THE AWISA MAGAZINE softwoods
by John Halkett
New timber warehouse facility for Brisbane Brisbane timber merchants were introduced to Stora Enso Timber Australia’s new 18,000 square metre warehouse facility in the Brisbane suburb of Virginia in October, taking part in a day of sporting and social events to celebrate the opening. Guests were welcomed by managing director Matthew Wood and Kurt Schrammel, the Finnish forestry company’s vice-president of marketing and sales, based in Austria. The opening of the Virginia warehouse with 12,000 square metres of outside storage and 6000 square metres under cover, will be followed by the commissioning of a new 38,000 square metre complex at Derrimut, 18km west of Melbourne in March next year. Stora Enso currently holds about 40,000 cubic metres of timber in warehouse storage in Melbourne, Adelaide, Gosford and Brisbane. The main product range is structural timber framing for wall and truss manufacturing, supplied mostly from the company’s sawmills in the Baltics and central Europe. “Our vision is to maintain and further develop our position as the number one quality supplier of European softwoods in the Australian market,” said Mr Wood.
“We are committed to continuing to strengthen our presence in the Australian market in support of the home builders, and jobs in the building and construction industries.” Based in Finland, Stora Enso has an annual production capacity of 6.4 million cubic metres of sawn timber, including 3.2 million cubic metres of value-added products, 11.8 million tonnes of paper board and 1.3 billion square metres of corrugated packaging. The group has around 26,000 employees and 85 production units worldwide.
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Making a tour of the Stora Enso Australia’s new Virginia warehouse are David Thomas, Stora Enso sales, Brisbane, Christian Wenlof, Stora Enso sales support manager, Sweden, Mona Forsberg, Stora Enso Paper, Sydney, John Halkett, Australian Timber Importers Federation, Sydney, Helen Pham, Stora Enso, John Titmarsh, Gill and Co, Rocklea and Cleveland, Ken Newing, Virginia Building Supplies, and Teresa Lotho, Stora Enso.
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