RON GOLDSCHLAGER
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Ron is a qualified chemical engineer, driven by an intense ethical compass and an intrinsic need to improve the world. His family have worked in the timber industry for more than seven consecutive generations.
Ron continues in this tradition, innovating and adapting his businesses within the ever-changing marketplace. Ron has diversified his Hermal Group into the new world economy of sustainability. Initially inspired by the political environment of protecting & conserving old-growth hardwood forests from commercial harvesting, Ron sought to create a new industry based upon sustainable Eucalyptus plantations.
Recognising that there was a global shortage of timber and that Australia was importing vast volumes of building materials and exporting vast volumes of plantation Eucalyptus hardwood logs & woodchips, he could see a problem that needed to be solved.
As timber has risen to the fore as a solution in the fight to tackle climate change, offsetting its enormous carbon storage benefits by freighting it across the planet seemed absurd. Turning his attention to our country’s vast hardwood plantation resources, he has done what none other has achieved before him.
Ron has turned a forest based raw material being sold as woodchips into the world’s first plantation hardwood CLT.
Ron called this CLTP, the ‘P’ emphasizing the “New Supply Line” approach from plantations to projects by and for the people.
CLTP is not just about engineered timber. It is a concept with an appetite for smarter solutions, founded to pursue the cutting edge of the built environment and to make dreams into realities.
CLTP is the realisation of Ron’s vision to facilitate Australia becoming self-sufficient in timber production and to minimise waste in the timber supply chain. To this end, he is also creating a Bioenergy plant that can generate renewable electricity & heat from the biomass waste of the forest industries.
