FWPA is a not-for-profit industry services company – sometimes referred to as a rural development company – 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.
Latest News
On behalf of its members and stakeholders, FWPA supports and manages a wide range of activities through five strategic programs. Here you’ll find the latest news, updates and links to online resources.
Recent
12.12.19 FWPA joins Aussie researchers representing local R&D on global stage Launch...
03.12.19 Sustainability leader re-elected to Forest and Wood Products Australia...
28.11.19 The Ultimate Renewable™ website launches today in latest addition to...
08.11.19 Forest and Wood Products Australia joins cross-industry collaboration for...
08.10.19 How Virtual Reality is being used to launch forestry into the future:...
Events Calendar
From stakeholder engagement to industry promotion, events are a vital and valuable communication channel. If you have an industry-related event that you would like listed here, please contact us.
Documents
Communicating and disseminating the results of research and development projects enables industry to make more informed decisions and adopt best practices.
Recent
06.04.20 A Meta-Analysis of Benefit-Cost-Assessments for Australian Forest and Wood...
03.04.20 Control and manage the moisture content of logs and biomass to maximise...
03.04.20 National desktop review of bushfire building regulations
02.04.20 Improving productivity of the private native forest resource in southern...
24.03.20 Database capture of individual significant-scale Australian forestry...
Webinars
R&DWorks webinars are invaluable opportunities to catch up with the latest research results and best practice processes. On this page you’ll find links to recorded presentations.
Recent
17.06.19 Webinar: Production Forest Methodologies for the Emissions Reduction Fund
31.05.18 Webinar: ABARES Draft Work Plan 2018-2022
25.09.17 Webinar: Reducing costs in the wood supply chain through controlling the...
06.09.17 Costs and benefits of forest biosecurity
03.07.17 Webinar: Remote sensing of land-use-specific actual evapotranspiration of...
Podcasts
FWPA has launched the inaugural series of its new podcast, WoodChat. Each episode in the six-part pilot series will include an in-depth conversation with experts on a different industry-related news story, discovery or innovation.
Recent
Ep 01 - Wood & Wellbeing in the Workplace
Ep 04 - Revolutionising seedling selection using DNA
Ep 02 - Predicting future growing conditions with the click of a mouse
Ep 03 - Research centre to put Australia at forefront of best practice
Ep 05 - Advocating the environmental benefits of timber in construction
Logos
The Ultimate Renewable™ is an industry campaign to promote the sustainability and environmental advantages of Australia's Forest and wood products sector.
Our 5 Company Programs
FWPA Newsletters
FWPA publishes the industry newsletters, R&DWorks and ForWood. In addition, we have the WoodSolutions newsletter addressing design and build specifiers – architects, building designers, engineers and others involved in specifying the choice of building materials, as well as the Wood.Naturally Better. ™ Partner Update. ForestLearning is FWPA’s quarterly newsletter that provides information on Australian forests and forest-based products to teachers and educators, school children and the public.
