Carter Holt Harvey

Carter Holt Harvey is one of Australasia's leading forest products companies, manufacturing and supplying timber, laminated veneer lumber, plywood, particleboard and other building products to the New Zealand and Australian markets. CHH together with its legacy companies has been a feature of the Australasian timber industry for more than 100 years. Over the past decade, it has reconfigured its asset base through a combination of organic growth, mergers and acquisitions, capacity expansions at key sites and investment in technology. It has consistently introduced new processes to improve productivity, and kept the business streamlined by closing smaller, less competitive facilities. In 2011, a new management team under CEO Prafull Kesha was put in place. This team has strengthened the business and remains committed to further improving CHH’s performance. CHH is organised into three business units: Woodproducts NZ (WPNZ), Woodproducts Australia (WPA), and Carters. WPNZ is the largest producer of wood-based building products in New Zealand. WPNZ’s market-leading position is supported by its large scale production operations, its good access to competitively-priced raw materials, its broad range of products and the strong relationships it maintains with major distribution channels.

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