Kiwi Charcoal Limited

COMMITTED TO QUALITY Kiwi Charcoal is the first and only sawdust charcoal briquette manufacturing company with operations in the rural Waikato region engaging with the local population for our personnel requirements and adding value to the local economy Our Goals - Convert carbon in waste sawdust and dead wood to charcoal – SAVE TREES - Transform New Zealand from a net importer to exporter of high-quality charcoal logs & briquettes CHARCOAL IS RENEWABLE New Zealand currently imports almost all its charcoal of just over 7,000 tons per annum from countries where exhaustible supplies of hardwood are not being properly sustained with replanting and sustainable practices whereas our product is renewable. Kiwi Charcoal uses the waste of the New Zealand lumber and timber industry as its raw material that is otherwise land-filled where methane production is inevitable. While most landfills in New Zealand are harvesting some of their bio-gas for power production, there is always some gas escaping and contributing to the increase of greenhouse gases which could accumulate as a contribution to anthropological global climate instability. Kiwi Charcoal has re-designed the anaerobic mechanical process for manufacture of charcoal from sawdust which is more suitable to the New Zealand conditions and raw material of Radiata Pine sawdust available in the country. Kiwi Charcoal uses not only sawdust, peelings and shavings but even broken logs and small branches commonly abandoned on the lumber camps are also a potential source of raw material available for use without impacting the existing productivity of the mills or loss of a single job to the communities relying on these industries.