Timber Development Association of New South Wales (TDA)
Welcome to the corporate website of the Timber Development Association of New South Wales (TDA). The TDA is an industry funded association representing all segments of the timber industry, from manufacture to supply.
We provide timber-related services to the timber industry, timber traders, tradespeople, architects, teachers, students and the general public with the aim of promoting the educated use of timber and timber-related products.
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TDA and Sustainability |
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TDA developed a sustainability statement many years ago, repeated below, for assistance in carrying out decisions in our operations.
Sustainability Statement
The TDA will integrate the
principles of ecologically sustainable development
into all our decision making processes, and our own activities, to mutually ensure the optimisation of welfare of this generation and all future generations. We will continue to encourage the industry we represent to be dynamic and develop business practices and products that promote sustainability. We aim to ensure the long term health of the natural resource and achieve economic, social and environmental sustainability within our industry.
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Read more... [TDA and Sustainability]
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TDA a founding member of Wood Council Australia |
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Wood Council Australia
is made up of a group of existing state timber industry technical bodies. These bodies have agreed to pool their expertise and to cooperatively rationalise their individual activities in order to concentrate on particular areas of expertise – delivering better value for money to industry members. TDA is at the forefront of this initiative and has agreed to specialise in fire and acoustics and post-consumer wood. |
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Another TDA milestone for Andrew Dunn |
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Monday, 19 July 2010 00:00 |
Andrew Dunn, our CEO, is this month celebrating his 20th year with TDA. These two decades have seen considerable change at the TDA – and momentous change within the timber industry. Looking back, Andrew emphasises, first of all, the changing role of the association:
“TDA is now in the business of creating new markets for timber,” said Andrew. “It’s no longer enough to simply promote timber within existing markets: you’ve got to open up new markets as new opportunities arise and as tastes and preferences evolve.”
Unsurprisingly, many of the most profound changes Andrew has witnessed in his time at the TDA relate to changing public attitudes towards the environment. Andrew is unequivocal about the opportunities these have created:
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Chickens step up to recycle |
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Monday, 19 July 2010 00:00 |
A TDA project to trial the use of waste timber as chicken bedding is nearing completion. The results of the trial will shortly be incorporated into an appropriate industry specification.
The project commissioned 180 cubic metres of waste timber bedding from a recycler in south-west Sydney. The bedding is being trialled, with so far positive results, by chicken growers in Peats Ridge and Raymond Terrace.
The trial indicates that waste timber bedding may successfully replace or extend bedding based on hardwood sawdust and softwood shavings. Growers were enthusiastic about this, as such bedding is sometimes difficult to obtain.
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Read more... [Chickens step up to recycle]
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