• FWPA
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How automation could help workforce challenges, improve safety and strengthen long-term productivity

Australia’s forestry sector is facing a familiar challenge: how to grow more wood, maintain high safety standards, manage rising operational complexity and respond to workforce shortages, all while meeting increasing community and environmental expectations…

FFI - Ian Tyson & Kylan Low
  • FWPA
  • Podcast

  The Future Framing Initiative (FFI) is an industry-led collaborativ…

Mechanised Tree Plan Report
  • FWPA
  • Report

Mechanised tree planting shows promise for safer, smarter forest establish…

Global Tech Research Report
  • FWPA
  • Report

Australia’s forestry sector is facing a familiar challenge: how to gr…

Pene Mitchell
  • FWPA
  • Podcast

  In this episode of WoodChat’s Women in Forestry series, Dr Penelope &#…

Transforming the forest & Wood products Industry

FWPA is a not-for-profit industry services company – sometimes referred to as an RDC (Rural Research and Development Corporation) – funded by the Federal Government, member levies and research grants. 

We collaborate with government and industry stakeholders to determine strategy, invest in effective and relevant R&D and deliver programs designed to grow the market for forest and wood products, increase productivity and profitability across the value chain and ensure positive environmental and social outcomes.

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WS campaign
  • WoodSolutions
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Good information is one of the industry’s most valuable resources. Wh…

Dwelling construction
  • News

As part of FWPA’s data analysis and our ongoing campaign to highlight t…

Imported wood products (2)
  • FWPA
  • News

Australia’s latest housing data is sending two seemingly conflicti…

Imported wood products (1)
  • FWPA
  • News

Packaging timber rarely makes headlines, but as the material used predomina…

  • WoodSolutions
  • News

Helping Industry Share the Timber Story

Good information is one of the industry’s most valuable resources. Whether it’s helping a builder answer a customer’s question, supporting a merchant with technical information or giving fabricators practical tools to engage their networks, clear…

FWPA RD&E Investments

We invite applications for funding of RD&E that helps advance research to benefit the commercial forest growing sector in Australia, support growth of the market for forest and wood products or increasing productivity and profitability across the value chain.

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FWPA codes and standards

Standards

FWPA’s Codes & Standards program aims to increase the use of wood-based products through the development and/or maintenance of key standards, codes and handbooks that are developed through a consensus-based process.

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Industry Data

The Statistics and Economics Program at FWPA provides reliable industry data to support stakeholder decision making and business planning.

Our public data portal serves as a dynamic hub, granting direct access to an extensive repository of both international and domestic data, all of which is publicly available.