The Briggs Group is a fourth generation family owned
Australian company which has been actively involved in milling and marketing of
timber products for over 110 years.
The
Briggs Group story began in 1908 when George Largie Briggs built the first saw
mill at Dorrigo, NSW. This was replaced by another mill built at nearby Megan
in 1915, with subsequent expansion adding a furniture and joinery factory. The
company then moved and established a saw mill and village at Briggsvale in
1923. Veneer milling started in 1933.
In
1972, extensive plant modernisation was undertaken. Around this time, the company pioneered the
peeling and marketing of regrowth eucalypt veneers and in 1983 a plywood
factory was added.
Sawmilling ceased in 1993, with the business increasingly focusing
on sourcing and supplying quality veneers to the interior fit-out and specialty
markets, supplying these from our Seven Hills (NSW) warehouse and factory. By
2000 the Briggs Veneers business had started to be strongly driven by
architectural specification.
In 2006, outgrowing our Seven Hills site we moved to
larger premises at Wetherill Park NSW. In the years around 2010 Briggs added
reconstituted veneer, dyed veneers, prefinished veneer laminates and fire
retardant MDF to our product range.
By
2020 Briggs employed 2 full time architectural marketing representatives and
had added prefinished veneer panels and HPL to our
product offering. Today, Briggs Veneers offers more than 200 different
types of quality veneer and panel products sourced from sustainably managed
forests.