Plantation Management – Growing PlantaTions
Entering into a joint venture or leasing arrangement with a plantation management company or purchasing a unit in a managed investment scheme forestry project
The following companies provide a range of services and investment options for becoming a plantation owner and grower:
New Forests
New Forests Pty Limited offers asset management and advisory services in the forestry sector, specializing in sustainable forest management and emerging environmental markets.
Website: www.newforests.com.au
CO2 Australia
The CO2 AUSTRALIA™ Carbon Sequestration Program is a unique program initially concentrated in New South Wales under which the CO2 Group of Companies establishes long term (150 years) mallee environmental plantings on agricultural land. These plantings are permanent dedicated carbon sinks. CO2 Australia measures the plantings to determine the amount of carbon dioxide they have sequestered and then currently uses these measurements to create New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Certificates.
The mallee environmental plantings are integrated into the cropping regimes of the landowner. These belts vary in width and spacing with the design of the plantings on a landowner's property undertaken in full consultation with the landowner.
Website: www.co2australia.com.au
Forest Enterprises Australia
Forest Enterprises Australia Ltd (FEA) is a publicly listed company and a leading forestry and forest products business operating in the agribusiness sector. FEA has been planting and growing trees in hardwood plantations since 1987 and also supplies wood fibre to local and world markets. More recently, the Company has developed a number of innovative timber products to service expanding timber markets.
Website: www.forestenterprise.com
Willmott Forests
Willmott Forests is a quality focused vertically integrated company that plants, manages, harvests, processes, supplies and replants softwood resource for a commercial benefit in a sustainable manner. Willmott Forests has been committed to the establishment of Pinus radiata for over 20 years. It has resisted diversifying into other species and instead has opted to establish itself as a market leader in the proven and recognisable long term softwood plantation industry. Willmott Forests is the largest developer of newly established softwood pine plantations in Australia.
Website: www.willmottforests.com.au
ITC
ITC Limited is Australia's leading integrated forestry company with in excess of 140,000 plantation hectares under management across all Australian states, and is also Australia's largest hardwood timber processor.
Website: www.itclimited.com.au
WA Blue Gum Project
The WA Blue Gum Project offers a timber plantation investment growing Tasmanian Blue Gum which is the major hardwood species grown in Australia for pulp log production.
Website: www.wabluegum.com.au
WA Plantation Resources (WAPRES)
WA Plantation Resources has a large and secure share of the woodfibre industry in Western Australia - it exports around one million tonnes of woodchips to Japan every year and manages thousands of hectares of bluegum plantations across the South West and Great Southern regions.
Website: www.wapres.com.au
