Victorian Forest Products Association

26/08/2026

🏡 VFPA Newsflash: Timber is Built to Last

Performance is measured over the life of a building. When properly designed, built and maintained, timber-framed buildings can achieve a service life of at least 50 years, continuing to perform for generations.

For frame and truss manufacturers, that long-term performance starts well before a frame arrives on site. Precision design, engineering and manufacturing all contribute to structural timber systems that are made to perform reliably throughout the life of a building.

Australia's frame and truss sector combines timber's proven performance with increasingly sophisticated manufacturing technology and expertise. It means the homes we're framing today aren't simply about meeting Australia's immediate housing needs – they're about creating quality, enduring homes that can serve Australian families and communities for generations.

This is Week 4 of 14 – Let's Put Timber Back in the Conversation, helping our industry share a consistent message about why timber remains such an important building material for Australia's future.

Together with WoodSolutions, we're equipping the built environment with simple, credible talking points about timber.

24/08/2026

🌲 2026 Victorian Election: A dedicated voice for wood fibre

Victoria’s wood fibre industry intersects with 17 different ministerial portfolios – spanning housing, manufacturing, regional development, environment, transport, skills and more.

That breadth reflects just how important our industry is to Victoria’s economy – and particularly to delivering the homes, regional jobs and manufacturing capability our state needs.

With responsibility spread across so many areas of government, VFPA is calling for all political parties to commit to a dedicated Minister for Plantation Industries and Wood Fibre to provide clear leadership and help coordinate forestry policy across government.

A strong industry with a big role to play in Victoria’s future deserves a clear voice at the Cabinet table🌲

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19/08/2026

Many thanks Tom McIntosh MP for visiting our plantations!

Timber plantations are a critically important regional industry, not only for the housing products needed to build our future homes, but they also sequester huge amounts of carbon, helping to decarbonise the built environment. Thanks for your support!

18/08/2026

17/08/2026

🌲 National Forestry Day 2026 🌲

Today marks National Forestry Day, an annual initiative to raise awareness of the important work, innovation and achievements of forest industries in Australia.

This year's theme is 'Grown For Australian Homes', a slogan that reflects the critical everyday products wood fibre produces.

Wood fibre supports our regional communities and is critical to meeting Australia's housing targets, with 80% of our homes built with sustainable Aussie timber.

Australia’s forest industries help fight climate change, provide tens of thousands of skilled jobs, and create renewable, everyday, and essential products including house frames, flooring, decking, furniture, pallets, packaging, paper and power poles.

This National Forestry Day, join us in celebrating our wonderful wood fibre industry.

Learn more about NFD here: https://loom.ly/v2yxtMk

17/08/2026

🌱 VFPA Newsflash: Let's Put Timber Back in the Conversation

Timber stores carbon 🪵♻️

Every timber building starts storing carbon long before construction begins. As trees grow, they absorb carbon from the atmosphere and store it within their wood fibre. When used in buildings, that carbon remains locked away for decades.

For Australia’s frame and truss manufacturing sector, this is an important part of the story. Every timber frame and truss manufactured for a new home represents renewable timber being put to work in our built environment, with the carbon stored within that timber remaining locked away throughout the life of the building.

As Australia works to deliver more housing, our industry has an important opportunity to talk about not only how many homes we build, but what we build them from. Frame and truss manufacturers sit at the heart of that conversation – transforming timber into the structural systems that support Australian homes while contributing to a lower-carbon built environment.

Together with WoodSolutions, we're helping industry start more informed conversations about timber.

16/08/2026

We’re counting down to 🌲 National Forestry Day 2026 🌲 on Tuesday (18 August).

Join us to celebrate this exciting, once-a-year opportunity to embrace and showcase our industry, which generates around $24 billion in economic value, and supports 180,000 direct and indirect jobs.

This year’s theme ‘Grown for Australian homes’ highlights the fundamental role of sustainably produced and fibre products in meeting Australia’s housing and construction needs.

- more than 14 billion tonnes – that’s how much carbon dioxide Australian forests store, and they remove 16 million tonnes of CO₂-e annually.

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Victorian Forest Products Association, Australian Forest Products Association NSW, South Australian Forest Products Association, Tasmanian Forest Products Association

13/08/2026

🌲 2026 Victorian Election: Victoria Needs a Minister for Plantation Industries and Wood Fibre

VFPA is calling on all sides of politics to commit to appointing a dedicated minister, with clear responsibility for plantations, manufacturing and timber innovation.

Victoria is home to more than 380,000 hectares of plantation forestry, supports thousands of regional jobs, and contributes $9 billion annually in sales and services to the economy.

Given the industry's important role in delivering more homes, growing local manufacturing and supporting regional communities, it makes sense to have a dedicated minister providing clear leadership across government.

A dedicated minister will help unlock more local jobs, more local manufacturing and more local homes!

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12/08/2026

Great to catch up with Wayne Farnham MP, Shadow Assistant Minister for Housing and Building, to discuss the current state of Victoria’s timber market, the outlook for housing and the important role timber construction must play in delivering the homes Victorians need.

With timber markets closely linked to housing activity, a strong pipeline of new homes is critical for our local growers and manufacturers.

Thanks Wayne for taking the time to meet with VFPA and discuss ways that we can unlock opportunities for Victoria’s timber and construction industries. 🌲🏠

11/08/2026

🌱 VFPA Activity Update: Industry Roundtable with Victorian Greens Leader Ellen Sandell

It was fantastic to host Victorian Greens Leader Ellen Sandell MP last Wednesday to discuss the future of Victorian wood fibre directly with VFPA members at our advisory council meeting.

Victoria's wood fibre industry plays a vital role in meeting Victoria's housing and climate goals.

Victoria's sustainable plantation estate helps decarbonise our built environment, provides high-value, low-carbon housing products and is driving innovation in low-carbon liquid fuels.

During the roundtable, industry shared it's three key election priorities. The group discussed the future direction of Victorian wood fibre growing and manufacturing, and industry's focus on sustainability, innovation and supporting local communities.

Thank you, Ellen, for taking the time to speak with industry about the importance of wood fibre for all Victorians.