The Fraser Coast celebrated one of its premier events in their annual calendar; the Fraser Coast Business and Tourism Awards. For the last three years, Hyne Timber has sponsored this event as the platinum sponsor, watching it go from strength to strength. Hyne Timber was recognized at the awards winning both the Innovation, and Trade & Manufacturing categories for the third year in a row. Source: Timberbiz
The Innovation award recognises Hyne Timber’s development of Australia’s first Building Information Modelling (BIM) content for their engineered wood products.
BIM Modelling has been well received throughout the design and construction sector and picked up a national award recently for its ability to promote the use of sustainably grown and certified timber in construction.
The Trade and Manufacturing win recognised the investment and successful execution of significant upgrades at the Tuan Mill near Maryborough earlier in the year.
This was a large-scale project which required collaboration across the business and key stakeholders including suppliers and customers over a number of months. In summary, the mill introduced technology to increase the accuracy of log scanning data which improves the assessment of suitability of structural-grade timber, getting the best out of every log.
“The Fraser Coast Business and Tourism Awards are a great way for Hyne Timber to support the community, recognising and celebrating business growth and success including everything businesses collectively bring to the region,” Hyne Timber’s Strategic Relations Manager Katie Fowden said.
“The timber industry is very well networked with one another on a national level with its own established industry events, awards evenings and news mediums. Becoming more involved at a community level is something the whole timber industry is more focussed on.”
More than 20 local businesses won awards across a broad spectrum of categories.
James Hyne had the honour of presenting the John Craig-Gardiner Memorial Award. This award recognises the long-term achievements by an individual to the region’s business and tourism industry, especially contribution above and beyond expectations of normal employment.
This year, the award was presented to John Meyers who founded the Maryborough Military and Colonial Museum with his wife Else in 2005.
Hyne Timber has no involvement in the judging process of this award and the recipient is unknown to all except the judges until the point of announcement. However, the presentation was fitting given James Hyne and John Meyers were already well acquainted having both worked in the timber industry for many years.
Mr Meyers was one of the founding partners at Dale & Meyers Sawmill in Tiaro. The sawmill was initially a landscape supplier until they moved into the development of a timber power pole business which presented competition to Hyne Timber’s power pole business at that time.
