Business View Oceania | April/May 2022

41 42 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 PORTA KNOWAND LOVE TIMBER A leading supplier of world-class timber products, Porta has supported Australia’s commercial market for over 70 years. The company is Australian owned and locally operated, having built their reputation traditionally through quality timber mouldings, and more recently lining and external use products. Porta supports clients in home improvement, building, and trades sectors, including major timber merchants such as Bunnings, Bowens, Mitre 10, and Home Timber & Hardware. Porta supplies timber products with a variety of applications, including mouldings (architraves and skirting, decorative ceiling and wall trims, dowels, dressed all-round boards, furniture dowels, handrails, picture framing, windows and doors, and general purpose and custom mouldings), interiors (Porta Contours and Porta Handrail System), and exteriors (Porta Cumaru, Porta Endure, and H3 Treated Pine). General Manager Zoran Jovanovski shares Porta’s evolution since their founding in the 1950’s. “We have a really rich history of manufacturing and distribution. For our first 60 years, we were really well-known for our timber mouldings. We have since expanded more broadly into industrial OEM and commercial markets, so a lot of our products are specified via architects and designers and end up in a variety of different commercial environments- anywhere from AT A GLANCE PORTA WHAT: Leading supplier of timber products to residential and commercial building markets in Australia and beyond WHERE: Porta is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia WEBSITE: https://www.porta.com.au