Kevin Mahon

The wood chip here is for making wood fibre.

So we get it, we've a couple of different suppliers for wood chip.

We get it from Balcast and then a skillet.

The coir comes in in five kilo blocks.

Where were these coconuts grown originally?

These are mainly from India, a little bit from Sri Lanka, but mainly we get it from around the Kerala region.

Okay, in southern India.

Oh, it's a peat replacement, yeah.

Yeah.

It has its challenges.

It doesn't hold water as well.

It doesn't buffer nutrients as well compared to peat.

So you have to compensate by increasing your fertiliser to offset that.

No, we can produce an alternative.

The problem is if all our customers were to go to peat-free, then we wouldn't have enough raw materials.

There's not enough bark, there's not enough coir available.

We wouldn't have enough wood chip.

We just couldn't replace.

Today, we would not have the capacity to replace all the peat that we currently use.

But we can produce peat-free, but if everyone wants it tomorrow, there just isn't the availability of the materials there.