by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
In 2017 FTMA Australia decided to go down the path of a full fabricator board and at the time, I was unsure if it was needed or if it would make any difference at all and there is no doubt I have been pleasantly surprised how well this worked out. Whether it is a...
by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
The idea of engineered wall studs is not new, I remember a time in the early 90’s when Finger Jointed Studs (an engineered product in their own right) were very popular in certain geographical parts of the market for a whole bunch of reasons. So today with the...
by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
Frame and truss manufacturers and builders may be concerned about the quality of MGP graded pine produced from plantation areas affected by the recent fires. There are a number of lessons that have been learnt from other major pine salvage operations – the SA Mount...
by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
How fast does a saw need to be to be fast enough? How do we measure speed? Is it cubic metres per shift, number of components per hour, lineal metres per shift? It doesn’t really matter – whatever works best for you to assess the capacity and speed of a saw. For...
by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
Has there ever been a more decisive opportunity for unity amongst independent trade operators than now? Brett Martin, National Operations Manager for Independent Hardware Group (IHG) puts his perspective on how independent timber merchants can draw strength from one...
by FTMA News | Feb 25, 2020 | Industry News
The overtime provision in the Timber Industry Award 2010 provides that employees are entitled to overtime if they work outside the award’s span of hours (being 6:30am to 6:00pm) or if the employee works in excess of their ordinary daily number of hours. Overtime is...
