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A modern wood processing mill

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A modern wood processing mill

This Wairarapa wood processing mill was built in 1992 by JNL (Juken Nissho Ltd), a Japanese company that also owns forests and mills in Kaitāia and Gisborne. It produces panel and veneer products, and kiln-dried lumber. Since the 1990s, as ownership of forests has diversified, more such mills have been built.

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Michael Roche, Exotic forestry – Ownership changes in the 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16615/a-modern-wood-processing-mill (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Michael Roche, published 1 March 2009.