ANNUAL REPORT 09/10 - Forest and Wood Products Australia

Forest & Wood Products Australia Limited (FWPA)
is an industry services company providing a
national, integrated strategy to increase demand
for forest and wood products and reduce the
impediments to their supply. FWPA is committed
to helping the forest and wood products industry
to be collaborative, innovative, sustainable
and competitive.
VISION
To be the industry’s leading source of
knowledge, and the principal investor in
innovation and promotion.
MISSION
To provide services to the industry, and to increase
its sustainability and international competitiveness.
These services include direct and collaborative
investment in:
Research and development to provide innovative
solutions for the industry, and
Promotion of the industry’s products, services
and values.
COVER
dovetail
To combine or interlock into a unifi ed whole.
A joint technique most commonly used in woodworking joinery.
Formed by one or more tenons on one piece that interlock with
corresponding mortises in another. Noted for its resistance to
being pulled apart. Once glued, a wooden dovetail joint requires
no mechanical fasteners.
Some of the earliest known examples of the dovetail joint are
in furniture entombed with mummies dating from First Dynasty
of ancient Egypt, as well the tombs of Chinese emperors. The
dovetail design is an important method of distinguishing various
periods of furniture.
STRATEGIES
STRATEGY ONE:
INDUSTRY PROMOTION
Promote the benefi ts and usage of forests and wood
products, in accord with changing community attitudes,
environmental awareness, and market trends.
STRATEGY TWO:
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Invest in and coordinate R&D to improve the industry’s
competitiveness, inform of its climate change response,
enhance investment, increase usage, and ensure the
sustainability of forests, wood products and services.
STRATEGY THREE:
CAPACITY ADOPTION
AND PROMOTION
Expand the industry’s capacity and capability –
in knowledge generation and adoption, and
promotion – to facilitate growth.
STRATEGY FOUR:
PROVIDING INDUSTRY
SERVICES
Increase FWPA’s capacity and scope to provide
services for the industry’s benefi t.
Timber used
Left top-bottom:
Southern Sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum)
Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata)
American Oak (Quercus alba)
Merbau (Intsia bijuga)
Victorian Ash/Tasmanian Oak (Eucalyptus delegatensis)
Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon)
Right:
Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata)