Our Environment

We take a holistic approach to the environmental management of our business. From the growth and management of our forest estate through to processing and product manufacturing we seek to reduce and eliminate environmental impact.

We always consider ‘whole of forest solutions’ in order to use every part of our forest resource. For example, low value logs and waste sawmill chip are turned into pulp for paper products, while high value logs are sent to our sawmill.

All residual products including sawdust and shavings are returned to Pan Pac to be used as biofuel in their two boilers. This energy is then used to generate high-pressure steam for the co-generation plant and low-pressure bypass steam for kiln drying lumber as well as electricity generation (12 MW capacity).

We also have environmental management policies on waste water management and recycling. Areas of our forests are available for public access with the Eskdale Forest having one of the largest mountain biking facilities in NZ.