Timberlink Opens NeXTimber Manufacturing Facility in Tarpeena, South Australia

On February 29th, Timberlink officially opened its NeXTimber® by Timberlink® manufacturing facility and upgraded green mill located in Tarpeena, South Australia.

The newly commissioned NeXTimber facility is Australia’s only combined CLT and GLT radiata pine mass timber facility and the first in Australia to be integrated with a structural timber manufacturing plant. The facility can produce CLT panels up to 16M long and 3.5M wide and GLT beams up to 12M long.

Timberlink’s $70M (AUD) capital investment to build a mass timber production facility was announced in 2020, supported by a $2M grant awarded by the South Australia government under the Strategic Business Round 2020 of the Government of South Australia’s Regional Growth Fund. The NeXTimber brand was announced in 2021 with the tagline “It’s what better tomorrows are built on.”

Ground was broken with the first sod turn in Tarpeena in 2022 and construction of the site continued until late 2023. The facility has been taking orders since November 2023, a testament to the hard work of many. The NeXTimber facility has created new jobs not only during the construction phase, but on an ongoing basis with over 30 new full-time positions.