Forests NSW is a public trading enterprise within NSW Department of Primary Industries
Forests NSWFacts and Figures 2011–12
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ISSN 1839-8863
© State of New South Wales through Forests NSW 2012. You may copy, distribute and otherwise freely deal with this publication for any purpose, provided that you attribute Forests NSW as the owner.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this publication is based on knowledge and understanding at the time of writing (November 2012). However, because of advances in knowledge, users are reminded of the need to ensure that information upon which they rely is up to date and to check currency of the information with the appropriate officer of Forests NSW or the user’s independent adviser.
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Cover image: Raw photos: Howard Spencer (main) and Forests NSW Image Library
3Facts and Figures 2011–12
Our organisation 4
Our history 6
Our customers 7
Forests in context 8
Economic benefits 13
Environmental benefits 15
Social benefits 17
Sustainability benefits 19
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Our visionTo be the best and safest commercial forest manager in Australasia.
Our missionTo provide safe and commercially sustainable forest management services to the Government and people of New South Wales and independent investors while increasing the value of their investment.
Forests NSW is the largest manager of native and plantation forests in New South Wales (NSW). We manage more than two million hectares of native and planted forests across NSW to the internationally recognised Australian Forestry Standard (AS 4708:2007) delivering a range of economic, environmental and social benefits to the people of NSW and future generations.
Forests NSW primary focus is sustainable forest management and ensuring the sustained supply of timber to our customers. As a public trading enterprise, this is undertaken within the context of running a profitable business and returning a dividend to the NSW Government.
Forests NSW employs over 700 people throughout NSW. In addition to this, Forests NSW engages more than 100 contract companies employing about 1400 people, primarily in the harvesting and haulage of timber products.
Our operations are distributed across regional NSW and include planting and regeneration, planning and managing timber harvesting and marketing and delivering timber to a wide range of customers located within NSW, across Australia and overseas.
Forests NSW currently harvests more than 2.5 million m3 of sawlogs and around 2 million tonnes of pulpwood from State forests annually, with sales of these products generating almost $300 million a year. The State’s timber industry contributes nearly $1 billion to the NSW economy each year.
Our organisation
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Key financial dataYear ended 30 June 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12Revenue1 $M 294 286 329 327 318Operating profit1 $M 14 (16) 20 34 14EBIT1,2 $M 26 (4) 32 43 23Dividend payable $M 1 0 10 14 5Borrowings $M 169 165 141 132 133Biological assets $M 625 670 662 751 734
Key ratiosReturn on assets % 0.8 (0.9) 1.1 1.8 0.7EBIT 2 margin1 % 8.7 (1.5) 9.7 13.2 7.3Liquidity ratio times 1.6 1.0 1.4 1.0 1.1Debt ratio % 27.8 30.1 42.9 42.1 45.3Interest cover times 2.3 (0.3) 2.6 4.6 2.5
1 Excludes significant items e.g. revaluation impact, impairments and impact on superannuation funds, before taxes.2 EBIT – Earnings before interest and tax
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A log in time1871 – First NSW forest reserves proclaimed to
preserve the timber resources of the colony
1913 – First State forest dedicated – Acacia Creek and Koreelah State Forest No. 1
1916 – Forestry Commission of NSW established by the Forestry Act 1916
1939 – First eucalypt plantations established
1946 – After World War II, the pine plantation program recommenced at an ever increasing rate
1959 – First use of a computer to undertake timber resource assessments
1979 – Forest protests held against logging in rainforest. The NSW Government later gazetted the remaining rainforest in NSW as national park
1993 – Commission began trading under the name State Forests of NSW
1999 – First NSW Regional Forest Agreement or 20-year plan for the sustainable management and conservation of native forests completed
2004 – Organisation established as a public trading enterprise under the new brand name Forests NSW within NSW Department of Primary Industries
2006 – Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management plans published. Forests NSW achieved certification to the Australian Forestry Standard
2012 – Announced that Forests NSW will become a State-owned corporation.
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Our customersArea Major
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Plywood Softwood/Hardwood
Big River Group Plywood
Major sawmillers
Hardwood Boral Timber, Australian Solar Timbers, Blue Ridge Hardwoods, Coffs Harbour Hardwoods, Grants Holdings, Gunnedah Timbers/Baradine Sawmilling, Hurfords Building Supplies, Koppers, J Notaras & Sons, Thora Sawmilling, Newells Creek Sawmilling and SA Relf & Sons
Structural timber; flooring, furniture and joinery timber; plywood products
Softwood Carter Holt Harvey, Highland Pine Products, Hyne Timber, Tarmac, Dongwha, Allied Timber Products
Structural timber
MDF and particleboard
Softwood Borg Panels, Carter Holt Harvey Panel products
Woodchip and log export
Softwood/Hardwood
Boral Timber Fibre Exports, Pentarch, South East Fibre Exports
International fibre markets
Pulp and paper
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Norske Skog, Visy Pulp and Paper Newsprint, cardboard
Investors N/A AgriWealth, ST Microelectronics and Snowy Mountains Forests
Plantation investment
Utilities and infrastructure
N/A Origin Energy, Crown Castle, National Broadband Network, Optus, Essential Energy, Telstra, Vertel, Vodafone
Telecommunications and electricity supplier
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Description Australia NSW Forests NSWTotal land area (million ha) 770 80 2.2Total population (million) 21 7 n/aForests as a percentage of land area 19% 33% 96%Total forest area (million ha) 149 26.5 2.2Native forest area (million ha)1 147 26.2 1.9Native forest area in formal nature conservation reserves (million ha)
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Area of forest not legally restricted from timber harvesting
113 19.9 1.5
Multiple-use public native forests (million ha) 9.4 2.2Area of native production forest harvested annually2 <1% n/r 1.3%Net plantation forest area (million ha) 2 0.37 0.24Number of people employed in forestry & forest product industries3 65 700 12 744 733
Net amount of carbon sequestered (million tonnes) by managed native forests per annum (e-CO2)
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Value of turnover in forest products industries (million)
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Forests in context
1 Includes native forest remnants within planted forest estate for Forests NSW2 Forest NSW only removes a proportion of the trees over the harvested areas, except in cypress pine forests
(28% of total area reported)3 Based on forestry and primary processing industries selected from the 2006 Census data for the state
figure and ABARES (May 2012) for the national figure.
Sources: ABARES Australian and Wood Products Statistics (May 2012), Forests NSW, DAFF State of the Forests Report 2008 and National Plantation Inventory Update 2009
Description AustraliaTotal exports of wood products $2.5 billionMajor exports to Japan (30%), China (22%) & New Zealand (13%) Total imports of wood products $4.4 billionMajor imports from New Zealand (16%), China (15%) & Indonesia (8%)Forests contribution to GDP 0.6%
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Forests NSW estate 2 201 709 ha
Native hardwood forests1 1 707 911 ha
Native cypress forests 161 489 ha
Native river red gum forests 35 308 ha
Softwood plantations2 210 349 ha
Hardwood plantations2 34 175 ha
Remainder of the plantation estate3 52 477 ha
Total estate 2 201 709 ha1 Includes Cumberland State Forest (41 ha) and retained vegetation primarily made up of native forests
managed within the planted forest estate (141 862 ha).2 The net stocked area of plantations.3 Unplanted areas as at 30 June 2012. Includes exclusions, the area of the plantation estate that was
clearfelled and the potential plantable area (e.g. purchased land not yet planted). The retained vegetation component has been included in native forests, refer to footnote 1.
Native Forest Operations 2011–12Area of native forest and hardwood plantation estate (ha) 1 813 465Area available for harvest (%) 69Area of native forest harvested (ha) 22 921Area of hardwood plantation harvested1 (ha) 908Revenue ($M) 112
Volume- Sawlog (‘000m3) 612- Pulp (‘000 tonnes) 503Earnings before interest and tax2 before overheads ($M) (3)Operating profit after overheads before tax2 ($M) (16)
Planted Forest OperationsNative Forest Operations
Central 415 042 ha
Western 483 649 ha
North East 482 016 ha
Corporate OfficeCumberland State Forest 41 ha
Northern 42 569 ha
Macquarie 146 121 ha
Hume 144 600 ha
Monaro 54 912 ha
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Southern 432 757 ha
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Planted Forest Operations 2011–12Area of softwood plantation estate (ha) 388 203Area available for harvest4 (%) 60Area of softwood plantation harvested1 (ha) 14 024Revenue ($M) 198
Volume- Sawlog (‘000m3) 1933- Pulp (‘000 tonnes) 1486Earnings before interest and tax2 before overheads ($M) 49Operating profit after overheads before tax2 ($M) 32
1 Includes clearfall and thinning operations.2 Excludes significant items such as revaluation impact, impairments and impact on superannuation funds, before taxes.4 Includes net stocked plantation area and the area available to be stocked (clearfall, potential plantable and
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Timber production
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Hardwood native 6372 460 1081 74 1088
Hardwood plantation 5121 401 174 19 46
Softwood2 plantation 15 042 982 4785 280 3710
Total 26 490 1842 6040 373 48441 Source: ABARES. 2 Includes cypress pine.
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Environmental benefitsArea of State forest harvested (37 853 ha) as a percentage of total estate
Area subject to harvesting operations
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Wildfires and prescribed burns trend as percentage of Forests NSW estate
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Safety is our first priority for our people, contractors, visitors and users of State forests. In all our forest management activities, the observance of safe work practices is the guiding principle by which we operate and we work towards achieving a world’s best practice safety record.
Social benefits
Recordable incident rate1
Permits for organised recreation activities1 2011–12
1 The recordable incident rate (aka all frequency rate) is the measure of all recordable incidents, including medical treatment only incidents and lost time incidents. A medical treatment only Incident is any incident that requires medical intervention such as stitches, a prescription or a referral. A lost time incident results in time lost from work of one day/shift or more.
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n 1.496 million hectares of native State forest available for timber harvesting
n 412 500 hectares in State forest reserves
n 206 hectares of new softwood plantation established
n 9355 hectares of plantations re-established
n 12% of softwood plantation requiring re-stocking after one year
n 9 million plantation seedlings planted
n Certification to AFS (AS 4708:2007) and EMS Standard (ISO 14001:2004) maintained
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Sustainability benefitsNative forest sustainability
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State forests – here today, here tomorrow
Forests NSW is a public trading enterprise within NSW Department of Primary Industries
Forests NSW forest management is independently certified as meeting the internationally recognised Australian Forestry Standard (AS 4708:2007).
Forest management certification is a market-based, voluntary forest management tool designed to recognise and promote environmentally responsible forestry and sustainability of forest resources.
PO Box 100, Beecroft 2119 121–131 Oratava Ave
West Pennant Hills 2125 Ph: (02) 9872 0111 Fax: (02) 9871 5341
Email: [email protected]
For further information, refer to Forests NSW Annual Report 2011–12 available online at www.forests.nsw.gov.au
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