Forestry Awards
Recognising and celebrating excellence amongst the skilled workforce of our region.
The Canterbury West Coast Wood Council Forestry Awards provides a collective voice for the forestry and wood sector in Canterbury and the West Coast of the South Island. The next Awards night is to be celebrated on 2 August 2024.
CWCWC Awards 2024 – Key Dates
The key objectives in having these awards are to benefit the region’s forestry industry in several exciting ways, namely:
We encourage businesses within the industry to become involved in this exciting event. It is important that we all share the vision to recognise skilled professionals, applaud them and create a desire to continue to lift the profile of forestry in the Canterbury and West Coast region.
- To attract skilled employees to the region as valued forest industry players
- To up skill and lift the standard of the skill base of the forestry workforce
- To provide an opportunity for the CWCWC’s forest industry to celebrate its skilled professionals
- To unite industry players
- To create a healthy and challenging competition amongst the industry
Categories
These categories cover the full supply chain from silviculture to logging, road civil engineering and then to truck drivers, port marshalling and stevedoring. Some will be very specific to a sector of the industry but the general ones are available to anyone.
Business Innovation
Forestry Excellence
Harvesting Excellence
Distribution Excellence
Wood Processing Excellence
Crew of the Year
Emerging Talent of the Year
Outstanding Health & Safety Management
Outstanding Environmental Management
Outstanding Contribution to the Forestry Industry
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Meet the Judges
John Hawkins
I have been in the Timber Industry my whole life and experienced many changes within the industry. I have been chairperson of NZ Timber Export, president of the Timber Federation and involved with numerous organization within the industry. I am looking forward to being involved in the Canterbury West Coast Wood Council Awards for 2024.
Mark Grover
I’m the recently retired General Manager of Operations for Rayonier Matariki Forests NZ. I’ve spent most of my 48 years of my Forestry career in the Canterbury Region along with a recent 5 year stint in the Southland /Otago region. Over that time, I’ve worked for the NZ Forest Service, The Forestry Corporation, Carter Holt Harvey Forests and for the past 18 years in management roles with Rayonier Matariki. I’m looking forward to joining the judging panel for the 2024 CWCWC Awards having been very impressed with the inaugural awards in 2022.
Dr Elizabeth Heeg
Chief Executive of the New Zealand Forest Owners Association
Elizabeth has a strong background in forest systems and the regulatory and policy frameworks supporting them, including climate, biodiversity and water policy. Elizabeth has worked for MPI, DoC and the QEII Trust.
She is passionate about forestry’s role in the bioeconomy and the potential for forests to provide social, environmental and economic benefits.
“I’m looking forward to participating in the 2024 CWCWC Awards to recognise the awesome people involved in the forest industry in Canterbury and the West Coast and the great work they do.”
– Elizabeth Heeg
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