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The Hardwood Timber Manufacturing Hub

The Hardwood Timber Manufacturing Hub would be the commercial site for production of engineered wood products, such as GLT and LVL, likely sold to both domestic and international markets.

The site would have the capability to host other value-add activities, including biomass energy generation.

A percentage of the existing Green Triangle hardwood resource, which is currently exported to Asian markets in totality, would be dedicated to this project.

There are currently a total of 10 plantation companies in the region, in addition to various private and on-farm resources.

Local benefits.

The Hardwood Manufacturing Hub will lead the way to increase the value capture from engineered hardwood products benefitting the local region by:

  • Delivering new manufacturing capability and domestic value-add
  • Increasing employment
  • Strengthening the plantation sector supply chain
  • Servicing local construction market demand and reducing reliance on imports
  • Generation of more high value timber products will fill the gap made by the loss of productive plantations, including native resource
  • Improved infrastructure that can have a multiplying impact to attract other industries that may need similar expertise in systems, robotics and supporting infrastructure.

The Green Triangle – a unified approach to growing the wood fibre sector

The Green Triangle is the nucleus of Australia’s plantation sector.  Encompassing the entire value chain, from seedling to final fibre production, it is globally recognised as a premier location for growing and processing wood fibre, particularly softwood and hardwood.

The Green Triangle spans the borders between Victoria and South Australia, growing more than 320,000 hectares of softwood (pinus radiata) and hardwood (eucalyptus globulus) plantations – 17 per cent of Australia’s forestry plantation estate.

With more than 150 years of plantation and sawmilling experience, it has a diverse range of companies from world leading corporations to smaller family-owned operations.

The sector has a long-standing history of collaboration, identifying opportunities to optimise the resource, create more local capacity to futureproof the industry, strengthening its economic, social and environmental outcomes.

The region has some of Australia’s best climate, topography and accessibility for growing wood fibre, generating more than $1.6 billion in economic output annually supporting a workforce of more than 7000 people.