Has anybody researched the membership/ownership/officers of the NAFI? MIght
make interesting reading.
Les.
Trudy Bray wrote:
> Are they being leaned on by NAFI? --- Trudy
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>
> State firm joins timber book row
> By SEAN STEVENSON
>
> 17apr99
>
> A TASMANIAN company has become embroiled in the row between
> the National Association of Forest Industries and the publisher of a
> book promoting environmentally friendly home building materials.
>
> French Enterprises, which is based at Scottsdale, is angry over
> what it says is the unauthorised use of its name in the
> acknowledgments page of Forest Friendly Building Timbers.
>
> Managing director Kevin French said yesterday he was disgusted
> that his company had been nominated as a provider of information
> without permission.
>
> Information about a French Enterprises product was supplied to
> the book's authors by industry governing body Pine Australia.
>
> Pine Australia and French Enterprises were both acknowledged in
> the book.
>
> Mr French said his firm had not sought legal advice but was looking
> at the implications.
>
> "It is a booklet with a lot of misleading information," he said. "I
> don't want to be a party to misleading information."
>
> The book's publisher and co-author Alan Gray, of Victorian
> company Earth Garden Books, said that last month French Pine not
> only knew about the book, they were actively seeking to use it to
> promote their products.
>
> Mr Gray said he had talks with a senior employee of French Pine
> about how the promotion of the book could be used to market the
> company's new environmentally friendly copper azole process for
> treating pine.
>
> Mr Gray said he would refer the matter to the Australian
> Competition and Consumers Commission.
>
> The ACCC is already investigating possible breaches of the Trade
> Practices Act by NAFI in its bid to have the book withdrawn from
> sale.
>
> Mr Gray has accused the association of using its lobbying muscle to
> force BBC Hardware - originally a strong supporter of the book -
> to remove stocks from its shelves.
>
> He is in Hobart for this weekend's Tasmanian Alternative Home
> Expo.
>
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