Landari PPPA 7

Landari PPPA 7 is a Plantation Forestry project located in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, approximately 28km northeast of the major regional city of Bathurst. It was registered in May 2022 and covers 361.32 hectares.

Plantation forestry projects involve sequestering carbon by establishing and maintaining new commercial plantation forests. Standard requirements under the 2022 methodology dictate that these new plantations must be actively managed for the commercial harvesting of wood products while maintaining minimum tree stocking densities and protecting carbon stocks throughout the crediting period.

The Central Tablelands region is well-known for its mixed agriculture, particularly sheep and cattle grazing, alongside extensive commercial pine forestry operations. The area experiences moderate, reliable rainfall (typically 700-800mm annually) and features fertile soils such as clay loams, Chromosols, and Dermosols (often derived from tertiary basalts), providing an optimal environment for commercial timber growth.

This project was originally registered by Landari Pty Ltd, with the participant name officially changing to Group Energy Pty Ltd in January 2023. Group Energy operates as the sustainability, energy, and carbon arm of the Borg Group, a major Australian timber and manufacturing enterprise. The "PPPA" in the project's name stands for Plantation Pine Products Australia. By establishing new commercial pine forests, the Borg Group creates a circular economy model, offsetting corporate emissions and generating Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) while simultaneously supplying raw timber for their own manufacturing brands, such as polytec and Porta Products. Beyond carbon forestry, Group Energy is highly active in the broader renewable energy space, managing 16 MW of rooftop solar and deploying megawatt-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) to support the Borg Group's energy resilience and corporate sustainability targets.