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.

	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.

Cocowood partners talk on ABC 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

	Sampling cocowood for research Have you seen the cocowood image gallery yet?  A photo series showing cocowood sampling for grading and processing research has been posted.  Register now or go to the image gallery.