Our judicious selection of trees ensures we produce a wide variety of species with high value by-products.  Different species flourish in different environments; and the types of trees, with their different by-products, will depend on the location of each project.  Trees are selected for their natural ability to withstand insect attack, fungi, viruses and other plant pests as well as their resistance to adverse climatic conditions such as drought and poor soils.  We also ensure that each project has a balanced selection of trees that increases the bio-diversity of the area.

Our plant nurseries and seed banks give us the security of supply for high quality trees to choose appropriate species for selected environments.  We pick trees that produce a wide diversity of by-products including wood, nuts, fruits, chemicals and pharmaceutical ingredients.  We take account of the long term requirements for maintaining the trees and woodland; as well as the needs to harvest by-products that increase the value of these forests.  A main part of our strategy is to ensure that the trees and plants have economically viable products and by-products.  This acts as an incentive to grow trees and prevent trees being cleared to create unsustainable pastures.

Treepak uses novel automated bio-technologies to mass produce tree plantlets.  The tree material is cloned from ideal parent plants using tissue culture under sterile assembly line conditions.  By using continuous culture systems we produce high quality and robust plantlets on a scale sufficiently large for our requirements for mass reforestation.

The process is automated so that the final product has a seedling already secured in its own Treepak container.  These production line techniques require minimum human intervention to ensure that the highest quality standards are maintained.  Because of the scale of the problem we have had to develop mass propagation technologies to produce tree plantlets in multi million quantities of the highest quality – and for a wide variety of species.