An additional 12,000 tonnes of structural pine will be made available over the next three months for the Western Australian timber manufacturing industry and the State’s building and construction sector. Source: Timberbiz
The WA State Government’s WA Recovery Plan has supported an unprecedented boom in WA’s building and construction sector. At the same time, a global shortage of structural timber has limited the importation of pine into WA.
In the past, the WA softwood processing industry supplied approximately 65 per cent of pine products to the State’s housing and construction market. The remaining demand has been met by timber imported from the Eastern States or overseas.
The State Government, through the Forest Products Commission (FPC), has arranged for the supply of an additional 12,000 tonnes of WA grown softwood logs to be brought forward from future supply commitments to help meet the current increase in demand for timber in local construction.
In the coming weeks, the FPC will begin deliveries of additional timber to Wespine Industries, with Wespine commencing distribution to the marketplace after processing.
Building and construction industry body Master Builders WA has recently highlighted a shortage of softwood needed to complete current building projects and has been working closely with the McGowan Government and Wespine to increase timber supply.
The FPC will be supplying the softwood logs from its south-western radiata pine plantations to Wespine over the next three months.
To ensure fair distribution, the timber will be used to fulfil backorders for Wespine’s WA customers and will be made available on their current price list.
