DT King Profile

D. T. KING & Co. LTD - A Business profile

	D.T. King & Co. Ltd. is a privately owned company established in 1938. The company is based at Pukemaori in Western Southland.
	The company is primarily involved in road transport operations and now also heavily involved in the Forest Industry in the operations of log cartage and log harvesting.
	Our involvement in the forest industry began in the late 1970’s when we were contracted to the local wood chipping company “South Wood Export Ltd.” to cart logs to its mill at Awarua organizing and transporting over 150,000 tonnes per annum at its peak.
	This work continued until the chip mill scaled down its operation in line with the diminishing resource available, around the late 1980’s, and it was about this time we became the primary log cartage contractor for “Rayonier New Zealand”, organizing and transporting up to 200,000 tonnes per annum.
	D.T. King in recent times has emerged as a major player in the local forest harvesting/log cartage/log marketing fields and together D.T. King has the expertise, knowledge, financial backing, and equipment to cope with any situation that may arise.

We operate a fleet of over 100 trucks of which more than one third is involved with the Forest industry. We have trucks associated with log cartage, road construction, and wood chip cartage based at Invercargill and the rural Southland towns of Wyndham, Otautau, Tuatapere and Pukemaori.

In addition we operate up to eleven forest harvesting crews undertaking both ground based and cable based (hauler) operations in both exotic pine and Eucalyptus. These crews harvest our own wood as well as that for other customers including Farmers.

Since late 1995 we have been actively involved in the tendering for forest blocks put up for sale by the Forest owners “Rayonier New Zealand.” To date we have been successful in securing forest blocks for marketing to both the export and domestic markets through our marketing division “Log Marketing New Zealand.”

We have the capability to provide a complete “walk in walk out”, service and the ability to source wood for the various local industry plants.

I can assure that our Company is well placed to give a good and complete service in the fields of road transport, forest harvesting, log cartage, and log supply.

Attached is a brief on the dimensions of our Forestry operations.

Paul Balneaves

General Manager. Phone 0800 225 899

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SAFETY AND TRAINING.

The Company fully recognises from its own experience the benefits of training in respect to achieving crew stability, creating a safer workplace, achieving greater productivity, manufacturing a better quality product, all of which is a product of necessity by virtue of the tendering system.

The Company operates under the strict safety guidelines and conditions set down by Rayonier New Zealand. Naturally this discipline is practised across all of our forestry operations at all times both within and outside of the Rayonier estate

Crew leaders are responsible for the entire management of their crew including safety, training, log making, machinery maintenance and overall quality control.

Company policy is to ensure all harvesting employees obtain the industry recognised general requirements and first aid, and encourage progression by assisting them towards gaining further modules.

HARVESTING CAPACITY.

We currently have the capacity to harvest in excess of 350,000 m3 per annum operating nine crews comprising the following makeup:

· 4 Cable hauler crews (Madill, Thunderbird, BE 60)

· 5 Ground based skidder (contract)

· 1 Ground based mechanical harvester/Forwarder (small wood)

· 3 Ground based Mechanical harvester /Forwarder (hardwoods)

LOG TRANSPORTATION.

We currently operate 34 log cartage units rigged as below:

· 2 self-loaders, one with load cells.

· 3 cage units designed to carry short billet wood

· 29 general log carriers of various configurations to meet a variety of situations.

ROAD & LANDING CONSTRUCTION.

The company is actively involved in the construction and maintenance of forestry roads. As such we operate a road construction unit with the following machinery dedicated to this task: Grader, Excavator, and dedicated metal trucks. We hire in extra capacity where and when required.

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS.

We are an environmentally conscious company, not only meeting but often exceeding the expectations of landowners and environmental agencies. It would be fair to say that our environmental awareness tends to stem from this involvement. In the year 2000 one of our contractors won a local environmental award for a harvesting operation.