Current Projects

Hansol PI has joined with two other major plantation growers to form Western Australia Multi-core Alliance (WAMA) for the purpose of securing a multi-core position on the new (2005) Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Sustainable Production Forestry.

What is CRC?

The Commonwealth Government and private participants provide funding, in equal proportions, under a program known as the Cooperative Research Centre Program (the CRC program).

The Objective of the CRC Program is:

To enhance Australia's industrial, commercial and economic growth through the development of sustained, user-driven, cooperative public-private research centers to achieve high levels of outcome in adoption and commercialization.

Hansol PI's Chief Executive Officer is currently on the Board of the CRC.

While there are many different CRC programs currently active throughout Australia, Hansol PI and its WAMA partners are participating in the new CRC for Sustainable Production Forestry. The Sustainable Production Forestry CRC encompasses four main Research Program headings, these being:

  1. Managing and Monitoring for growth and health;
  2. High-value Wood Resources;
  3. Harvest Operations and;
  4. Trees in the Landscape.

Each program heading is further broken down into a number of sub-programs which distinguishes geographical research focuses within Australia and identifies a range of deliverables to achieve the Program outcome.

A summary of each program and sub-program are available by accessing the CRC Research Programs (pdf).

In addition to Core membership on the Sustainable Production Forestry CRC, Hansol PI offers significant in kind contributions (contributions other than cash) by way of access to specific company research projects.

Other Research Projects

IPMG

Hansol PI is an active member on the Industry Pest Management Group (IPMG), a cooperative of plantation growers, with the aim of minimising economic loss due to pests and diseases by sharing information and collaboration outcomes among its members and by conducting research toward development of commercial, economic and environmentally sustainable, efficient operational methods of managing pests and disease.

The IPMG has been instrumental in raising awareness of industry participants in plantation insect phenology, carrying out research to determine insect threshold levels before for economic loss occurs and building on the established pest/pathogen database sets. In addition, the IPMG have recognised the importance of research in the areas of coppice management for the second rotation. With this in mind, further research is planned to quantify pest populations and damage levels under differing harvest debris regimes within second rotation coppice stands.