FWPA’s RD&E program invests in projects in the three areas of a) Market Access and Development, b) Wood Products and c) Sustainability & Resources.
The projects and their resultant outcomes are published on the FWPA website. Listed below are some recently contracted projects.
| Project (Research Provider) | FWPA invests | Total budget |
| Investigate the possibility of using wood and wood waste as feedstock for 3D printing (Uni Southern Queensland) | $60,000 | $216,000 |
| WeedChem – a forest industry herbicide prescription selection system (ForestrySA) | $10,000 | $32,000 |
| Optimizing remotely acquired, dense point cloud data for plantation inventory (Scion) | $250,000 | $997,732 |
| Improving productivity of the sub-tropical private native forest resource (QDAF) | $156,000 | $810,576 |
| Weatherproofing verification of timber cladding profiles based by the verification method given in 2015 BCA Part F1 (TDA NSW) | $80,000 | $108,150 |
| Implementation of NIR-based QC of H2F Working Solutions (Meder Consulting) | $28,000 | $71,798 |
| Industrial heat credits from sawmill and other agricultural by-products (Energetics) | $12,960 | $12,960 |
