As the media partner of WoodEX for Africa 2023, WoodBiz Africa wants to thank the organiser, visitors at our stand and our fellow exhibitors who made the event an outstanding success. Held in June over…
The Form Ghana story is a West African example of how an innovative public-private partnership (PPP) that extends to community agroforestry creates an FSC-certified sustainable win-win relationship. Find out how Form Ghana’s community-driven inter-cropping silviculture…
AFGRI Equipment Construction and Forestry is excited to announce the opening of its Tzaneen branch in Limpopo, South Africa. The new branch offers a full range of John Deere Equipment, including construction, forestry, agriculture, residential…
Congratulations to Tekwani’s Empuluzi Sawmill for participating in the Crickmay & Associates Intermill Comparison (IMC) and attaining the 2023 Sawmill Improvement Award. You can read more on this here – https://www.woodbizafrica.co.za/may-2023-issue-26/#may-2023-issue-26/22/
The global engineered wood market is expected to reach US$490,567 million by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.21% from 2022 to 2030. You can read more on this here – https://www.woodbizafrica.co.za/may-2023-issue-26/#may-2023-issue-26/10/
South Africa has deployed 400 firefighters and 28 managers to Canada to combat what officials believe to be the worst wildfires in Canadian history. The first group of 200 left on 3 June and the…
The York Timbers sponsored “Timber in Context” competition challenges designers to explore new structural and ecological possibilities of timber construction through innovation in contemporary and traditional wooden materials in designing a Biodiversity Skills Centre that…
What do an agronomist (Maswazi Mkhtshwa), an accountant (Jabulile Kunene), and a pharmacist (Kholiwe Shabangu) have in common? You’d probably say nothing; however, they are cousins and partners in Khojama Investments, an eSwatini contract harvesting…
Forestry South Africa (FSA) and representatives from the mining, agriculture, automotive and freight forwarders sectors met with President Ramaphosa and relevant ministers in April to discuss the dire state of South Africa’s ports and rail…
Nine aspiring, young, black entrepreneurs presented their businesses to a panel of three “dragons” from leading retailers, Mr Price Home, Homewood, and Sheet Street, at KwaZulu-Natal’s eThekwini Furniture Cluster (EFC) Business Accelerator’s second “Dragons’ Den”…
