WA Plantation Resources Pty Ltd (WAPRES) was formed by Marubeni Corporation to be the holding company for the woodchip and plantation business that it bought from Wesfarmers Ltd in September 2000.
WAPRES has a large and secure share of the wood fibre industry in Western Australia.
Exports around one million tonnes of woodchips to Japan and China and manages thousands of hectares of blue gum plantations across the Southwest and Great Southern regions of Western Australia.
Started to export biomass woodchips for fuel in 2017.
Provides the service for 3rd party (Grain loading, Plantation management, and Nursery).
Works with the locals and works for the communities.
Provides solutions for the social challenges.
Seeking business models that add high values to wood.
Marusumi Whangarei Co Ltd (MWC)
Established: July 1995
51% owned by Marusumi Paper Company Limited & 49% by Marubeni.
Procure logs and sawmill residual woodchips to produce pulp grade woodchips.
Exported excess of 5million GMT of Radiata Pine woodchips to Japan via Marubeni.
