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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 Members can access new resources

Through the Technology Showcase section of this site, FIEA Members can now download over 230 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. 

New Industry Magazines for FIEA members

The Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) has just set up another unique arrangement with a leading international wood products trade magazine, International Forest Industries.  As part of its mandate to advance wood technology, the new arrangement ensures FIEA members as part of their membership benefits are 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 also now are sent free copies of Inwood Australasia, Mill Product News, NZ Logger and International Forest Industries magazines.

Wood Preservation 2009 programme online...

The April 2009 event for those companies involved in timber treatment is now available.  This was last run in 2006 and we had over 200 attending the Australasian series. 

Wood Innovations 2008 resources now available

Eight Papers from the Wood Innovations 2008 series have been updated onto the Technology Updates section of this site.  They include;

• Non-destructive Testing & Evaluation of Wood Properties, Paul Milliken and Roger Meder, Scion, Australia
• Advances in Pulp & Paper Manufacturing Technologies, Ralph Coghill, Appita, Australia
• A Successful Case Study of R&D, Commercialisation and Adoption of new Technology by a Wood Products Company, Vince Hurley, ITC Timber Heyfield, Australia
• NZ Wood Presentation 2008, Geoff Henley, Network PR, New Zealand
• Commercialised Wood Modification Technologies, Mark Smith, Smith Railey Consulting Ltd, New Zealand 
• Utilising & Integrating Wood Wastes for On-site Energy Production, Rob Mallinson, Living Energy Ltd, New Zealand
• Utilising & Integrating Wood Wastes for Energy Production, Colin Stucley, Enecon Pty Ltd, Australia
• Sawing Technologies, Lars Lindvall, Söderhamn Eriksson, Sweden