The guys at Hyne celebrated World Environment Day with the launch of their environmental calculator to help you work out the positive impact of using timber on your projects. It’s a great tool to...
Ruling on Workers Compensation at a Work Event
When I hear employers and Members talk of their experiences with the workers compensation system, I normally see the abject pain and helplessness displayed on their normally pleasant facial...
FTMA Supporting and Listening to our Sponsors
FTMA Australia is as committed to their sponsors as they are their members and over the years, we have continued to upgrade the sponsorship packages, without increasing the costs; a bit like our...
Promote Your Business with Timber Framing. The Ultimate Renewable™
Now have the opportunity to join a new campaign designed to promote the environmental advantages of wood. The Ultimate Renewable™, with a range of variants to suit different industry sectors, has...
Six Steps To Manage Your Super: Step 4. Check Your Insurance in Super
Here’s the latest in a series of articles from industry super fund, First Super, with tips to help you make the most of your super. This time the focus is on better understanding insurance inside...
Noise & Hearing Loss in the Workplace
It is not an overstatement to say that one of the most critical issues facing every business owner in our industry is the exposure of their employees to hazardous noise at the workplace. Too much...
FTMA Tech Talk – Ed.12
IMPROVE YOUR DETAILING ACCURACY With radical advances being made in the development of modern day, whole house, CAD based detailing software, builders are desiring more work to be done off site, and...
Rant Warranted – Stop the Leap Frogging!
It is important that FTMA Australia listens to their fabricators and when you begin to hear the same message from a number of fabricators you know the issue is becoming serious. One of these issues...
Meyer Timber PROdock Precision Docked Studs – FAST
Meyer Timber continue to invest into MT2 Treatment and DTL automation for the east coast Frame and Truss market. At this year’s FTMA Conference Meyer Timber unveiled their new PROdock Brand and...
FTMA Framed Faces – Warwick & Helen Drysdale
Usually Framed Faces focuses on one person, however, today we celebrate a couple who have not only built a business together, but have done so successfully and happily working together whilst...
Have You Talked About Tomorrow Yet?
Firstly, I would love to take the opportunity to thank Kersten for the opportunity to present at the recent FTMA conference. I would also like to thank all of you who attended my presentation. As a...
Combilift Turns 21 & Celebrates at Ligna
Unbelievable that it was only a year ago that Combilift celebrated the opening of our new $80 million AUD manufacturing facility and welcomed so many Australian companies to Ireland for the opening....
How Commercial Solar Can Benefit Your Business
With some of the highest energy rates in the world, it is unsurprising that many Australian businesses are buckling under pressure. Rising energy costs and a complete lack of direction from...
Construction & Wood Products in Focus
The 2019 ‘Timber Offsite Construction’ conference and exhibition will focus on the latest developments for design and building of timber and mass wood systems, with over 70 local and global experts...
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