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Shane Wilson: mill general manager on the Tai Rāwhiti mill reopening under Australian management · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Right now, some good business news for a change. New
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  Speaker 2: owners will reopen tight after his sawmill. This means investment,
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  Speaker 2: this means jobs. This is great stuff. The mill ran
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  Speaker 2: for thirty years before closing in twenty twenty three, but
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  Speaker 2: is now being acquired by Malari, which is an Australian outfit.
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  Speaker 2: Before its closure, Shane Wilson worked at the mill for
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  Speaker 2: twenty three years. He will return as general manager and
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  Speaker 2: he's with me this evening. Hi Shane, Hey you rong.
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  Speaker 2: How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited excited on en.
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  Speaker 2: What is the plan? What have you been told so
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  Speaker 2: far about when and how this will happen?
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  Speaker 3: So currently we're in the settlement stage of the process.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully you get the key handed over to us leader
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  Speaker 3: this month. On that key handing over where we'll be
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  Speaker 3: entering site and recommissioning most of the machinery they're helping.
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  Speaker 2: It's an awesome outcome. What state is the machinery and
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  Speaker 2: where they need to be upgrades and things.
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  Speaker 3: There would be a Laura upgrading. Eventually the mill is
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  Speaker 3: like you said thirty years old and it is a
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  Speaker 3: lebor intensive milk and I'm guessing we'll have to try
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  Speaker 3: and get rid of that heavy lifting for our operators.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest, What.
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  Speaker 2: Type of reaction have you had from people, especially because
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  Speaker 2: there would have been a lot of eighty seven made
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  Speaker 2: redundant in twenty twenty three. Have you heard from some
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  Speaker 2: of them?
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  Speaker 3: I have heard from a lot of them, seen as
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  Speaker 3: when public have been getting calls from many saying chances
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  Speaker 3: of me having a position back at the mill, and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's been awesome. There's been a lot of critical staff
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  Speaker 3: also with the technical side of everything. They've been bringing
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  Speaker 3: up also and trying to secure a position at upcoming
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  Speaker 3: malari email.
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  Speaker 2: Shane, how many rots? Do you know how many jobs
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  Speaker 2: they will be available?
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  Speaker 3: Initially we're going to just need fraw F staff to
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  Speaker 3: do all the machinery and recommission most of the machinery
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  Speaker 3: with the help of a lot of trade companies contractors
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  Speaker 3: coming in also. Initially we will head towards the eighty
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  Speaker 3: eighty people mark, So that's the initial one and in
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  Speaker 3: two years, maybe one year, we'll be heading towards the
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  Speaker 3: only for seven day operation, which will be around about
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  Speaker 3: two hundred to two eighty staff.
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  Speaker 2: Quiet, wow, so a lot more, a lot more than
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  Speaker 2: the Japanese output. Ended with yes, what's everyone been doing since?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: For those people who did lose their jobs, did they
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  Speaker 2: all manage to find new jobs in the meantime? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: or have people been have some people been kind of
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  Speaker 2: without work for that time?
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  Speaker 3: Are the ones that I know of have had secured
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  Speaker 3: jobs on the day they had finished some had finished
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  Speaker 3: earlier which went on gardening to secure jobs and Jane
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  Speaker 3: looked after them. They did workshops, they did career days
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  Speaker 3: on site for the stuff and a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: community of the teaman and hired most of them all.
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  Speaker 2: Oh good, I'm pleased to hear it, and I'm pleased
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  Speaker 2: to hear that this going to be more jobs to
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  Speaker 2: go around for you guys soon. Shane, thanks very much
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  Speaker 2: for your time. Appreciate it. Shane Wilson, the general manager
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  Speaker 2: of malari in Z Mill which is coming back. The
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  Speaker 2: mill is coming back to tight after your Gibsblane, which
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  Speaker 2: is fantastic news.
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