Business View Oceania - Mar 2024

works to educate clients and end users on the importance of ethical timber harvest, manufacture, and application. DTM Timber runs a multi-faceted operation that provides large logging harvest, sawmilling, timber treatment, and timber sales both locally and internationally. In the Oceania region, DTM Timber has a strong focus on quality building timber supply - a market they have been a part of for the last quarter-century. Timber products include building poles, cross arms, decking, fencing and landscaping supplies, engineered building products, flooring, piles, power poles, structural hardwood timbers, and high-end furniture and decorative timbers. DTM Timber maintains high levels of flexibility for their customers in areas such as timber species supply, sizing, aesthetics, application parameters, grade, and cost-effectiveness. They supply to residential, commercial, and industrial spheres alike. Alistair Perina, Sales and Marketing Manager, and Andrew Davies, Operational Risk & Environmental Manager, share their profound understanding of DTM Timber’s rich history, current projects, and vision for the future. Mr. Davies begins, “DTM Timber was previously known as Dale and Meyers Operations. That entity was started in 1988; Gary Dale, a transport company owner and operator, and John Meyers, a retired army Major, began our journey supplying railway and landscape sleepers for the market in Queensland (Australia). They each had skills that allowed the business to grow very quickly, and before long it was running full throttle. In 2002 Raymond (Curly) Tatnell became a partner in the business.With the passing of Gary Dale in 2016 Curly has become the sole owner and Managing Director with Ian Haines being appointed General Manager in 2019.There have been significant expansions since its inception in the way of timber and dry mills, treatment plants, retail networks, and transport operations. We now service global clients as well as our key market in Australia, and we do it in a way that benefits everybody involved.” DTM Timber currently employees approximately 130 staff across three locations in Australia; Maryborough (Queensland), Tiaro (Queensland), 91 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 06, ISSUE 03 DTM T IMBER