Whakatane Mill Limited

Whakatane Mill Limited (WML) are Australasia’s only manufacturer of coated paperboard grades for the packaging market. All of our paperboard is produced to the highest quality from virgin fibre for the greatest product safety and optimal performance. We are extremely proud of our past having been part of the Bay of Plenty community since 1939. We directly employ in excess of 185 personnel - the vast majority of whom come from the local Whakatane area. We started production in 1939 to turn the nearby Central North Island Pine forests into export paperboard for New Zealand’s growing economy. Paperboard is an environmentally sustainable packaging format, with raw materials sourced responsibly from nearby renewable pine plantations or from a dedicated, qualified supplier base. Every product that we make fits easily into already established circular recycling programs, ensuring that our impact on the environment and consumer waste to landfill is minimised. Our ownership history has been diverse – from NZ Forest Products in the early days, to Carter Holt Harvey and Rank Group, SIG Combibloc and since June 2021 by the Smurfit Consortium. Our current owners are committed to investing in WML to ensure that the business has a future for decades to come. Today we produce in excess of150,000 tonnes of paperboard annually on a 24hr/day, 7 days a week basis, with an already invested expansion plan that will take the Mill volume to in excess of 200,000 tonnes by the end of 2023. We are committed to being an employer of choice in the Bay of Plenty area and continuing to support the New Zealand timber industry and our many customers and suppliers all over the globe. And we're delighted to help strengthen the families of our employees and contribute meaningfully to the communities in which we live.

Website

https://www.wml.biz/

External link for Whakatane Mill Limited

Industry

Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing

Company size

201-500 employees

Headquarters

Whakatane

Type

Privately Held

Founded

1939

Specialties

Folding Box Board, Food board, Beverage board, and Formakote