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The company also produces chipboard.
Additional products produced by Montigny include flooring.
Loading one of the company’ s( more than) 100 trucks.
Expanding their reach beyond timber to utilise each part of the tree, Montigny goes as far as extracting essential oils from the leaves, resulting in over 4 000l of pure Eucalyptus oil a month from three species: Eucalyptus Smithii, Eucalyptus Radiata and Eucalyptus Davis. Additionally, in the past year Montigny launched a resin tapping value-stream to utilise crude rosin extruded by pine trees.
Montigny has recently expanded operations into Mozambique, setting up shop at an ideal location at the Maputo Port. The strategic acquisition, now established as Somacel Mozambique, includes a wood-chipping and export facility located at the Maputo harbour. The expansion opens doors to new trading opportunities and direct export market access from a closer port than was previously operated through.
Montigny’ s appetite for the extraordinary extends to their approach to fire risk mitigation, which their CEO implemented by hiring Arno Pienaar, a South African ex-special forces veteran.“ In South Africa, military disciplines are applied to a forestry grid. Our system, on the other hand, applies forestry and fire fighting to a military grid.
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