Through strategic leadership, on-ground innovation, and long-term industry vision, ABP is helping shape a domestic market for its plantation Eucalyptus globulus hardwood. From commercialising engineered wood products to guiding the development of a new manufacturing hub, ABP is proud to support the next chapter of Australia’s wood product market.
Across multiple major government-backed initiatives — including Splinters to Structures, the Hardwood Timber Manufacturing Hub Feasibility Study, and the landmark Precinct Project — ABP is creating pathways for high-value, domestically manufactured plantation hardwood products.
The Precinct Project
The Precinct Project is a nationally significant initiative to explore the feasibility of establishing Australia’s first hardwood-focused advanced manufacturing hub in the Green Triangle. Built on circular-economy principles, the Precinct project is investigating the use of Green Triangle grown plantation timber, both hardwood and softwood, into high-value engineered wood products (GLT -Glue Laminated Timber and LVL – Laminated Veneer Lumber) and prefabricated dwelling components, supporting regional jobs, sovereign capability and Australia’s net-zero ambitions.
The project’s early work will deliver feasibility studies into GLT, LVL, biomass, biorefining and biochar, followed by advanced exploration into prefabricated dwelling and component manufacturing. This includes concept design and feasibility for a new Fabrication Centre, as well as investigation into a future Plantation Hardwood ACCU Methodology.
ABP is a foundation project partner in the feasibility study, supplying fibre, expertise and strategic leadership.
Turning Splinters into Structures
The Precinct builds directly from the Victorian Government backed Hardwood Timber Manufacturing Hub (HTMH) Feasibility Study which is testing the technical, commercial and market viability of establishing an advanced manufacturing hub in the Glenelg Shire, in the heart of the Green Triangle in south west Victoria. The project evolved from the Federal Government’s Splinters to Structures Project, which successfully demonstrated how traditionally exported fibre, with no specific domestic market both hardwood and softwood, could be transformed into structural engineered products.
This breakthrough trial successfully commercialised ABP-grown Eucalyptus globulus into Glue Laminated Timber (GLT) achieving GL18–21, with test results showing potential up to GL25—creating a renewable, structural-grade product capable of competing against steel and concrete in major applications.
Together, these studies will form a fully integrated business model and investment case for a turnkey, multi-user advanced manufacturing facility—unlocking new regional investment and national capability.
ABP’s sponsorship of the Precinct project is a strategic investment in the future of plantation hardwood which will support new markets and manufacturing pathways, setting the agenda for hardwood to stand as a partner to softwood in Australia’s future built environment.