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Forest Industries Development Fund

​The Australian Government committed $9 million to the Forest Industries Development Fund, a competitive grants program to boost the international competitiveness of Australia’s forest products.

The fund encouraged increased investment in measures designed to add value to our forest resources. Through this initiative the Australian Government is working with the states, territories and industry, to ensure the long-term economic viability of Australia’s forest industries.

The Forest Industries Development Fund is now complete.

Media Release

  • Making Australia's forest industr​ies more competitive - 10 November 2009

Funding rounds

There were two funding rounds and a total of 137 responses were received from forest industry companies over the two rounds of the program.

The first round opened on 12 January 2009 and closed on 6 February 2009, and the second round opened on 8 August 2009 and closed on 6 February 2010. The two rounds of funding resulted in 18 projects being funded making available $5.5 million to support:

  • New timber products – shift from low to high value products
  • Improvements in cost efficiencies across the value chain
  • New uses for wood
  • New wood processing/production initiatives that will achieve value adding outcomes.

The industry initiatives supported included an Australia-wide project for design and delivery of modular wood-based Indigenous housing for rapid deployment in remote areas, a new facility to process highland species timber into high value timber flooring products, a project to optimise processing efficiency from pine resources, and a project to automate a product grading process to improve recovery and add value to forest resources. An additional 8 projects that were offered funding were subsequently withdrawn by the proponents. 

Successful grants under the Forest Industries development Fund 

Recipient

Purpose

GST Inclusive

Signed date

Grant Funding Location

FIDF R1 01 Big River Group

Upgrade of the Ausply veneer and plywood factory at Wagga Wagga

$550,000.00

15/06/2009

Wagga Wagga NSW

FIDF R1 03 Australian Solar Timbers

Install a new timber treatment facility

$316,800.00

15/06/2009

Kempsey NSW

FIDF R1 13 AKD Softwoods

Optimisation of Lower Grade Radiata Pine

$550,000.00

22/06/2009

Colac VIC

FIDF R1 28 Colonial Timber Products

Install a component pre-fabrication wall frame manufacturing line

$125,381.25

12/11/2009

Brendale QLD

FIDF R1 37 Allied Timber Products

Redevelop the Stage 3 Bathurst softwood sawmill by installation of new plant

$504,900.00

22/06/2009

Bathurst NSW

FIDF R1 49 Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts

Develop affordable indigenous housing (panelised building system)

$146,702.60

8/09/2009

Chatswood NSW /Northern Territory

FIDF R2 01 Wespine

Install advanced automated grading technology for sawn structural softwood

$269,500.00

18/02/2010

Dardanup WA

FIDF R2 03 Ecofriendly Solutions

Install equipment to allow expansion of Biofuels utilisation by producing ekologs

$124,740.00

22/02/2010

Manjimup WA

FIDF R2 04 PACPine

Install a steam piston generator to reduce reliance on electricity

$33,000.00

22/02/2010

Burraga NSW

FIDF R2 08 Hurford Hardwood

Install equipment which added thermally modified plantation and highland species flooring as a product line

$181,500.00

25/02/2010

Tuncester NSW

FIDF R2 13 AKD Softwoods

Install log sorting by juvenile wood identification to achieve optimum product output

$525,294.00

22/02/2010

Colac VIC

FIDF R2 15 Australian Solar Timbers

Install a new End-Matching System for Strip-Flooring Line

$198,000.00

18/02/2010

Kempsey NSW

FIDF R2 16 Australian Solar Timbers

Install a new 3D Scanning System for Strip Flooring Line

$412,500.00

22/02/2010

Kempsey NSW

FIDF R2 19&20 Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia

Redevelop the Myrtleford Plywood Mill and provide staff training

$1,100,000.00

22/02/2010

Myrtleford VIC

FIDF R2 24 Itreat Timber

Installation of a Highly Specialised timber treatment plant

$495,000.00

18/02/2010

Narangba QLD

FIDF R2 26 Forrest Timber Products

Install a new Value Adding Timber Processing System

$550,000.00

18/02/2010

Birregurra VIC

FIDF R2 40 Keith Timber and Hardware

Install and purchase equipment to expand the truss plant facility

$20,435.25

22/03/2010

Keith SA

FIDF R2 49 Port Lincoln Aboriginal Community Council

Establish the Wanilla Forest Development Project to replant and provide ongoing management

$110,000.00

22/03/2010

Port Lincoln SA

Guidelines for applicants

  • Round one guidelines
  • Round two guidelines

Advisory Committee

The previous Australian Government Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry appointed a five-member Advisory Committee to assess the applications, and to provide advice on project eligibility, merit and competitiveness. The committee included three forest industry members, a representative of the state/territory governments, and an Australian Government member.

Contact us

The Forest Industries Development Fund grant program was administered by the Forestry Branch of the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, who can be contacted on 02 6272 5079.

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