Our Environmental Story

We’re proud to play a vital role in harnessing the full potential of commercially-grown pine trees in New Zealand. Each month we process on average 1000 – 1200 tonnes of Crude Tall Oil and 400 tonnes of Crude Sulphate Turpentine that we primarily receive from Tokoroa and Kawerau’s pulp and paper mills. We are then able to distil and process approximately 99% of that raw product, with less than 1% going to waste.

Sustainability underpins everything we do. We use some of the pitch that we extract from Crude Tall Oil and other residual material from crude turpentine to fuel our manufacturing site at Mount Maunganui, heating our hot oil to 350°C and turning water into steam so our various products can be separated out and distilled. We only rely on a small amount of natural gas for our remaining heating needs and our site is largely self-sufficient.

The primary raw materials we work with are natural chemical compounds that are sourced from renewable pine tree plantations.

We pride ourselves on providing a safe workplace and looking after the health and wellbeing of our staff, environment and surrounding community.