Pentarch Forestry will acquire Queensland‑based Superior Wood’s business and assets, with the transaction to take effect on January 30, 2026. Wood Central can reveal that Superior Wood’s customers were notified yesterday, with the business to continue operating as Superior Wood but now owned and managed by the Pentarch Forestry Group.
Addressed in a letter to its customers, Superior Wood’s Kerryn Potts thanked partners for their long‑standing support before adding that the company “greatly valued” the relationships built over generations and that customer loyalty had been “integral to the success and growth of Superior Wood.” Potts said the transition marked a significant moment for the business but stressed that its values, product quality and customer focus would remain unchanged.
One of Queensland’s largest producers of appearance‑grade Araucaria products and a leading specialist in clear‑grade mouldings and joinery, Superior Wood is tied to the Finlayson Group in Brisbane and can trace its origins back four generations to 1875.
Its signature product, plantation‑grown Araucaria, is a native Australian softwood prized for its uniform colour, fine grain and high strength‑to‑weight performance. Used for generations in Australian homes, it is suited to panelling, mouldings, joinery, flooring, battens, framing and structural grades, including MGP10 and MGP12. Superior Wood’s product range spans clear‑sawn timber, finger‑jointed mouldings, cuttings grades, kiln‑dried feature grades, panelling, flooring and dressed clear components supplied to domestic and export markets.
Superior Wood operates two major facilities in the Mary Valley, 150 km north of Brisbane, which it acquired from the Hyne Group in 2013. The Imbil mill processes around 225,000 cubic metres of Araucaria logs each year, supplying structural and appearance‑grade timber and feeding the nearby Melawondi remanufacturing plant. Melawondi houses the company’s low‑temperature drying systems, high‑technology Super Cutline and remanufacturing operations, and is also home to Superior Wood Mouldings, which produces high‑quality profiles and dressed boards for domestic and commercial building markets.
The acquisition comes as Australia’s mouldings and appearance‑grade timber sector faces sustained pressure from imports. Overseas producers — especially from Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand) and, increasingly, from South America (Brazil and Chile) — now supply a growing share of local demand. Imported mouldings and appearance‑grade softwoods have expanded steadily over the past decade, driven by competitive offshore production costs and the ability of overseas mills to supply large volumes of clear‑grade product.
Speaking to Wood Central today, an engineered wood products expert said imported mouldings have steadily increased their market presence, before adding that Pentarch’s new involvement in the industry “will hopefully give the local industry far more marketing firepower to compete with imports.”
