Timber
From oil palm to sustainable timber
MALAYSIA’S palm oil industry is often associated with deforestation, but one plantation owner in Sarawak hopes to be a force for sustainability by cultivating timber instead.
Sustainability - the name of the game
Berjayapak is an advocate for better business practices that cause little to no harm to the environment
Australia tech titans to build world's tallest 'hybrid timber' tower in Sydney
[SYDNEY] Global software giant Atlassian will build the world's tallest "hybrid timber" building for its new headquarters in Sydney, the company said Thursday.
More are warming to high-rise timber buildings
"It's incredibly beautiful," says one developer of the new engineered timber being used in place of steel today
Knock on wood for success
Innovating in tandem with today's changing market conditions is necessary for small and medium enterprises to stand out. The Business Times looks at what three Singapore SMEs are doing to shake things...
Borneo loggers swop chainsaws for cheap healthcare
THE forest around Manjau in Borneo once reverberated with the scream of chainsaws, as gangs of illegal loggers felled ancient hardwood trees for sale to timber merchants downstream.
Soaring Chinese demand for rosewood spurs largely illicit trade in West Africa
NO one paid much attention to the gnarled, yellow-blossomed rosewood trees dotted around farmsteads in northern Ivory Coast until Chinese-backed buyers started offering money for the timber.
Housing boom spurs Canada lumber surge as US mulls import duty
[WINNIPEG] With Americans buying more new homes than at any time since the recession, the cost of the wood used to build them is getting a lot more expensive.
