Market development with NZ’s specialty timbers

The NZ Farm Forestry Association has set up a national industry body representing the interests of local specialty timber producers and those with an interest in specialty timbers. The new web resource, www.nzffa.org.nz/specialty-timber-market/, the "home" of Farm Forestry Timbers, includes extensive information about a range of local timber species, a photographic showcase of each timber in use and an online marketplace for products and services around local specialty timbers.

As well as information on the various New Zealand standards that apply to timber construction with "alternative" timbers Farm Forestry Timbers have set up their own grading rules which all members must comply with when supplying timber through the web-marketplace. The grade rules can be viewed on the website, so that buyers can select timber grades to suit their requirements and are assured they will get what they expect.

"A centralised marketplace and brand is the platform on which the NZFFA is collectively launching their regionally based products. The marketplace is the centre of the website, where anybody who has a service or product to offer relating to locally grown specialty timbers can participate by joining the group. The marketplace is available for anybody to browse and link up with suppliers and services they seek. Growers can market trees or logs, sawmillers can seek logs, merchants can buy and sell timber; architects, builders and engineers can offer their services... everybody involved in the value chain can link up or simply offer their product or service to the market."

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