Providing advice
on forest
management,
quality control and
environmental
issues

Gunns maintains its own research facility, which carries out testing and research into a range of issues relating to the production of high quality fibre from natural and plantation forests, as well as providing advice on forest management, quality control and environmental issues. The company's laboratory has very high technical standards, being the only one working in this particular field approved by NATA (National Association of Testing Authorities Australia).

In addition Gunns has been actively involved in Cooperative Research Centres (CRC's) since they were set up by the Federal Government in the 1980's. Gunns is currently a core member of the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Production Forestry headquartered in Hobart. Gunns supports the CRC with annual cash contributions and the provision of in-kind support, including providing land for research trials and access for CRC researchers to Gunns' own tree breeding and nutritional trials. The CRC has provided training for many young Australian scientists and significantly contributed to the scientific knowledge about Eucalypts. Technology developed by the CRC is applied to maintaining the sustainability of Gunns' forestry operations.