One of Australia's largest timber-producing regions will explore using low-value wood fibre in engineered products to address the nation's growing structural timber deficit crisis.Australia's timber shortage is expected to worsen with demand for housing set to increase 50 per cent by 2050The new engineered wood products would be made from softwood and hardwood pulp
"Australia is not going to be able to build the new homes that it needs into the future if we don’t take urgent action now to ensure we have the softwood supply the country needs," Mr O’Connor said. The housing construction boom, along with a drop in timber imports, is driving a major shortage of structural timber.
"This project will determine whether it is feasible to manufacture an engineered wood product for use in building construction using this fibre." "Ultimately, we hope to deliver more timber to our markets, to our domestic processes; and to those consumers, builders, home owners and renovators who are so desperately after more timber."
"From my perspective that means an Aussie log is being converted into a high-value offering via a whole series of Aussie jobs along that value chain," Mr Pasin said.
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