Processors and suppliers

Timber processors and suppliers are an essential part of the alternative species supply chain. Milling, drying and processing eucalypts at any scale requires specialist skills: small-scale fixed and mobile sawmillers with commercial operations processing alternative species are becoming scarce and are a very valuable resource. 

Small-scale sawmillers milling eucalypts

The following sawmillers are recommended for anyone interested in purchasing rough-sawn eucalypt timber, resawn/processed timber and timber products:

• Ruapehu Sawmills, Raetihi, central North Island: contact Vaughan Kearns,  tel: 027 445 7138    Email: ruapehusawmils@xtra.co.nz
• Specialty Timber Solutions, Sefton, North Canterbury: www.specialtytimbers.co.nz   Contact John Fairweather, tel:  021 2110705 Email: jrf@xtra.co.nz
• MacBlack Timber, Whanganui: www.macblack.co.nz/  tel: 0204 622 255  Timber sales - Email: sales@macblack.co.nz  Sawmilling: Hamish Randle  Email: hamish@macblack.co.nz

NZ Farm Forestry Association Farm Forestry Timbers

The NZFFA's Farm Forestry Timbers website provides information about all New Zealand's specialty timber species and an on-line marketplace for products and services around specialty timbers.