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December10 Cocowood processing manual available. More

December10 ACIAR Partners e-magazine features cocowood: 'Pacific's tree of life to rise again'. More

August10 Cocowood properties and processing fact sheet updated. More 

June10 Supplying cocowood in Fiji - a challenge. More

June10 Cocowood seminar in Suva June 3rd 2010. More

  
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 Welcome to cocowood

The cocowood project is helping cocowood enter the Australian and international flooring market.

The ACIAR project ‘Improving the value and marketability of coconut wood’  is providing the science to underpin coconut wood production, engineering and marketing initiatives and address gaps in our understanding of cocowood properties and suitable processing technologies.

 

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ACIAR Partners Magazine features a cocowood article: Pacific's tree of life to rise again'. Go to ACIAR Partners Magazine November 2010

Cocowood processing manual           NEW December 2010
This describes best practice for producing high-value flooring products from cocowood. It meets international standards for flooring products, accounting for the specific, local conditions of the Pacific islands.

Learn more about the manual and download a copy here.
 

Cocowood properties and processing facts
The revised version of the technical fact sheet provides more information about cocowood properties and processing for flooring products. Download.
 

Cocowood supply in Fiji - a challenge
Fiji Sun reports on the cocowood for high value flooring seminar held in Suva, June 3rd. Read more.

Press release- Potential income from old coconut trees
SPC and ACIAR organise a seminar to raise awareness about the potential of processing senile coconut palms for high value flooring products. Read more.
 
 


 

Coconut palms – the timber of the future
We see them along our beachfronts and in many streets and gardens, but the iconic palm tree may soon have a new place in the Queensland lifestyle as a high quality timber product. Read more.

 

Precision drying technology for cocowood processors
Forestry and timber specialists from Fiji and Samoa learned how to dry coconut stem ‘wood’ to produce high value ‘timber’ products in Brisbane, recently Read more.

 

    


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