Kaingaroa Forest

Kaingaroa Forest is owned by Kaingaroa Timberlands, which is a partnership of investors.

Kaingaroa Forest is managed by Timberlands Limited, an independent forest management company who acts on behalf of Kaingaroa Timberlands.

The first plantings were at Waiotapu in the early 1900s and much of the total 189,000 ha forest is now growing its third crop of trees. The majority of the forest is on land leased from the Crown and local iwi.

The Kaingaroa Forest makes up the bulk of Kaingaroa Timberlands’ assets. Other assets include a log processing plant at Kaingaroa, a log yard at Murupara and a nursery at Te Ngae, Rotorua.

The Kaingaroa Log Processing Plant is sited in the centre of the Kaingaroa Forest and converts whole-tree stems into logs, using sophisticated scanning and optimising technology.

Kaingaroa Forest is recognised around the world as an intensively tended forest that produces high quality logs. The harvest is approximately 1,500,000 m³ of radiata pine, with smaller volumes of Douglas fir and other pines.

Products include high value pruned logs used for appearance purposes; structural logs used for building and construction; industrial and utility logs used for packaging and remanufacturing; and pulp logs and residues used for pulp and paper products.

Kaingaroa Timberlands is a major supplier to the New Zealand wood processing industry in the Central North Island, as well as supplying logs for export to markets in Japan, Korea, China, India and other Pacific Rim countries.

Kaingaroa Forest is located between Rotorua and Taupo on the Volcanic Plateau of New Zealand’s central North Island. It is well served by road and rail and two deep-water export ports at Tauranga and Napier.