Boral is the largest vertically-integrated construction materials company in Australia. Our network includes prized quarry and cement infrastructure, bitumen, construction materials recycling, asphalt, and concrete batching operations.
We employ about 9,000 employees and contractors across our operations that span more than 360 sites nationwide.
For 80 years, we’ve been building something great in Australia - rarely a day goes by that you wouldn’t pass one of our sites or trucks, enter a building, use a road, bridge, tunnel, footpath, or other critical infrastructure that our people and products have helped enable.
Australian Paper is the only Australian manufacturer of printing, communication and packaging papers. It is best known for Reflex® office paper, an iconic Superbrands product. Each year, Australian Paper produces more than 1,100,000 tonnes of pulp and paper for the Australian and New Zealand markets and exports to a further 70 countries around the world.
Australian Paper employs more than 1,300 Australians, mostly in regional communities, and 95% of its production inputs are sourced locally. In 2012 Australian Paper’s operations contributed $754 million to Australia’s gross domestic product.
The Australian Paper mill is located at Maryvale in Victoria. The corporate and sales and marketing offices are based in Melbourne, Victoria along with the envelope and stationery converting plant in Preston. Preston produces around 2 billion envelopes annually and over 10 million scholastic books for back to school. Most Australians would have grown up with Tudor® and Olympic exercise and binder books.
Australian Paper's operations also support around 6,000 full-time equivalent direct and indirect Australian jobs. Australian Paper is owned by the Nippon Paper Group Inc. since 2009.
Sustainable Timber Tasmania is a Tasmanian Government Business Enterprise responsible under State legislation for:
- Sustainably managing approximately 800,000 hectares of public production forest (Permanent Timber Production Zone land)
- Undertaking forest operations for the production and sale of forest products from these forests (including making available at least 137,000 cubic metres of high quality eucalypt sawlogs and veneer logs per annum).
Sustainable Timber Tasmania purpose is to be a customer-focused and financially viable forest products and services provider, sustainably managing Permanent Timber Production Zone land for multiple-use as a community asset.
Sustainable Timber Tasmania aims to:
- Achieve and maintain financial sustainability
- Efficiently and effectively make available agreed wood volumes and other services
- Professionally manage public production forests to maintain wood resources and other environmental, cultural and economic values
- Achieve zero harm to our people and contractors.
Our forest management is currently certified under the Australian Forestry Standard which is recognised, under the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification, as being an independent assurance of legal and sustainable timber supply. We are also in the process of seeking certification for our operations under Forest Stewardship Council® standards.