Business View Oceania | February 2021

29 30 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA FEBRUARY 2021 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA FEBRUARY 2021 AT A GLANCE WOODSPAN PLT PANELS WHAT: An industrial scale producer of parallel laminated timber (PLT) panels WHERE: New Plymouth, NZ WEBSITE: www.woodspan.co.nz Woodspan PLT PANELS Sustainable mass timber solutions A proud, New Zealand owned business, Woodspan PLT Panels is revolutionizing the NZ prefab timber construction sector with its signature brand parallel laminated timber (PLT) mass timber panels and glulam engineered wood products. The company is a division of Taranakipine, well known in Australia and New Zealand as an experienced and trusted manufacturer of engineered timber products for 40 years. The dedicated Woodspan team are focused on providing sustainable, high quality product solutions to the building industry using materials sourced from 100% renewable New Zealand radiata pine plantations. Woodspan PLT’s innovative engineered timber panel system is ideal for residential and commercial floor and roof construction. During the prefabrication process, fingerjointed or solid timber boards are laminated into large panels with all grain running parallel to panel span direction to produce a strong, structurally efficient panel. Tom Boon, CEO of Taranakipine and Woodspan Ltd, explains, “Taranakipine is a well-established sawmilling business specialising in finger-jointed and laminated products, and Woodspan is an expansion of our laminated timber business. It’s wholly owned by the same shareholders (including myself) of Taranakipine but because the Woodspan PLT product is brand specific to the construction industry, we wanted to keep Woodspan PLT as a separate brand identity.” While Woodspan PLT Panels, itself, is only two years old, promoting the connection to the longstanding Taranakipine sawmilling business is key to assuring the market that they have a secure supply of raw logs and manufacturing capability. As Boon tells people, “We’ve been gluing timber together into structural laminated products for over 30 years. This is just an extension of our product range with