Despite all the upsets that 2023 brought to bear in Victoria ASH has brought to light some of the upticks. Australian Sustainable Hardwoods (ASH) is an advanced manufacturer and operates one of the largest hardwood mills in Australia. Source: Timberbiz
In 2023 the company produced more than 1.5 million products sold across three species – GoodWood, Plantation Oak, Glacial Oak with:
- 36% increase in sales of Glacial Oak
- 402,397 staircase components sold
- 3350 customers served through the Retail Centre
- 14,493,388kg of CO2 equivalent stored in long term timber products.
The MASSLAM area with 6050 MASSLAM members designed, pressed and CNCed 15 major commercial projects featuring MASSLAM and achieved EWPAA certification for MASSLAM SL35 and MASSLAM 45 – the only mass timber glulam in Australia to hold this certification.
The company also added a total of 4,688m2 of additional roof area for both manufacturing and storage spaces and developed 14,000m2 of new hardstand area in the airdry yard.
A major achievement though was launching its mass timber flooring solution – Advanced Timber Composite Floors.
ASH used extensive research and development to prepare ATC for market including acoustic performance, char tests, service penetrations, FRL and long-term serviceability.
To make all these things possible the company also onboarded 30 new employees resulting in a 17% increase to the workforce.
For 2024 the company will be launching Australia’s only 100% Australian-made, pre-finished engineered flooring, commissioning a new lean-manufacturing staircase component line and launching architectural joinery products in its new Plantation Oak range. And most importantly it will be installing its third mass timber CNC to significantly expand MASSLAM’s manufacturing capacity.
