Since 1984 Adam’s Sawmill Pty Ltd at Bonville in New South Wales has been proudly owned and operated by the late Kerr Adam and his family. It has a strong reputation for supplying the highest quality hardwood at the most competitive prices.
Sadly, Kerr passed away two years ago. But his legacy lives on through the mill and his daughter Tania who has taken over its management.
Kerr began his sawmilling career by cutting sleepers for the Victorian railways in the late 1960s. By 1984 he had relocated to Coffs Harbour with the intention of taking early retirement. However, when an existing sawmill came up for sale the opportunity to re-enter the timber industry was too exciting to turn down, and Adam’s Sawmill was born!
Almost four decades later, the company employs 25 people and supports many associated businesses. Kerr knew everything there was to know about the timber species that passed through his family’s mill, as well as every intricacy of the operations and the hardwood elements it produces. This wealth of knowledge has been passed down to the next generation of the Adam family.
The hardwood timber supplied by Adam’s Sawmill is rough sawn and green. The mill does not kiln dry, dress or treat its wood. The wood from this mill has the advantage of offering natural and rustic-looking products.
Every part of every log that enters the mill is used; nothing goes to waste. That’s great news for keeping down costs and prices, and the mill’s environmental impact.
Adam’s Sawmill produces an extensive range of general timber construction elements, fencing timber and hardwood garden sleepers, as well as woodchip and mulch for the landscape industry, created using sawdust, offcuts and bark.
The team at Adam’s Sawmill takes pride in the quality of the timber it produces, the fast and reliable service offered, and the strength of the relationships it enjoys with suppliers and customers, old and new.
One past project the team is particularly proud of is its involvement in the $4 million expansion of Coffs Harbour Regional Airport in 1999. Adam’s Sawmill supplied the timber for the feature ceiling in the new terminal, often described as ‘the best airport on the east coast of Australia’ and an ‘absolutely beautiful airport’.
Adam’s Sawmill also supplied Indigenous hardwoods for the Urunga Boardwalk’s 400-metre extension in 2010. This initiative was intended to provide locals and visitors with safe, practical and wheelchair access to the beach, while simultaneously protecting the adjacent sand dunes, fragile wetlands and endangered ecological systems from pedestrian traffic.
The extension increased the total length to almost a kilometre, allowing locals and visitors to Urunga to comfortably walk to the mouth of the Bellinger River and view coastal salt marsh and communities along the way.
Adam’s Sawmill supplies various landscaping timbers, woodchip and eucalyptus mulch to the Coffs Harbour City Council and other local authorities for beautification projects that improve the aesthetic of the local area.
