First Gilbert planer in Australia

Gilbert is pleased to announce that in May 2013; the company sold its first Gilbert Planer to Australia.

Gilbert, along with their partner Acora is proud to have sold a High Speed Planer to Carter Holt Harvey in Caboolture, Australia.

All three companies were glad to meet at the Wood Expo 2013 event in Albury and used this opportunity to underline the first planer delivery in Australia. (Picture taken with Mike Bitzer, Project Manager for Carter Holt Harvey, Roger Timms, Managing Director of Acora and Heidi Danbrook, Sales Manager for Gilbert Products Inc.)

“Gilbert is very thankful and enthusiastic to work with CHH on a first Gilbert Planer project”, declared Ms. Heidi Danbrook, Sales Manager at Gilbert. “We look forward to a very successful start-up”, added Ms. Danbrook.

Acora, Gilbert’s dealer in Australia and New Zealand is located in Eden, Australia. Acora is committed to enterprise improvement for its clients, where their expertise in design, manufacture, installation and project management of sawmill and optimising equipment has seen large increases in value adding to maximise the potential value of our precious resources and plantation timber assets.