Sunday August 1, 2004

Macspred Australia finalist in DuPont Innovation Awards

Macspred were chosen as finalists of the 2004 Dupont & New Zealand Innovation Awards under the Agricultural and Marketing category.

The DuPont Innovation Awards Program is an independently judged competition. The Awards are a first for DuPont and are designed to recognize innovation and advances in industry, science and agriculture.

In 2002, while reviewing aerial operations with various forestry companies using the Forest Mix WDH product, sales supervisors John Campbell and Mark Frances could see the need for a better delivery system particularly where the customer was using large volumes of the product.

The innovation was to develop a fully enclosed 1000 litre shuttle with a unique inbuilt agitation facility. This can be delivered on site already charged with a pre measured quantity of Forest Mix WDH powder. Water can then be added directly to this shuttle with agitation and then be transferred directly into the contractor

Tuesday December 31, 2002

Forestry on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Kangaroo Island has long been regarded as the best kept secret in Australia as far as tourism goes, but not many people realise that forestry has been gaining momentum on this South Australian Island.

Kangaroo Island is 155 km long by 55 km wide and is the third largest island off the coast of mainland Australia. The rainfall on Kangaroo Island lends itself well to plantation forestry.

Most recently, investment companies have been establishing approx 1000 ha per year of Eucalypt. The long term goal is to increase this to 2000 ha per year. Another part of this long term plan is to recommission a deep water port on the island which was formerly used by CSR for shipping gypsum from the island. This whole project will not only assist with plantation timber but will also assist the local farming community with cheaper freight rates.

Macspred sales staff have been working with the various forestry managers to design more environmentally acceptable weed programs. As a result of this, Macspred products, such as Eucmix