Australia’s largest hardwood timber manufacturer is accelerating production, now importing thirty or more 40-foot containers of American hardwoods monthly to compensate for locked-up Victorian hardwoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Known as “Glacial Oak”, the new American Oak (Q. rubra) is ASH’s solution to the Victorian native forest ban; instantly recognisable with its consistency and blond colouring, it is “the best solution for the vast majority of businesses in the ASH supply chain.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n That is according to Vince Hurley, the Managing Director of Australian Sustainable Hardwoods (ASH), who spoke to Phillip Hopkins from the Gippsland Times<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pivot to North America comes as the Victorian industry grapples with the ban on native forest harvesting – enforceable from January 1st<\/a>, with the Heyfield-based ASH once reliant on harvested Victorian species to produce 520 cubic metres of timber a day.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n