AKD
Mark Diedrichs is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in land and fibre supply management within the forestry and timber industries. Currently serving as Land Manager and Fibre Supply Manager for AKD since September 2021, Mark oversees strategic fibre supply projects across various Australian operations. Prior to this, Mark was a Consultant at MD Consulting, where the focus was on maximising resource value for key clients, including AKD. Mark's previous role as General Manager at C3 from 2017 to 2020 involved implementing health and safety initiatives, expanding services into a leading forest industry contractor, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Mark's experience also includes serving as Regional Manager for Australian Bluegum Plantations from 2009 to 2017, overseeing extensive land management and operations. Mark holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Forestry from the University of Canterbury and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Massey University, along with leadership training from AGSM at UNSW Business School.
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AKD
Associated Kiln Driers Pty Ltd (trading as AKD) is a 100% Australian owned and operated integrated forestry and timber processing company with operations in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. AKD is distinctive amongst its key competitors for its reputation as a high quality producer, its exceptional customer service and its vertically integrated operations which comprise: • Six sawmills processing in excess of 2,000,000m3 of sawlog per annum, providing over 1 million cubic metres of timber products annually • Over 10,000 hectares of sustainably grown radiata pine plantations located in Victoria and South Australia • Three post and pole preservation sites • A softwood chip export operation based in Geelong • Multiple treatment sites • NSW Distribution Centre Building an excellent reputation on its quality, service and flexibility, AKD has a wide range of products, and an end to end planning process that enables products to be made to order and dispatched on its own truck fleet, to customers across Australia. As a regional employer, AKD plays an active part in supporting a variety of local community activities and sees its employees as the vital ingredient in its past and future success. Since its founding, AKD has continually made significant investments to ensure long term growth and prosperity. AKD has grown its business over the long term, by building a stable foundation. This solid foundation includes stable ownership, long term customer relationships, long term log contracts, and its own plantations and multiple state of the art processing facilities. These foundations are constantly being enhanced by continual reinvestment in the business, plant expansions, plantation growth, employee development and the latest processing, automation, scanning and optimisation technology. AKD is proud of its 60-year history, still operating on the site on which it was founded in Colac, Victoria in 1955 by an association of local family companies.