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About Tenco
Tenco is one
of New Zealand’s largest exporters of forest products. We have built to
this position since 1991 when the company was set up to export lumber
to growing Asian export markets. Experience and reputation count;
from small beginnings Tenco has become the largest independent exporter
of New Zealand lumber and New Zealand’s 4th largest log exporter.
Tenco has a regular shipping program of their own log vessels and in
combination with these and other ships currently calls at 7 New
Zealand ports (5 North Island and 2 South Island).
Tenco buys standing forests. Tenco currently has a number of
forests which they purchased at harvestable age to log over a number of
years for export and domestic markets. Tenco also regularly buys
smaller tracts of forest to harvest immediately. Tenco is
interested in broadening the base of owners from whom it
purchases forests and stands of trees. A deal with Tenco is a
certain transaction. The owner and Tenco will agree on a value of
the tree crop and then Tenco will pay this amount to the owner either
in a lump sum amount or on rate per volume unit out-turn from the
forest depending on the nature of the tree crop.
Tenco knows there are a lot of farmers who have trees that are close
or ready to harvest and will be asking themselves how they should
proceed with the sale of their trees. For some farmers the kind
of certain transaction with money in the bank could well be appealing.
Tenco is actively interested in buying harvestable forests or trees
from areas including and north of Wanganui and in Hawke’s Bay (except
the Gisborne and East Coast districts).
If you own a forest in this area
(16 years and older)
and are ready to enter into this kind
of agreement Tenco is interested to develop something with you.
Please contact: Josh.Bannan@tenco.co.nz
Work: +64 7 357 5356 Mobile: +64 21 921 595 www.tenco.co.nz |
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From the President
Conference 2010 Invercargill
Planning is well advanced for next year's conference in Invercargill. The conference committee has put together a varied and interesting programme for us. They are a little concerned that the effect of an increase in the cost of registration, Invercargill's isolation and current economic downturn will deter conference goers. Help them out by registering now using the form in this
Tree Grower.
Emissions Trading Scheme
The flagship of the government initiatives to address climate change is its Emissions Trading Scheme or ETS. It is proving to be a difficult birth with a number of false starts and delays.
When the ETS was originally designed, it was thought the only way it could work was to have all industries and all gases in it. Now, as part of the political process in Wellington, we are seeing changes to the original design which have attracted considerable comment over the last few months. These changes are more about oiling squeaky wheels than designing an ETS that has the best chance of changing behaviour relating to the use of fossil fuels.
From a farm forester and forester's perspective this is a very disappointing result and we can only hope that logic and rational thought prevails. The NZFFA will continue to take a very active role in promoting and explaining the ETS to members as and when more of the detail is clarified.
Environmental certification
The NZFFA, with funding from FIDA, recently completed a study on the benefits of environmental certification for it's members and the feasibility of a NZFFA Group Certification Scheme. The report of the study is available at www.nzffa.org.nz.
The study concluded that there is a strong case for environmental certification for the small forest grower and recommended that the NZFFA evaluate the FSC small and low intensity managed forest initiative (SLIMF). To this end, the NZFFA has obtained SFF funding to evaluate a SLIMF initiative to be managed at the existing branch level - this will be undertaken in conjunction with the South Otago Branch.
Currently all New Zealand certified forests are assessed against an international standard as there is no agreed New Zealand standard. There was a very serious attempt to negotiate a national standard from 2000/03. However there was no agreement forthcoming and it has been on hold for the last five years.
Over the last few months there has been considerable work going on behind the scenes, mostly by the Forest Owners Association, to restart the negotiation of a national standard. The first meeting is scheduled for 24 November and the expectation amongst all the participants is that a successful national standard will be negotiated.
Coast Redwood
The improving profile of coast redwood is one of the few positive forestry stories of the last few years. The species has had a chequered history in New Zealand having been widely planted before 1940, although most of these plantings failed. There are many successful remnant plantings of which the Redwood Grove in Rotorua is one. Some of these remnants have been pivotal in not only demonstrating the potential of the species in New Zealand, but also rekindling enthusiasm for it.
There has been many reasons postulated as to why those early plantings may have failed. They include poor seed sources and in-breeding, lack of mycorrhiza, poor site selection and lack of weed control. Today, the species is not considered as being any more difficult to plant, grow and manage than cypresses or eucalypts.
There are still a lot of questions to be answered, but it is proving to be a species that planted on the right site is relatively straight forward to grow. Redwood articles in the main feature of this issue of the
Tree Grower build on the theme that redwood is a versatile species and one that produces high value forest products. It is a species that will feature increasingly in farm foresters' future planting plans and will generate considerable debate. This can only be good for farm forestry.
Patrick Milne,
President.
