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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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