Final Report Project NT015 – Developing a New Generation of Tasmanian Appearance Hardwood Products for In-State Design and Manufacturing

This project demonstrates a design-led project in the Tasmanian timber industry to generate novel engineered appearance wood products for in-state manufacturing. Previous reports have documented the design journey, knowledge creation and concept development over the course of the project.

The focus of this report is to present the concluding stage of the project; production ramp-up and industry trials. Key to this stage of the project was to demonstrate and validate the manufacturing process for an engineered timber flooring product in conjunction with project partners using in-state commercial practices. Further to this the comparative testing of low-density plantation timber flooring prototypes with an existing market competitor.