MACDIRECT BLOG

This year marks a significant milestone for MacDirect Sawmill – 30 years of supplying macrocarpa and cypress weatherboard to builders, architects and homeowners across New Zealand. From humble beginnings in the early 1990s, MacDirect set out with a simple goal: to provide a consistent, high-quality supply of macrocarpa timber for building. Three decades later, that commitment remains unchanged. Our team continues to specialise in the milling, grading and supply of premium mac

Over 30 Years of Experience in the Timber Industry MacDirect has been supplying cypress and macrocarpa timber to the New Zealand market for over 30 years. Led by our fearless leader, Murray Grant, we have supplied timber to thousands of projects nationwide. Our reach extends beyond New Zealand; we have even sent timber to the Pacific Islands and Australia. With three decades of experience, we understand the unique qualities of cypress and macrocarpa timber, especially in New

Murray looking over a plantation Winter has come again with mud, rain, not to mention economic and world turmoil.... Is it all doom and...

Murray Grant -Founder and Director of MacDirect Another year goes by and MacDirect are loaded with plantation logs that will keep us busy...

Grading timber to New Zealand standards is a fine art, let alone grading macrocarpa cypress timbers. A lot has changed in our business...

Many in NZ think Cypress (macrocarpa/lusitanica) has only recently been extensively used in NZ building. Macrocarpa (mac) has actually...

We get asked all the time to share how we grade mac building grade timber. In part because there are some significant differences to...

An Intro from me: Scott Kelso, GM MacDirect Inspired by Murray's musings, I thought I would share a little bit about me and my time with...

Just a quick introduction...... Getting into sawmilling in 1993 I saw the market for a well graded consistent supply of macrocarpa...