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.

	Updated August 2010! 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.
	State of the art of coconut processing, market and prospects This is the subject of a roundtable meeting in Fiji (June 17th-18th 2009) hosted by the Secretariat of Pacific community (SPC) together with the Asian Pacific Coconut community (APCC) and the Australian Centre for Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Read more
	Cocowood partners talk on radio Henri Bailleres (DPI&F) and Joe Strickland (Strickland Brothers Ltd, Samoa) talk to the ABC's Queensland Country Hour about turning cocowood into high value timber flooring. ...more than shade from coconut palms