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ADVANCING WOOD TECHNOLOGY

FIEA is 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 Zealnd and Australian companies. Technologies best suited to the size of the industry and to the local 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 targeted 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.

MobileTECH Summit 2013

FIEA are pleased to announce a brand new event, MobileTECH Summit 2013 – the future of primary industries.

MobileTECH Summit 2013 is not just another high technology gadget show. This new event is designed to showcase current and upcoming mobile innovations best suited to New Zealand’s principal food and fibre sectors. The very best ideas and future applications of innovative tools – new and emerging technologies that can be adopted now, whether it’s on the farm, in the greenhouse or out in the forest, will be profiled at this year’s summit.

The objective of MobileTECH Summit 2013 is to provide new tools, ideas, case studies and contacts for mobile communications to grow future productivity and profits. MobileTECH Summit 2013 will bring together leaders of this country’s primary industries with the experts and visionaries of the mobile technology world.

Packed with presentations, demonstrations and panel discussions, this event will leave you inspired and excited about where mobile technologies are being used, how they can be integrated within your own business and what the opportunities are open to you in the near future.

We are currently developing the programme and will release further details closer to the event.

Full details can be found on www.mobiletechevents.com.

WoodEXPO 2013 - the major wood products event this year

Planning for WoodEXPO 2013 is now well underway. North America and Europe have a number of well-established and attended trade shows where the very latest in wood products technologies are being showcased to industry. To date, outside of the very popular technology events being run by the Forest Industry Engineering Association(SawTech, ScanTECH, Wood Manufacturing, DryTech, Mill Maintenance...), there has been no dedicated wood products show for either New Zealand or Australia.

FIEA has a very successful track record in designing and running independent technology events in both countries. It is already strongly supported by industry, by researchers and international product and service suppliers to the industry. "Major technology providers and wood producers have been pushing us in this direction for several years", says Brent Apthorp. "It makes good sense to amalgamate some of our well attended two-yearly technology programmes into one larger show for this part of the world".

As the name suggests,WoodEXPO 2013 will cover all things wood; from log yard handling, sawing technologies, saw-doctoring, wood scanning, wood gluing and laminating, timber machining, lumber QC, mill maintenance, kiln drying, finger-jointing, wood finishing, composite panels and engineered wood products.

Full details can be found on www.woodexpo2013.com.

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.

2013 FIEA Scholarship Awarded

This years Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) $2,500 FIEA Scholarship has been awarded to Ben Slui, a third year Bachelor of Forestry Science student, studying at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch.

The Scholarship is the second awarded to students as part of a five year scholarship programme set up in 2012.ﾠIt also builds on recent contributions of over $50,000 made by FIEA through its Educational Fund to upgrade saw sharpening and levelling equipment at the Waiariki Institute of Technology in Rotorua.

"In addition to having excellent grades so far, Ben has had practical experience working in a sawmill in Napier and more recently, in the forestry and logistics areas with Pan Pac Forest Products undertaking a diverse range of work and projects including forest inventory, log quality control, wood harvesting and LiDAR applications for predicting forest standing volumes says FIEA Director, Brent Apthorp.ﾠ

"Were delighted to award Ben (photo attached) this years FIEA Scholarship to support his studies says Brent Apthorp. The students applying this year for the FIEA Scholarship were outstanding, both academically and in their work experience.ﾠLike last years Scholarship applications, the New Zealand industrys certainly well placed with the calibre of students currently studying at the School of Forestry.

FIEA Members accessing new resources

Through the Technology Showcase section of this site, FIEA Members can now download over 500 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.