Timber Trends to Watch in 2022

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With the world’s population growing apace, the need for new building materials that are cost effective, safe, widely available and carbon neutral is growing. Engineered timber is an exciting new development that allows skyscrapers to be built primarily from wood.

A Wood Building Renaissance in the German Capital

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With the world’s population growing apace, the need for new building materials that are cost effective, safe, widely available and carbon neutral is growing. Engineered timber is an exciting new development that allows skyscrapers to be built primarily from wood.

Timber shortage threatens to send builders to the wall

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Timber shortage threatens to send builders to the wall In part two of InDaily’s special report on the national timber shortage, South Australian builders warn of looming job losses due to the lack of supply for the housing industry. From an article originally published by InDaily. At a time when the industry should be booming on […]

Could timber build the skyscrapers of the future?

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With the world’s population growing apace, the need for new building materials that are cost effective, safe, widely available and carbon neutral is growing. Engineered timber is an exciting new development that allows skyscrapers to be built primarily from wood.

Timber has always been a great investment

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Timber’s versatility is unrivalled. In a world of plastics and polymers, wood has proven resilient to the massive transformations that took place last century and continues to serve us as well as it did our ancestors. As a material, its robustness, longevity, beauty, strength, and low environmental impact mean it will be as important tomorrow as it is to people today. 

Resilience in the age of COVID-19

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Timber’s versatility is unrivalled. In a world of plastics and polymers, wood has proven resilient to the massive transformations that took place last century and continues to serve us as well as it did our ancestors. As a material, its robustness, longevity, beauty, strength, and low environmental impact mean it will be as important tomorrow as it is to people today. 

Evergreen Forestry

Evergreen Forestry is a vertically integrated, sustainably focused forestry company managing seven plantations across the KZN Midlands. Evergreen Forestry grows its own trees for pulp and sawmilling, with an increasing focus on the sawmilling value chain.

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EVERGREEN FORESTRY IN NUMBERS

58

Permanent staff

4900ha

Hectares under management

200,000m³

Annual softwood production
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