This year AFPA is celebrating 10 years as the united voice of Australia’s forest products industry and is taking a look back, and forwards
RECENT RELEASES
NFF Regionalisation agenda shows potential for forest industries to deliver more jobs for rural Australia
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has commended the National Farmers Federation (NFF) on its Regionalisation Agenda paper, which highlights the potential for Australia’s $24 billion forest industries to play a key role in a boom for regional Australia....
Resumption of timber harvesting on NSW Coast urgently needed to save hundreds of jobs
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed reports that urgently needed hardwood timber harvesting on the South Coast will resume soon, as timber mills have been starved of log deliveries for more than a year and are at crisis point. AFPA CEO Mr...
False claims linking fires and forestry is at odds with scientific consensus
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has again rejected a recycled report falsely claiming a link between native forestry operations and increased bushfire intensity. This latest claim comes from a so-called expert review of 51 previously published...
Neville Smith Forest Products expansion a vote of confidence in forestry’s future
The Australian Forest Products Association congratulates Tasmanian hardwood sawmiller Neville Smith Forest Products (NSFP) on its announcement it is increasing production at its Huon Valley facility. NSFP yesterday confirmed it will soon be expanding its workforce at...
Incoming Chair of United Nations FAO forestry Committee says turbo-charging timber and forestry key to achieving ‘Carbon Neutral by 2050’
Incoming Chair of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) forestry advisory Committee, Ross Hampton, says the world’s renewable timber and forestry sectors must be turbo-charged if we are to have any chance of achieving the global goal of ‘Carbon Neutral by...