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Timber Queensland, in partnership with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, will bring together industry, government, and regional stakeholders in Roma on 20 November for a 9 am to 1 pm forum aimed at driving innovation and investment across the region’s cypress and hardwood sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titled ‘From Forest to Framework: Unlocking Timber Value in the Darling Downs and South-West Queensland<\/a><\/em>,’ the event has been convened to address the need for greater product development, market diversification, and collaboration across sawmilling, harvesting, and processing operations. The forum will examine opportunities emerging from the Queensland Government’s new Future Timber Plan<\/a> and explore how the region’s timber supply can better meet growing demand in construction, the bioeconomy, and infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here to register for the forum<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

According to Mick Stephens, CEO of Timber Queensland, the cypress and hardwood industries remain vital employers in small regional towns, supplying essential products used in decking, flooring, cladding, joists, structural beams, and joinery. \u201cThese sectors are often the lifeblood of jobs in regional communities, producing the materials that help put roofs over the heads of people across the state,\u201d Stephens said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In August, Mick Stephens helped launch the Prosper 2050 blueprint for Primary Industries at the Ekka RNA showgrounds. (Photo Credit: Supplied)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Industry leaders, researchers, and government representatives will address sustainable timber supply, new product innovation, biofuels and feedstock opportunities, and the implications of major infrastructure projects for timber logistics in southern and western Queensland. The program is designed for sawmillers, forestry contractors, private forest owners, graziers, and mixed-use landholders who are exploring timber as a secondary income source. It also targets builders, developers, architects, and engineers seeking to increase the use of sustainably sourced timber in construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Timber supplies most of a home\u2019s structural materials (about 50% of all materials by volume) \u2014 with the plan revealing that 70% of new Queensland homes are detached. (Photo Credit: QFTP shared under Creative Commons 4.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The forum will also be relevant to local and state government officers, planners, and regional development agencies engaged in forestry, infrastructure, and land-use planning who need to understand the sector’s emerging innovation agenda. Organisers say the full-value-chain approach \u2014 bringing growers, processors, product specifiers, and policymakers together \u2014 is intended to accelerate practical outcomes rather than produce abstract recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Timber Queensland, in partnership with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, will bring together industry, government, and regional stakeholders in Roma on 20 November for a 9 am to 1 pm forum aimed at driving innovation and investment across the region’s cypress and hardwood sectors. Titled ‘From Forest to Framework: Unlocking Timber Value in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"default","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"default","_google_business_share_type":"default","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[50,87,41,46,42,54,43,40],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[69],"class_list":{"0":"post-29887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"category-events-and-webinar","9":"category-exterior-wood-products","10":"category-industry","11":"category-interior-wood-products","12":"category-queensland","13":"category-structural-wood-products","14":"category-wood-products"},"authors":[{"term_id":69,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"woodcentral","display_name":"Wood Central","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MASTER-BRAND-MARK_POS_RGB-e1676449549955.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MASTER-BRAND-MARK_POS_RGB-e1676449549955.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29890,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887\/revisions\/29890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29887"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=29887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}