A report in today's Gisborne Herald describes how a joint venture company known as WET Gisborne Ltd (WLG) has been formed between Wood Engineering Technology Ltd and the Eastland Community Trust (ECT) resulting in a wood processing plant being built which will manufacture a new style of building frame.
This first ever plant to commercially manufacture the OEL™ framing for builders anywhere in the world is located at the former Prime sawmill site, near Matawhero.
The new technology, developed and proven by Wood Engineering Technology Ltd, allows any logs — even one metre-long pieces can be used — to be dismantled and then reassembled into uniformly strong and straight structural OEL™ framing in an internationally-patented, state-of-the-art automated process.