AFORA is an alliance established by the University of the Sunshine Coast with Australian forest industry stakeholders to continue the collaborative forest supply chain research established by the CRC for Forestry. The objectives of AFORA are to deliver a collaborative applied research development implementation program to improve:
- the understanding, management and control of forest operational costs for existing, evolving and new harvest systems;
- the planning and management of value recovery within harvest operations; and
- the application of optimisation to supply chain efficiency planning and management.
Working with the alliance participants AFORA has, and continues to develop, practical tools and industry reports.
- our industry reports
- our industry tools
AFORA Participants
- Albany Plantation Export Company
- Australian Blue Gum Plantations Pty Ltd
- Forest Products Commission Western Australia
- Forestry South Australia
- Forest Corporations New South Wales
- Forico Pty Ltd
- Green Triangle Forest Products
- Hancock Victorian Plantations Pty Ltd
- Norske Skog Paper Mills (Australasia) Pty Ltd
- Private Forests Tasmania
- PF Olsen (Aus) Pty Ltd
- SFM Environmental Solutions Pty Ltd
- South East Fibre Exports Pty Ltd
- Tasmanian Forest Contractors Association
- VICForests
- WA Plantation Resources (WAPRES)
- Westgen
- Sustainable Timber Tasmania
- OneFortyOne
- HQPlantations
- Timber Queensland
- Midway Ltd
Contact a member of the AFORA team
Director
Professor Mark Brown
Room: IC-G.47
Tel: +61 7 5459 4483
Email: mbrown2@usc.edu.au
Researcher — Transport logistics and machine evaluation
Dr Mauricio Acuna
Tel: +61 3 6226 7927
Email: macuna@usc.edu.au
Researcher — Machine productivity and biomass harvesting
Dr Mohammad Ghaffariyan
Tel: +61 7 5456 5447
Email: mghaffar@usc.edu.au
Senior Research Assistant — Harvest and haulage systems
Mr Rick Mitchell
Email: rmitchel@usc.edu.au
Researcher — Onboard systems and operations management
Mr Martin Strandgard
Tel: +61 3 9250 6872
Email: mstrandga@usc.edu.au