Projects

AFRICA

Integrated Tree Cropping (ITC)

Solid wood processing and marketing options from fast grown eucalypt plantations in South Africa, South America and Australia.

Confidential

Biomass scoping study in Mozambique, Angola and The Congo.

Confidential

Resource assessment in Southern Sudan.

ARGENTINA

Integrated Tree Cropping (ITC)

Solid wood processing and marketing options from fast grown eucalypt plantations in South Africa, South America and Australia.

AUSTRALIA

MBAC has undertaken over 100 projects covering all our Professional Expertise fields in each State for private and public clients. Recent projects include:

• Benchmarking carbon plantation costs (land, establishment, maintenance, verification etc).
• Expert Witness for forestry related conflict resolution.
• Assessment of several thousand ha of blue gum plantations using low altitude oblique aerial photography, ground measurements, condition assessment, stratification, foliar analysis and yield projections.
• Land assessments in the Northern Territory
• Due diligence of Carbon service providers
• Cypress sawlog pricing review
• Due diligence of MIS plantation segment in eastern Australia
• Sale of Forest Plantations Queensland
• High level assessment of several Bio-sequestration Providers for an Eastern Australian gas company
• Advisory services as part of sale process
• Valuation of various Australian forest assets
• Submission to Timber Industry Inquiry
• Advice on discount rates and log prices for MIS company
• Due diligence of hardwood plantation forest estate
• Assessment of select native title lands for afforestation purposes
• Assessment of public forestry organisations potential to supply afforestation services for carbon sequestration
• Carbon sequestration providers due diligence and land related projects
• Due diligence of investment in Managed Investment Scheme secondary markets
• Assessment of Australia’s land suitable for carbon sequestration by state and rainfall
• Sale of Forestry SA
• Major fire assessment claim
• Expert witness (various)
• Carbon verification (Minding the Carbon Store MTCS)

CHINA

Confidential

Due diligence of forest estate. Modelling and advisory services.

Wood Resources International.

Landed wood cost in China. Quarterly reporting, with commentary on supply and demand for softwood and hardwood fibre by the pulp and paper industry.

China’s Forest Industries

Opportunities and Challenges – Forest Resources. Jaakko Pöyry Multi-client report, Joint Principal Author and Project Director. – Published August, 2001.

Asia Pulp and Paper

Valuation of Asia Pulp and Paper’s Chinese plantation estate, involving on-site assessment on Hainan Island and in Guangdong. Team Leader

International Paper

Landed wood cost from eucalypt plantations in Southern China

Hutai (Peoples Daily)

Strategic Plan for expansion of pulp and paper facilities in Shandong Province, China – Project Manager

Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)

Paper presentation to Forestry Policies and Institutions in a Market Economy Asia Region Project covering global wood supply, demand and value, with insights into centrally planned, mixed and free markets.

CSR

Assessment of circa 100,000 hectares of Pinus plantations in South Central China using SPOT Image 1:50,000 Multi-spectral and Panchromatic satellite images and Global Positioning System (GPS). Project involved data capture; image analysis using ER Mapper; polygonisation (vectors) of pixel (raster) data and GIS development using ARCVIEW/2.

Confidential

Advisory work in China as part of a due diligence of a large forest and forest products company in mainland China – December, 2006.

FIJI

Fiji Forest Industries

Preparation of Concession Renewal Proposal and development of a coupe level GIS incorporating harvesting history, ownership, forest type (from satellite imagery) and proximity to infrastructure. Documents and maps at 1:150,000 and 1:50,000, the latter using GPS road data.

Fiji Pine Commission

Pinus caribaea inventory and forest valuation, 42,000 ha.

INDONESIA

Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (APRIL)

Landuse assessment of 7.1 million hectares of land using LANDSAT 7 and SPOT 5 satellite imagery as well as ground assessment. Collection of approximately 1 000 ground control points in several landuse types (plantation, oilpalm, rubber, grasslands etc). Team leader

Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper

Strategic advice for long term woodflow harvesting and transport associated with mill expansion in Indonesia.

North American confidential client

Strategic resource advice assessing opportunities for a major acquisition in Indonesia.

Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (RAPP) APRIL Group

Due Diligence and Information Memorandum based on woodflow to the RAPP Kerinci pulp and paper mill in Sumatra, Indonesia. Team Leader

Confidential client

Project Director for strategic study of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) paper operations.

LAO PDR Transfield and Electricité de France

Forestry works associated with Nam Theun II Dam Feasibility Study. Demarcation of high water level on the ground, yield assessments and wood supply/demand assessments. Team Leader

MALAYSIA

Borneo Pulp and Paper (BPP)

Preparation of report on wood supply and cost of presentation to financial institutions. Project covered all land and volume issues such as customary land, vegetation and terrain classifications and landed wood cost calculations for native and plantation resource for a major pulp mill development project in Sarawak.

MYANMAR

MRT/IPL

Strategic advice and recruitment of foresters.

NEW ZEALAND

Confidential

Due diligence of Carter Holt Harvey softwood sawmilling, panels and distribution operations.

Selwyn Plantation Board Ltd

Pilot GIS and Forest Information System development in the Canterbury Plains region. 1,000 ha (pilot), 13,500 ha (full development). System integrated the forest compartment maps with SPB’s Forest Master database.

Carter Holt Harvey

Assessment of Australian softwood supply and demand to 1997/98 and identification of unsecured wood volumes. Indication of wood cost sensitivity to increasing international interest in Australia’s softwood forests.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Turama Forest Industries

Development of a Geographic Information System to assist in combining inventory data with remotely sensed (LANDSAT) data for the preparation of a feasibility study for ongoing resource utilisation.

PHILIPPINES

APPITA

Conference Paper presentation.

SINGAPORE (FINLAND)

Based in Singapore 2000-2001, undertaking numerous projects (Jaakko Pöyry).

SOLOMON ISLANDS

Turnbull and Partners

Valuation of 330,000 ha of tropical concessions in the Solomon Islands using the net present valuation approach. Involved on-site audit of company operations.

Kolombangara Forest Products (KFPL) Ltd

Forest inventory of 8 500 ha of mixed hardwood plantations to determine long term yields for early start-up study looking at processing options.

SOUTH SUDAN

Citadel Capital

Stretegic advice and land assessments.

SURINAME

Turn Best Industries

Resource assessment of select Suriname natural forest concessions and identification of sustainable utilisation options – Project Director

Confidential Corporation

Prefeasibility study of industrial opportunities in Suriname South America.

USA

North American Corporate

Resource, business and manufacturing white papers on several potential investment arenas, covering forest attributes such as land and forest areas, distribution, ownership, species, age class, productivity, afforestation and reforestation rates, volumes and commitments and costs.

International Paper

International expansion strategy, looking at global wood basket opportunities in North America, South America, Europe and Oceania, providing comparative resource, business and manufacturing environment information.

Plum Creek

Resource and wood supply options for their USA operations, looking at potential markets and landed wood costs and forest ownership options in conjunction with Jaakko Pöyry Consulting Inc.

American Forest and Paper Association

Development of an international database and Geographic Information System using MapInfo. The database contains country specific solid wood products production, imports and exports in US dollars and cubic metres for all years from 1982 to the present.

International Paper

Development of a MapInfo database system to determine international investment opportunities at global, country and regional levels. Several critical value databases, covering resource, manufacturing, infrastructure, politics, social, risk and investment attributed were developed.

UNITED KINGDOM

Integrated Tree Cropping (ITC)

Solid wood processing and marketing options from fast grown eucalypt plantations – Market analysis UK and Europe.

VANUATU

Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB)

Inventory and computer (GIS) systems specialist on Vanuatu Sustainable Yield Project in conjunction with Hassall and Partners and ANUTECH.

VIETNAM

Team Leader, Forest and Forest Industry Economist

Study on the Development Potential of Vietnamese Wood Growing Sector, focusing on five Central Coastal Provinces. Plantation Development, smallholder issues, industries and markets – World Bank and Jaakko Pöyry Development – October 2001.

Scanagri

Prepare World Bank Technical Proposal for the Vietnam Forest Sector Development Project (FSDP) for Smallholder Plantation Forestry and Land Allocation and Management Project submission by Scanagri/Niras (Finland), GFA (Germany) and VAFI (Vietnam) – January 2007

Confidential

due diligence of The Bamboo Factory in Hanoi.

Confidential

Business development - The Bamboo Factory

Confidential

Recruitment of CEO