The core of our business
We are industry leaders combining on-the-ground expertise with advanced forest management practices, using tools like drones, complex mapping systems, and up-to-the-minute geospatial information you can access in the field.
We are very involved at every stage of the lifecycle of our plantation forests, from research and innovation that goes into improving productivity and enhancing sustainability over time, all the way through to harvest and haulage to our customers to create the timber products Australians love.
Industry best-practice forest management
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Research &
We invest in a mix of short, medium and long-term research to increase plantation productivity and value, enhance sustainability and minimise risk.
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Nursery & seed
We collect more than a tonne of seed a year from our 15 seed orchards, strategically positioned throughout Queensland to produce 10 million seedlings each year.
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It takes many years, and lots of patience, to grow a forest. Depending on the species, we nurture and protect the trees for 25 to 50 before harvest delivers a myriad of wood products to you.
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Pest
We use an integrated approach to manage plant and animal pests based on complementary techniques based on a good understanding of pest life cycles and effects on plantations.
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Fire
We consider wildfires to be one of our greatest threats. In response, we invest heavily in control measures to protect our staff, neighbours, local communities and our plantations from wildfire.
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Using state-of-the-art technology, we have the capacity to sustainably harvest around 2 million cubic metres of plantation timber from our forests every year.
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Road
Our road networks connect our industry. They provide a safe path to transport timber to our customer mills and access to our plantations for firefighting and forest operations.
A continuous cycle of growth
It's the continuous cycle of growth that makes plantation forest management so sustainable. We never harvest more than we can grow, planting up to 10 million seedlings while only harvesting 2-3% of our plantations each year ensures that we're in a perpetual cycle of growth while meeting customer demand to turn our timber into the wood products you love. That's why wood has gained its reputation as the ultimate renewable.
