Nearly 120 jobs on the line at Tokoroa plywood plant

Friday 19 Sep 2025

 
More than 100 jobs are on the line in Tokoroa as Carter Holt Harvey plans to shut down its local plywood manufacturing site. E tū delegate Andrew Dobbs, who had worked at CHH in Tokoroa for 24 years, said members were devastated.

"It’s just really sad. We knew things were tough, but I didn’t expect them to stop manufacturing altogether. You’d say people are feeling sad and depressed – it’s not quite a closure, but there will be so few people left there, making nothing, just reprocessing imports to send to market.

"Basically, imported product is just too cheap for us to compete with, that’s the guts of it. Personally, I don’t want to move out of town, but that might be the only choice we’ve got."

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