Frame and Truss Merge with Wood Processors

Frame and Truss Merge with Wood Processors

Tuesday 14th April 2009

For Immediate Release

The Frame and Truss Manufacturers Association (FTMA) are to merge with the Wood Processors Association (WPA).  In making this announcement chairman of the FTMA executive, Ian McGregorsays, “It is the right time to merge two organisations who undertake similar activities on behalf of their members and it is a logical step toward improving services to both parties’ members by improving efficiency.”

Frame and Truss Manufacturers produce the wall and roofing components for the housing and light commercial sector.  FTMA membership includes fabricators as well as those organisations such as nail plate manufacturers, sawmillers and merchants who service the fabricators.

Wood Processors Association chief executive, Peter Bodekersays, “WPA represents sawmillers producing in excess of eighty percent of New Zealand’s structural lumber, and as the vast majority of structural lumber is processed through frame and truss plants, that a merger of the activities of both organisations is a logical step.”

Many of the issues facing sawmillers such as product quality, the dissemination of technical information, changes to regulations and occupational health and safety also affect frame and truss plant operators.  Additionally, through the NZ Wood programme, improving quality standards of the finished product is a priority for the entire industry.  The merging of the two organisations will assist in enabling this to occur.

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