FWPA
News
Annual starts for new houses fell below 100,000 per annum for the first time in eleven years, over the year-ended December 2023. With approvals at their lowest level since March 2013, it is not…
FWPA
News
Prices for Australian housing continue to increase, pushing mortgages and lending to new heights. The value of new housing loans lifted 17.9% year ending March 2024 to $27.6 billion. One dri…
FWPA
Webinar
This webinar is part if a webinar series. You can listen to webinar 1 via this link and webinar 3 via this link. In the second instalment of our special FWPA Statistics and Economics Webinar seri…
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News
Forest & Wood Products Australia (FWPA) is pleased to share new research introducing biased position testing as a cost-effective and efficient method for the verification of structur…
FWPA
Report
Project number: PRA497-1920 The Biased position testing for verification of structural softwood project explores the use of biased position testing as a cost-effective method for verify…
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News
Australia’s imports of sawn softwood have stabilised over recent months, having been wound in over 2023, as importers worked to rebalance a seemingly over-stocked domestic market. Over th…
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News
Latest data from FWPA confirms Eastcoast prices for key sawn structural softwood products are continuing to ease. The data is consistent with the ABS producer price series (discussed elsew…
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News
Sawn softwood packaging grade sales totalled 616,404 m3 year-ended February 2024, down 8.2% on the previous year’s volume. Some packaging grades are reported to be in the small but currentl…