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Proposed $200m timber hub promises jobs and building materials boost
The timber manufacturing hub would transform blue gum wood chips into timber beams for construction.
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A $200 million manufacturing hub is expected to provide a new locally made timber product for the Australian construction industry, helping fill a gap left by the end of native timber logging.
The proposed Future Portland Hardwood Timber Manufacturing Hub would span about 35 hectares in the heart of timber plantation country near Portland, about four hours west of Melbourne.
The Green Triangle Forest Industries Hub had led a feasibility study on the project, which it said confirmed viability of turning locally-grown blue gum, currently exported as wood chips, into a range of building materials on-site in the state's west.
The organisation said this included glue-laminated timber which was as strong as steel or concrete and was widely used in building construction.
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