Pukepine Sawmills and PurePine Mouldings are owned by Ken Tanner and his two sons Jeff and Paul. The Tanner family have been successfully involved in sawmilling for over 30 years.

For Ken it all started at a young age when his father owned and operated a mill near Te Kuiti (Central North Island, New Zealand). They say ‘when sawdust is in the blood’ it is certainly hard to get out!

Each of his four children, have been and some still are, involved in the business.

Jeff (Financial Controller and General Manager), Paul (Engineering) and Rachel (Sales) help to bring innovation, vision and drive to the company.

Pukepine and PurePine statistics:

Land area of the two sites is 7.838ha

At the sawmill sawn output is 50,000m3 per annum

There are 3 kilns fired by a 4 megawatt wood waste burner plus 6 kilns fired by a 6 megawatt wood waste burner.  There is approx 5,000m3 drying capacity per month

These kilns are a mix of acccelerated conventional and conventional drying

Machining capabilities:  Stetson Ross planer and 2 x weineg 22b 8 head moulders

Treating capabilities:  Pressure treated H1.2 boron and CCA H3, H3.2, H4.  Also Tru-Core H1.2 boron dry and H3.1 boron dry.

Stress grading facilities

2 x Dimter Opticut optimisers, fingerjointing and laminating capabilities

Universal finishing system vacuum coater with denibbing and inline drying