Timberlink’s NeXTimber® Manufacturing Facility in South Australia Ready to Begin Production

Australia-based Timberlink, a producer of sustainably grown radiata pine, holds a strong desire to manufacture world-class timber products that make a positive impact on future generations safely and efficiently, according to reporting by Architecture & Design (10-4-23).

To that end, in 2020, Timberline set science-based targets to reduce its greenhouse emissions, verified by Science Based Target initiative (SBTi), and committed to reducing scope one and two greenhouse gas emissions per cubic meter by 53% by 2030.

Timberlink is about to reach another milestone this year as it completes the construction of Australia’s first combined radiata pine cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glue-laminated timber (GLT) manufacturing facility. The new, purpose-built plant is being erected right next to the existing Timberlink facility in Tarpeena, South Australia.

Back in 2021, Timberlink unveiled plans to release the new engineered wood products (EWPs) building solutions range, under the brand NeXTimber®, according to Architecture & Design. This month, the plant will kick off production.

Commenting on the opening of the new facility, David Oliver, GM Sales, Marketing, and Corporate Affairs at Timberlink, told Architecture & Design, “The introduction of NeXTimber® will see us begin to manufacture Australian-made engineered wood products and provide mass timber building solutions with CLT panels and GLT members.”

“Having a local manufacturing facility will be beneficial on a few levels,” Oliver added. “It will give industry professionals more flexibility in lead times, reduce risk to project budgets and timelines, and can remove restrictions on size section which can be imposed by shipping container limits, which in turn, allows for more flexibility in design.”