Mamaku Sawmilling Co Ltd
- where impeccable customer service is a tradition

Traditional skills teamed with first-rate customer services have stamped Mamaku's name on the map as a producer of top-grade timber products ideal for furniture, cladding and finger-jointed building products.

Part of the White Cliffs Timber group, Mamaku specialises in producing 'clear' appearance-grade timber products milled from pruned butts of radiata pine from various different Central North Island forests.

The mill is approximately 20 kilometres north of Rotorua on State Highway 5, right in the heart of one of the North Island's major timber industry regions. It also has a processing unit based in Ngongataha.

The Mamaku sawmill fills orders for the New Zealand market as well as Australia, the United States and Asia. It cuts a minimum 35,000 cubic metres of sawn timber annually.

Nothing is wasted. Lower grade logs and log sections are milled for use in pallet and box manufacture. Wood chips are sold for pulp and paper manufacture, wood shavings and sawdust are used as fuel for the kiln boilers, and bark is sold for use in landscaping and gardens.

Proud history
The first mill on the site was built in 1948 when the New Zealand Railways began cutting rimu, matai, totara and other indigenous logs - mainly for railway carriage panelling. A fire in the 1960s destroyed the upper floor, and the present mill's building was erected in its place.

White Cliffs first became associated with the mill in 1987, by which time it was processing mostly radiata pine - and no indigenous logs. Our company took over 100 per cent ownership of the mill in 2002, and continued to upgrade the kilns, as well as upgrade the mill, machinery and existing facilities.

Mamaku owns Omahuta Forests Ltd, with 1000 hectares of radiata pine forests in Northland's Far North district.