Tender open at IST Geeveston - 15 logs are for sale by tender until 4.30 pm on Monday 30 January 2012 - 7 black-heart sassafras, 2 blackwood, one burled and one plain myrtle, one burled ecualypt, one celery-top pine and 2 Huon pine. If you have any questions about this tender please contact Mr Chris Emmett on email istsales@forestrytas.com.au or at 03 6295 7161.
First Tender at IST Smithton in 2012 - a tender of special timbers logs, stumps etc will be conducted from Thursday 16 - Friday 24 February. Descriptions of the pieces being offered will be posted on this website and anyone on the tenders data base will receive details by Tuesday 14 February.
Our ability to conduct tenders of specialty timbers material during 2012 will depend on the availability and quality of raw material from which to select pieces for tender.
If you wish to receive notice of future tenders and newsletters please email a request to murray.jessup@forestrytas.com.au
Display at Building Selection Centre, Hobart - are you planning to build, extend or renovate and need to see examples of Tasmania's specialty timbers? Visit our display at BSC (formerly called the Home Ideas Centre) 309 Liverpool St, Hobart to see the beauty of these timbers and examples of celery-top pine, blackwood, myrtle, black-heart sassafras and Huon pine used for verandahs, decks, benches, shelves, flooring and panelling. The BSC is open each day from 9.00 am - 5.00 pm and has off-street parking.
Island Specialty Timbers, (IST) an enterprise of Forestry Tasmania was established at Geeveston in 1992 to increase the recovery, availability and value of specialty timbers from harvesting activities in State forests. Now three operation centres for IST - Geeveston, Strahan and Smithton, receive or select logs, burls and stumps to sell to wood users. IST Geeveston also mill logs, burls and stumps into slabs or timber which are sold seasoned or green for furniture or craft designer / makers, builders, wood-turners, boat builders / repairers and luthiers. IST Strahan salvage and sell Huon pine craft logs, craftwood, limbwood and stumps. IST Smithton sell a range of raw material: logs, burls, stumps plus Huon pine craft logs, craft pieces and limb wood. No sawn timber is sold from IST Smithton or IST Strahan, please contact sawmills at Smithton, Camdale, Strahan, or Lynchford (south of Queenstown).
The special timbers processed by IST are harvested from forests whose managment by Forestry Tasmania has been certified under national and international standards, the Australian Forestry Standard (AFS) and the International Standards for Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001).
The three IST sites are licensed Chain of Custody members, FTT 08005, to guarantee customers that all their raw material and products are Tasmanian fine timbers sourced from AFS certified forests. The Chain of Custody system is managed by Fine Timber Tasmania Inc., maintained by a coordinator and is annually assessed by independent auditors.
Huon Pine material is sourced from sites previously harvested for sawlogs, from stockpiles salvaged many years ago, prior to dam construction and from logs recovered after river floods.
Eighty five (85) per cent of all Huon Pine forests are permanently reserved within National Parks & Reserves.
updated on 23 December 2011.
