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Forestry Contractors At Breaking Point With An Unsustainable Model
Monday, 29 May 2023, 10:48 am | Forest Industry Contractors Association
New Zealand’s forestry contractors are at breaking point, with compounding pressures from the last three years mounting. Some are already in liquidation and many more are at risk of losing their livelihoods. Forest Industry Contractors Association ... More >>
Forestry Contractors Chipping In To Help With Cyclone Clean-up
Monday, 27 February 2023, 2:08 am | Forest Industry Contractors Association
New Zealand’s forestry contractors are mucking in to help clean up post Cyclone Gabrielle while unable to get back to work as normal. Some forestry contractors affected by Cyclone Gabrielle remain unable to get back to work, reliant on landowners to ... More >>
Fears For Forestry Contractor Livelihoods Following Cyclone Gabrielle
Monday, 20 February 2023, 1:42 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
New Zealand’s forestry contractors in the Tairawhiti, Hawkes Bay, Coromandel and Northland regions are facing immense pressure and compounding challenges post-cyclone Gabrielle. Planted forest in these combined regions makes up almost 30% of the national ... More >>
$40k Raised For Forestry Mental Health In Charity Auction Dinner Opened By New Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell
Friday, 25 November 2022, 9:33 am | Forest Industry Contractors Association
More than $40,000 has been raised to lead a mental health initiative for forestry at a charity auction dinner held in Rotorua on 18 November. Opened by newly appointed Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell, the charity auction was part of NZ’s first Fast & ... More >>
Forestry Expo A Success
Monday, 21 November 2022, 11:27 am | Forest Industry Contractors Association
New Zealand’s first forestry expo event, the Fast & Forward Forestry Expo, was held in Rotorua 18-19 November with an estimated 5000 visitors through the gates over the two-day event. Brought together by the Forest Industry Contractors Association ... More >>
First Ever Forestry Expo In Rotorua This Week (18-19 Nov)
Monday, 14 November 2022, 9:45 am | Forest Industry Contractors Association
New Zealand’s first ever forestry expo event, the Fast & Forward Forestry Expo, is coming to Rotorua this Friday and Saturday 18-19 November. All are invited to attend. Brought to you by the Forest Industry Contractors Association (FICA), ... More >>
New Campaign Launches To Attract More People Into Forestry Careers
Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 11:06 am | Forest Industry Contractors Association
A new recruitment campaign called ‘Find Your Fit In Forestry’ aims to draw attention to the varied career opportunities available in the growing forestry industry. A sector-wide initiative, the campaign has just launched and hopes to attract more ... More >>
Forestry Centre Stage At Good Employer Awards
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 5:38 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
Tāne Mahuta NZ Ltd have made the forestry industry proud, taking out the Māori Agribusiness Award at the 2022 Primary Industries Good Employer Awards last night. The Bay of Plenty based contractors were also finalists for the Supreme Award. Hosted ... More >>
NZ Forestry Contractors Reaching Breaking Point In Forestry Crisis
Monday, 9 March 2020, 3:42 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
New Zealand Forest Industry Contractors Association (FICA) says forestry crisis is dire and contractors are reaching breaking point in an ever-worsening situation. Rapid impacts have been felt over the past month by the forestry industry with the ... More >>
Budget ‘fail’ on local climate change solutions
Friday, 26 May 2017, 2:33 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
The Forest Industry Contractors Association (FICA) is concerned at what wasn't in yesterday’s Budget. The stagnant level of funding for growing local forests is not good enough for dealing with climate change challenges. We have a land base and ... More >>
Labour shortages limiting forest contracting industry
Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 11:52 am | Forest Industry Contractors Association
The leading professional group for loggers in New Zealand says their members are being challenged by the lack of young skilled people available to work in rural areas, but the solution is not likely to be importing the people with skills. Forest Industry ... More >>
Paradigm shift in forest safety is no surprise to some
Tuesday, 21 February 2017, 10:37 am | Forest Industry Contractors Association
The leading professional group for loggers in New Zealand says big improvements in forest safety are no surprise – they’ve been focused on change for 3 years. Forest Industry Contractors Association (FICA) president Ross Davis says new technology ... More >>
More useful information would improve regional wood forecast
Monday, 5 September 2016, 4:20 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
The Forest Industry Contractors Association is calling for industry and government to cooperate to provide wood supply information to improve short and medium term planning. More >>
Forestry contractors focused on new safety laws
Thursday, 2 June 2016, 11:02 am | Forest Industry Contractors Association
Leading forestry contractors are moving fast to ensure they understand and implement systems for meeting new health and safety laws brought in last month. Under the guidance of their industry association – the Forest Industry Contractors Association (FICA) ... More >>
Dramatic improvement in forest industry safety record
Wednesday, 3 February 2016, 4:40 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
Following a spate of workplace deaths in 2013, New Zealand’s forestry industry has set a shining example in improved safety performance nationally over the past three years. Annual serious harm incident rates dropped in half over the past two ... More >>
Worker participation key to future safety
Monday, 20 July 2015, 3:57 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
After months of industry consultation, the forest industry has a new safety body – the Forest Industry Safety Council (FISC). Most importantly, there has been practical input from experienced forest contractors from on the forest floor and workers with ... More >>
Forest contractor failure puts jobs at risk
Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 5:07 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
The receivership of one of the country’s largest forest contractors, Harvestpro, will send a shock wave through rural communities as their workers are made redundant. The fragile rural economy in Northland, of all places, did not need this business ... More >>
Forest contractors welcome WorkSafe submission
Thursday, 14 August 2014, 1:43 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
Today the government’s safety agency for forestry, WorkSafe NZ, has publicly released its submission to the panel of the Independent Forest Safety Review. The Forest Industry Contractors Association (FICA), the industry group that originally initiated the ... More >>
Northland Storm damage devastating for forest businesses
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 12:40 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
The devastating effects of storm damage in Northland continues to have a significant and lasting effect on forest contracting businesses, as infrastructure repairs have been delayed in the far North. More >>
West Coast log salvage - Politicians miss the point
Friday, 27 June 2014, 12:26 pm | Forest Industry Contractors Association
Hard working New Zealanders will once again be wondering what it is that politicians actually contribute to the economy after yesterday’s debate in Parliament. Both National and Labour members argued from entrenched positions. More >>
