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Tasmanian Plantation Companies

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Forest Enterprises Australia (FEA)

FEA currently manage land in Tasmania, New South Wales and southern Queensland. FEA owns a sawmilling and residue processing plant at Bell Bay, and is a joint venture partner in the TasFibre processing facility, also at Bell Bay.

In January 2007, FEA has secured a long-term supply of softwood resources. As a result, FEA will invest in expansion of its Bell Bay operations, resulting in an increase in jobs in the George Town area.

Gunns Limited

Gunns Limited is Australia's largest hardwood producer, operating five sawmills throughout the State. Gunns also operates two veneer factories and four woodchip export ports in Tasmania, as well as managing a number of plantations.

Taswood

Taswood is a joint venture between Forestry Tasmania and GMO Renewable Resources (GMO) which own 42,000 hectares of radiata pine forest. Rayonier Tasmania was appointed the manager for Taswood Growers. Taswood’s pine forest estate provides around 800,000 tonnes of wood products annually with Tasmanian mills processing around 80% of this resource.

Auspine Limited

Auspine Limited, Australia’s largest non-government producer of radiata pine, runs a sawmilling and preservative treatment plant in Scottsdale as well as harvesting radiata pine and woodchipping for export.

Norske Skog

Norske Skog is a world leading producer of newsprint and magazine paper. At the Boyer Paper Mill, near New Norfolk on the Derwent River, the principal focus is making newsprint. The Boyer mill uses plantation radiata pine, regrowth eucalypt and recycled fibre to make around 290,000 tonnes of newsprint and related grades annually. This represents about 40% of Australian consumption. Other products, such as sawlogs, export chip and veneer are also produced from the plantation and native forest estate managed by Norske Skog.

Forestry Tasmania

Forestry Tasmania (FT) is a Government Business Enterprise established under the Forestry Act 1920. FT manages 1.5 million hectares of State forest and is committed to delivering sustainable forest management.

Forestry Tasmania also has a partnership to manage softwood plantation jointed ventures with American companies.

Forestry Tasmania produces about 3 million tonnes of wood per year, consisting of sliced veneer logs, peeled veneer logs, sawlogs, pulplogs, woodchips, fuelwood and other forest products. Forestry Tasmania produces both hardwood and softwood logs.

Rayonier

Rayonier has a management and marketing arrangement on a 113,000 acre forest owned jointly by the government of Tasmania and a U. S. financial institution. The company has an agreement to supply softwood logs to FEA for the long-term future.