Nelson Pine Industries

Nelson Pine Industries was established in 1984, as a manufacturing facility to add value to the Nelson region's renewable resource of Pinus radiata plantation forests. Production of Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF) started in 1986, with a second line commissioned in 1991. The third line, commissioned in 1997, made Nelson Pine Industries one of the largest single site producers of Medium Density Fibreboard in the world.

In May 2000 the company announced plans for a NZ$80 million LVL plant at its Richmond site. Production from the veneer plant where logs are lathe peeled began in November 2001, followed in March 2002 with commissioning of the LVL plant where veneers are laminated by hot pressing into a beam form.