The TFS Corporation started its first commercial Indian Sandalwood harvest of 30 hectares on the East Kimberley Sandalwood Project No.1 (EKS) planted in 1999 in Western Australia. Source: Timberbiz
All planned harvest processes went well according to TFS.
Five hectares of TFS owned trees were harvested and all recovered heartwood and sapwood and have been transferred from the harvest site to the primary processing centre.
The newly constructed centre had its first opportunity to function as a grading, sorting and preparation facility.
As the first trees harvested are owned by TFS, the graded logs will now be transported to the Mt Romance facility in Albany where they will be processed into high quality oil for sale to the fine fragrance and pharmaceutical industry.
The harvest volumes are in line with TFS’ estimation for the EKS harvest which was encouraging.
TFS said that its new equipment and staff performed well in their new roles and that the company was very pleased with this initial start to the harvest program.
The first 30 hectare harvest is expected to be completed in October 2013 with the balance of approximately 114 hectares to commence after the wet season in April 2014 and conclude by June 2014.
