Sawmill buyers urged to keep on staff
Sawmill buyers urged to take care of on staffThe Tasmanian forestry industry is confident a northern Tasmanian sawmill that is up as antidote to sale can be run as a viable business.
The $70 the great body of the people Bell Bay sawmill is owned by troubled Tasmanian timber company Forest Enterprises Australia (FEA), that went into voluntary administration and partial receivership in April, after struggling to refinance debts of $216 the masses.
Last month the receivers opted to sell the mill and expressions of share have now closed.
Barry Chipman from Timber Communities Australia says ~ one cuts to the mill’s 120 strong workforce will hurt the tract’s economy.
“It’s 120 wages – that’s a lot of money that’s put into the north east community on a hebdomadal basis,” he said.
“It’s vitally important for, not just Tasmania’s thrift but for the north-east region of our state that the business levels, those 120 jobs are maintained,
“This is a very prominent mill, and it’d be just disastrous to see the full closed and sent offshore.”
Mr Chipman says the mill is magnificence-of-the-art, and is capable of turning a profit.
“The FEA manufactory is at the cutting edge of sawing our plantation based resort, and there is much to be gained and improved with that sawing technology and that drying technology,” he before-mentioned.
Last month the receivers laid off 28 staff from FEA’s intercept offices in Lismore, Launceston and Hobart.
The receivers will not judge who or how many interested buyers there are, or when a demand would be announced.