About FibreSkills

Building skilled, sustainable, and future-ready workforces across Australia’s fibre industries.

For many years, ForestWorks has proudly supported Australia’s forestry, timber, furnishing, and textile industries through industry leadership, workforce development, training advisory services, and strong partnerships across employers, unions, government, training providers, and workers. 
As our industries have evolved, so too has the organisation behind this work. 

We are proud to introduce FibreSkills Australia, a new organisational identity that better reflects the full breadth of the fibre industries we represent and the connected supply chains that underpin Australia’s future manufacturing and sustainability capability.  

While our organisation’s name has recently changed, our specialist industry divisions remain unchanged and continue to sit at the centre of our work. 

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While our organisational name has changed, our purpose and industry focus remains the same. 

We will continue to: 

  • Support workforce development across all sectors 
  • Deliver high-quality training advisory services 
  • Collaborate with employers, unions, governments, and training providers 
  • Support nationally recognised training and qualifications 
  • Strengthen workforce pathways and emerging skills capability 
  • Promote innovation, sustainability, and manufacturing capability 
  • Maintain dedicated engagement through ForestWorks, FurnishingWorks and TextileWorks 

As our industries have evolved, so too has the organisation behind this work. 

A Stronger Collective Identity 

By bringing our divisions together under FibreSkills Australia, we can better represent the complete fibre value chain and strengthen collaboration across industries that increasingly share workforce challenges, technologies, sustainability priorities, and manufacturing opportunities. 

This new identity positions us to: 

  • Support future industry transformation 
  • Strengthen national workforce capability 
  • Respond to emerging skills needs 
  • Encourage stronger cross-sector collaboration 
  • Promote sustainable and future-ready industries 

At the same time, our divisions will continue delivering focused leadership and sector-specific support for the industries they represent. 

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Introducing FibreSkills Australia
One organisation. Three industries. A shared purpose. Evolving with our industries.