Manufacturing

‘THE PRECINCT’ Project – Development & Research Funding Commitment

21 October 2025

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA Australian Forest & Wood Innovations (AFWI)* has committed development and research funding to THE PRECINCT project, being led by IndustryEdge. The multi-year, multi-phase project is an “Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Strategy and Feasibility to […]

Unlock Strategic Insights with the 2025 Pulp, Paper & Paper Products Reviews

31 August 2025

Your essential guide to navigating Australasia’s pulp, paper, and packaging markets IndustryEdge is proud to present the 34th annual edition of the Pulp, Paper & Paper Products Strategic Reviews—the most comprehensive and trusted resource for […]

INSIGHTS: Prefabricated building imports are growing, but remain small

17 August 2025

GEELONG, AUSTRALIA: As the emphasis and debate on prefabrication of buildings and building components rages – especially for dwellings – the data demonstrates imports are unlikely to be a significant element of prefabricated building supply, […]

Paper and paperboard trade with USA: Tariffs in Context – First in A Series

03 April 2025

In 2024, Australia’s paper and paperboard trade deficit with the USA was AUD36 million 2024 exports to the USA were AUD139.7 million 2024 imports from the USA were AUD175.8 million The announcement by the US […]

Australian pulp consumption fell 10.1% in 2023-24. Here’s why

30 September 2024

GEELONG, AUSTRALIA Total consumption of virgin fibre pulp in Australia fell 10.1% in 2023-24, deteriorating to a four-decade low of 1.404 million tonnes. Reduced pulp production was joined by lower imports, the latter at a […]

Australia’s recovered paper use lifts to all-time high

22 September 2024

GEELONG, AUSTRALIA: Paperboard producers in Australia lifted their use of recovered paper to an all-time high in 2023-24. Local producers used 1.879 million tonnes of recovered paper for the year, a lift of 8.2% or […]

How is NZ’s energy crisis impacting the pulp, paper and packaging industry?

01 September 2024

GEELONG, AUSTRALIA New Zealand’s pulp and paper industry has lost a pulp mill – and could lose another – to an energy crisis that shows little signs of abating. The Winstone Pulp International (WPI) pulp […]

Packaging paper and board imports up, but its finished products that are exploding

04 July 2024

GEELONG, AUSTRALIA Australia’s packaging paper and paper board imports were up 4.3% in total, year-ended April 2024. Imports totalled 236.1 kt for the year. As the table shows, the major increase in imports has been […]

Economics Briefing Nov 2023: Manufacturing input costs flatten out – fabricated steel aside

30 November 2023

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Sawn softwood imports down 36.5% year-ended August

02 November 2023

Over the year-ended August 2023, sawn softwood imports totalled 607,417 m3, down 36.5% on the year prior. Imports are beginning to stabilise and look likely to settle somewhere close to 42,000 m3 on average per […]

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