Opportunities to purchase plantation and native forest timbers

Opportunities to purchase plantation and native forest timbers

Friday 18 Jul 2025

The Forest Products Commission (the FPC) invites new, established and emerging businesses to purchase Western Australian plantation and native forest timbers.

The FPC is establishing a panel of buyers to purchase residues and industrial wood salvaged from native forest and plantation activities until 2033. These timbers are typically processed as fibre for pulp, paper, fibreboard, wood composites and energy markets.

The FPC’s Request for Proposal calls for businesses to become panel members. At the same time, the FPC is seeking offers for the first plantation and native forest timber parcels:

Request for Quote 1 - Plantation Timber

Softwood – Up to 420,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of Industrial Wood and 100,000 tpa of Residues between WA’s South West, Albany and Esperance regions.
Hardwood – up to 200,000 tonnes of various species Industrial Wood and Residue in the south west Wheatbelt region.

Request for Quote 2 – Native Forest Timber

Up to 100,000 tpa of Recovery Log from Ecological Thinning.

Over the term of the panel, new panel members can be appointed and additional timber parcels released for the panel to consider.

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Source & image credit: The Forest Products Commission, WA Government

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