Innovatek started in 1998 as a technology transfer event management company and has well over two decades within the industry.

A large part of the initial business has been in running the Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) and an extensive series of technical programmes for forestry and wood products companies. Over 500 programmes throughout New Zealand and Australia have been run to date. These provide an independent forum for local companies to evaluate new technologies.

FIEA is well established as a leading provider of technology transfer services for forest products companies throughout Australasia. It has very strong linkages and partnership arrangements with most major technology providers, equipment suppliers, research institutions and industry associations throughout the region.

Innovatek has since run additional technology transfer events into a number of primary sectors throughout Australasia and, in more recent times, Canada and USA.

Innovatek also publishes the forestry industry’s leading e-newsletter, Friday Offcuts. Starting back in 2005, Friday Offcuts quickly became the leading source of weekly news and technologies for the forestry industry. This enabled the launch of Friday Offcut’s sister publication, WoodWeek (now finished). Both e-newsletters have gone on to lead their particular niches and provide a successful platform for others to utilise the system within their own sectors.