Greenheart Group () is a listed multi-national

forestry company Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidder, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or trunk (botany), logs onto logging truck, trucks or flatcar#Skeleton car, ...

based in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. The company owns 13,000 hectares of

softwood file:Pinus sylvestris wood ray section 1 beentree.jpg, Scots Pine, a typical and well-known softwood Softwood is wood from gymnosperm trees such as conifers. The term is opposed to hardwood, which is the wood from angiosperm trees. The main diff ...

plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

forest in

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

and 322,000 hectares of concessions and harvesting rights in

Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...

. Greenheart sells softwood logs to China, India, South Korea and also domestically in New Zealand. The company also sells

hardwood Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from ...

lumber Lumber is wood that has been processed into dimensional lumber, including beams and planks or boards, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, wi ...

, and various

wood product Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin tha ...

s to China and European countries.

New Zealand Radiata Pine Plantation

Greenheart Group operates a softwood plantation forest business in New Zealand with

radiata pine ''Pinus radiata'' ( syn. ''Pinus insignis''), the Monterey pine, insignis pine or radiata pine, is a species of pine native to the Central Coast of California and Mexico (Guadalupe Island and Cedros island). It is an evergreen conifer in the fa ...

as main its main commercial species. The company exports its radiata pine logs to countries such as China, India, Korea and Japan.

Suriname Natural Forest Concession

Greenheart Group operates a hardwood business in Suriname. The company practices sustainable forest harvesting and has two large scale sawmills to produce lumber for sales to Europe and Asia. The company is also building a bioenergy plant to convert timber waste into clean energy.

Company Development

:2010 - Official branding and establishment :2011 - Acquisition of a 13,000 hectare New Zealand plantation forest :2012 - Commissioning of new sawmill and signed agreement to construct bioenergy plant in Suriname

Sustainable Forest Management

Greenheart Group currently has

Forest Stewardship Council The Forest Stewardship Council A. C. (FSC) is an international non-profit, multistakeholder organization established in 1993 that promotes responsible management of the world's forests via timber certification. It is an example of a market-ba ...

(FSC®) controlled wood status in West Suriname forest concession and full

(FSC®) certification for its Central Suriname forest concession. The company practices

sustainable forest management Sustainable forest management (SFM) is the management of forests according to the principles of sustainable development. Sustainable forest management has to keep the balance between three main pillars: ecological, economic and socio-cultural. ...

and

silviculture Silviculture is the practice of controlling the growth, composition/structure, and quality of forests to meet values and needs, specifically timber production. The name comes from the Latin ('forest') and ('growing'). The study of forests and wo ...

systems to ensure a systematic pruning which allows a faster natural regeneration of trees.

Annual financial information (2010-2012)

Greenheart's annual revenue has increased 29 times since formal branding and establishment in 2010.

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External links

Official Website
Forest products companies of Hong Kong Renewable resource companies established in 2010 2010 establishments in Hong Kong Chinese companies established in 2010