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ADVANCING WOOD TECHNOLOGY

FIEA - The Key to Improving Your Operating Efficiencies and International Competitiveness. The Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA), a division of Innovatek Ltd, is a unique grouping in Australasia. It's the principal vehicle for technology transfer for forestry and wood products companies. Through a range of independent programmes, new product and process technologies are introduced to New Zealand and Australian companies. Technologies best suited to the size of the industry and to the local wood resource are being identified and "showcased".

A regular series of conferences, practical workshops and managed exhibitions are run every year. Forestry and wood product companies, key product suppliers, researchers and technology providers from throughout the world are targetted and involved with the programmes. In addition to these events, new resources from the technology programmes are being supplied to New Zealand and Australian companies.

FIEA is also now the largest provider of weekly and monthly forest products news in Australasia.

FIEA adds Scholarship to sawshop upgrade

A new FIEA scholarship for forestry students has just been added to a major upgrade of saw-doctoring equipment at the Waiarki Institute of Technology this year.

For sawmilling companies, FIEA worked closely this year with the Waiariki Institute of Technology to support the upgrade of National Training Centre’s saw-doctoring facility at their Waipa Campus, Rotorua. FIEA was delighted to be able to directly assist the industry by contributing $50,000 through its FIEA Educational Fund to upgrade saw sharpening and levelling equipment in line with a new qualification in Saw Doctoring that has just been developed.

The Forest Industry Engineering Association has also just set up a new annual $2,500 FIEA Scholarship with the School of Forestry at the University of Canterbury and will be offered to five students over a five year period commencing early in 2012. The new Scholarship has been designed to encourage and support an outstanding student in their third year of study undertaking either a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Forest Engineering, or Bachelor of Forestry Science and who has a strong interest in Wood Science or Engineering. Details on the scholarship can be found on the NZ School of Forestry website.

FIEA Members accessing new resources

Through the Technology Showcase section of this site, FIEA Members can now download over 400 presentations and papers from recent technology events. These provide probably the most valuable on-line resource on new and emerging technologies for forest products companies. Only FIEA members have EXCLUSIVE ACCESS to this comprehensive resource.

FIEA members able to access comprehensive news coverage

FIEA is now the largest provider of weekly and monthly forest products news into Australasia. The Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) has set up unique arrangements with leading international forestry and wood products trade magazines. As part of its mandate to advance wood technology, this arrangement ensures FIEA members as part of their membership benefits are now getting supplied FOUR leading industry trade magazines.

To ensure forest products companies in Australasia are keeping up with the news and issues that will directly impact on their operation, FIEA members in addition to receiving weekly updates through Friday Offcuts and WoodWeek also now are sent free copies of NZ Logger, International Forest Industries, Australian Forests & Timber News and Australian Timberman magazines.