Coffs Harbour Hardwoods has grown over the years from Ray McCarthy and a few sons to now employing over 100 staff. We are one of the biggest employers in the Coffs Coast region and also a proud supporter of many charities, sporting clubs and other organisations. As a business we feel a responsibility to help out where we can and will continue to do so for many years to come.
Coffs Harbour Hardwoods is a family owned and operated company. The McCarthy family have been supplying timber products nationally and internationally since it was established by timber merchant and world champion axemen Ray McCarthy since 1961.
Ray McCarthy was part of a long line of the McCarthy’s that were heavily involved in timber as far back as the 1850’s when pioneering and cedar getting was a mainstay of many north coast families. Ray was a timber agent who was mainly shipping timber across the Tasman for the New Zealand timber trade, when things started slowing down it was evident that he needed to find new markets and in 1961 Coffs Harbour Hardwoods was formed to concentrate more on the domestic market.
As the timber industry has restructured over recent decades, Coffs Harbour Hardwoods has won the respect of Government and industry and today remains one of the few companies to operate with formal timber supply agreements from Forests NSW.
During the 1990s the company embarked on a major investment in the value adding of timber products for the flooring industry and today we are one of the most respected in the industry for quality and service.
At Coffs Harbour Hardwoods we take our environmental responsibility very seriously, we recognise our responsibility to meet community expectations and are committed to continual improvement in environmental performance.
Our environment, health and safety standards have been scrutinised to assess the level of conformance, this has enabled us to provide a base to improve environmental practices and procedures that can allow us to continue the principles of sustainable development, we recognise our responsibility to meet community expectations and we are committed to the continuous improvement of our environmental performance.