About NIFPI

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WHO WE ARE

The National Institute for Forest Products Innovation is committed to promoting and encouraging innovation in Australia’s forest and wood products industry.

The Australian, South Australian, Tasmanian and Victorian Governments combined initial commitment of $15 million has enabled three National Institute for Forest Products Innovation Centres to be established. The Centres are based at Gippsland, Mount Gambier and Launceston, and exist to provide a major boost to the forest industries in those regions and the thousands of regional jobs they support.

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$15M

Government commitment

We aim to improve the returns to industry and the community from our plantation and native forest estates consistent with their sustainable management.

WHAT WE DO

Our commitment to innovation

Financial Support

State Governments have committed a total of $8 million towards the operations of their local Centre, while the Australian Government committed $7 million at the project level between the three. Additional financial support is anticipated to be received from industry.

Supporting Research

The National Institute for Forest and Wood Products Innovation comprises three innovation Centres, each playing a vital role in supporting cutting-edge research, fostering collaboration, boosting innovation, increasing profitability, maintaining jobs and growing the market.

Advisory Committees

Industry-driven regional advisory committees in South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria work to determine each Centre’s research priorities and projects. The committees look to support world’s best practice projects that will have a tangible impact on the forest sector.
WHAT WE DO

Media Centre

Joint media release: Funding for forestry and wood product innovation

$3 million investment to grow South Australian forestry

Gippsland forestry research drives national innovation

Joint media release: Forest products innovation centre to drive forestry research in Gippsland

Growing forest research in Mount Gambier

Delivering innovative forest research in Mount Gambier

Future-focused forest research grows in Tasmania

New forestry research puts Launceston at the cutting edge