Our Aspirations
Our commitment is to operate a financially successful business in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner.
Company Overview
SPBL is a producer of forestry and agricultural products from company-owned land located in Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. The forests are predominantly Radiata pine, with substantial areas of Douglas fir mainly in the Canterbury foothills. Land converted from forest plantations on the plains to farmland is being farmed by SPBL. The Te Oka Bay Farm and Flagpole Farm and Forestry properties were sold recently.
Currently, the company's forest products are sold on the domestic and international timber markets. The company produces mill logs (including export logs), chip logs, firewood logs, post and poles. SPBL's plantation forests have the potential to provide a sustainable supply of logs for processing at around 150,000 cubic metres annually.
SPBL achieved Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification in 2003 and is in the process of gaining FSC status under the PF Olsen Group Scheme
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Company Facts and Figures
SPBL is a producer of forestry and agricultural products from company-owned land , with a plantation forest estate of 6,600 hectares and around 1,765 of farm land.
The company was formed in 1911 but our antecedents go back to 1879.
Our plantations are diversified across three locations: the Canterbury Plains, the Canterbury foothills and the coastal belt north of the region's major city, Christchurch. Our total area of freehold and leased land is 8365 hectares (31 March 2010).
Our logging operations produced a harvest of 254,685 tonnes of wood in the year ended 30 June 2008 including third party wood.
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