Local contactor Brett Haggett has an agreement with KIPT to undertake thinning at selected locations in its pine forests and complete post peeling and treatment operations at the mill.
KIPT recently applied successfully to the Environment Protection Authority for a wood preservation licence, allowing the mill’s treatment equipment to be reactivated. The fence posts are being treated with CCA (copper chrome arsenate). The licence also permits the use of creosote as a preservative agent.
“A post-peeling and preservation capacity will be important as thinning operations proceed and, when harvesting proper begins, to make use of offcuts as pine logs are cut to standard sizes for export or processing into lumber, ” Paul McKenzie, KIPT chairman, said.
“We plan to safely burn waste at our Kelly West property on Bark Hut Road and re-plant pine there after weed control in the autumn of 2016,” he said.
Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers is Australia’s only listed timber company. It manages a wholly-owned portfolio of hardwood and softwood forestry plantation and of cleared and uncleared agricultural land on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
