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    AMA - Australias Forest Industries at A Glance

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    Forest industries in Australia provide direct employment for 80,000 people and indirect employment for 100,000 people. They plant more than 70 million plantation trees each year, which store 258 million tonnes of carbon and help build more than 162,000 homes annually. Forest product operations are certified as sustainable and carbon positive.

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    Forest industries in Australia provide direct employment for 80,000 people and indirect employment for 100,000 people. They plant more than 70 million plantation trees each year, which store 258 million tonnes of carbon and help build more than 162,000 homes annually. Forest product operations are certified as sustainable and carbon positive.

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    Forest industries in Australia provide direct employment for 80,000 people and indirect employment for 100,000 people. They plant more than 70 million plantation trees each year, which store 258 million tonnes of carbon and help build more than 162,000 homes annually. Forest product operations are certified as sustainable and carbon positive.

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    AUSTRALIA’S FOREST INDUSTRIES

    AT A GLANCE

    AFPA is the peak national industry body representing the resources,


    processing, and pulp and paper industries covering the forest
    products value chain.
    AFPA represents all elements of the value chain from the sustainable
    harvesting of plantations and multiple use natural forest resource
    including forest establishment and management, harvesting and
    haulage, processing of timber resources and manufacture of pulp
    and paper.

    ausfpa.com.au 02 6285 3833 PO Box 239


    W T A Deakin West
    ACT 2600 Australia
    INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT MAKING THE PRODUCTS YOU LOVE...
    NATIVE FOREST TIMBER MAKES...
    Forest industries provide Floorboards, staircases and furniture, while the residues and secondary
    Forest industries are
    timbers are used to make pallets, paper and packaging, replacing single
    the keystone employer direct employment for 80,000
    use plastics. Timber production for appearance-grade hardwood timber
    in many regional towns people & indirect employment products occurs in designated areas that almost always have been previously
    for 100,000 people harvested. After harvest, these areas are regenerated, with no net loss of forest
    over time.

    PLANTATION FOREST TIMBER MAKES...


    The timber frames for our homes, engineered wood products used to build
    new multi-storey residential and commercial buildings, wood-based panels
    for our kitchens, and wood fibre used to manufacture magazines, paper boxes
    Forest industries plant Our forestry operations are and packaging, replacing single use plastics. In addition, residues go into making
    carbon positive & our potting mix, mulches, composts and landscaped products for our gardens.
    C
    more than 70 million
    plantation trees each year plantations store 258 million
    tonnes of carbon

    ...FROM CERTIFIED, SUSTAINABLY MANAGED


    NATIVE FORESTS AND PLANTATIONS
    NATIVE FORESTRY
    AFPA members are Forest industries Australia has 132 million hectares of
    native forest. Just 78,000 hectares
    100% globally certified contribute $24 billion a - or 0.06 per cent - is harvested for
    year to Australia’s economy timber production annually, and then The equivalent of 6
    regenerated by law.
    trees out of 10,000
    are used each year
    and the areas
    then regenerated.

    Renewable timber products Australia has a trade deficit in


    help build more than forest products of more than X10
    162,000 homes a year $2 billion a year
    PLANTATION FORESTRY
    There are 385 million hectares
    of agricultural land in Australia.
    Plantations occupy around 1.9
    million hectares or about 0.5%.
    The equivalent of
    3 trees out of 100 are
    used each year and then
    There are almost 2 million There are 132 million hectares of
    the area is replanted.
    hectares of forest plantations native forest in Australia, of which
    On average we plant 70
    (hardwood and softwood) less than 0.06% is harvested each
    in Australia year & always regenerated million trees each year.

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