QLD Field Trip: Mary Valley
The Forestry Australia Queensland Branch would like to invite members and friends to our first field trip of 2025. This field trip will witness the full spectrum of timber manufacturing at Superior Wood, Mary Valley Timber Mill and Laminex (Toolara).
Superior Wood is a fourth-generation family business established in 1875 and is the leading manufacturer and distributor of Araucaria Cunninghamii softwood products in the world. Araucaria is a premium quality softwood that is locally sourced from internationally recognised and sustainably managed plantations.
Mary Valley Timbers is a hardwood sawmill based in the heart of timber country, near Gympie. Operating from the site of the original Dagun Sawmill, Mary Valley Timbers is one the few remaining working sawmills in a region long synonymous with forestry.
Laminex’s Toolara MDF plant produces around 330,000m3 of MDF, requiring 500,000 tonnes of wood, half of which currently comes from Hyne Timber woodchips. The woodchips are made from the parts of logs left over from Hyne’s production of structural timber products, under their wastage-minimising “whole of log” approach to forestry.
We look forward to welcoming you on our field trip!
Title: Sawmilling in the Mary Valley
Date: Wednesday 19 February
Location: Matilda (The Giant Kangaroo) Statue, 1516 Bruce Hwy, Kybong QLD 4570
Equipment: Hard hat
Registrations (Inc. GST):
Forestry Australia Member: $10 | Non-members: $25
Registrations close: Monday 17 February
Please note: This event will be capped at 40 participants.
PROGRAM
9.00 am – Meet at Matilda (The Giant Kangaroo) Statue, 1516 Bruce Hwy, Kybong QLD 4570, and arrange carpooling
9.15 am – 9.30 am – Drive to Superior Wood, 511 Yabba Creek Rd, Imbil QLD 4570
9.30 am – 11.00 am – Superior Wood (Araucaria processing)
11.15 am – 11.30 am – Drive to Mary Valley Timbers, 7 Kimlin Ln, Dagun QLD 4570
11.30 am – 1.00 pm – Mary Valley Timbers (Hardwood processing)
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm – Lunch, and drive to Laminex, Tin Can Bay Rd, Toolara Forest QLD 4570
2.00 pm – 3.30 pm – Laminex (Softwood processing for MDF)
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm – Return to Matilda (The Giant Kangaroo) Statue, 1516 Bruce Hwy, Kybong QLD 4570
4.00 pm – End of day
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Date: Saturday 30 November 2024
Field Trip: South Burnett
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Field Trip: Mount Mee
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Field Trip: Bunya Mountains
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Field Trip: Sherwood Arboretum Tour
Date: Saturday 6 May 2023
Field Trip: K’gari-Fraser Island
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Dates: Friday 7 to Sunday 9 October 2022
Field Trip: Chinchilla
Dates: Friday 5 – Sunday 7 August 2022
Networking Event: Townsville
Manufacturing of waste hardwood (WPC) & inspection of recently harvested African Mahogany logs
Date: Sunday 16 January
Location: QPlas P/L Factory, 80 Shaw Rd, Townsville
AGM & Field Trip in Gympie
USC Research trial plantings
Date: Saturday 20 November 2021
Field Trip: Araucaria plantation management, fire recovery and tree planting at Jimna
Date: Saturday 20 March 2021