The Government is committed to creating jobs and committed to rebuilding the forestry industry.
Today’s launch of the ARBRE Hub at Invermay is a step in the right direction to growing the forestry industry and making sure it has a sustainable future.
The Hub will bring together the government, industry and the training sector to boost skills in the industry.
Tasmania produces some of the best timber in the world and to unlock the potential of our forestry industry we need to develop new and higher value uses for the timber we produce.
That’s why innovation and development is so important.
The ARBRE Hub fits perfectly into this vision and will help develop a growing forestry industry workforce with the skills to help the industry succeed.
The ARBRE Hub brings together Forico, the Km Group, Elphinstone Engineering, Timberland Pacific, IFARM, Forestry Tasmania and Norske Skog to train the next generation of forestry workers.
The Hub will use existing industry assets including land, buildings and machinery to give real world hands-on training. The Tasmanian Government has invested $150,000 to help establish the Hub.
The Hub will fund its own ongoing costs, with key industry stakeholders to fund management and the ongoing operation, and operating costs to be funded through industry sponsors and operating income from training.
We are now seeing green shoots in the forest industry under this Government. We’ve secured sawmilling jobs, put Forestry Tasmania on a sustainable financial path, given workplaces the strongest protection laws in the country and we’ve torn up the disastrous Labor-Green forest deal.