Duration: 2:34
Jazzy music plays.
[Wide shot of forklift moving planks of wood into storage.]
[Logo appears: Kānoa Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit]
Shaun Bosson: Wet stands for ‘wood engineering technology’.
[Mid shot of Shaun Bosson. He wears hi-vis and stands outside a construction site]
Shaun: We're a really a technology company first and foremost, working in the advanced manufacturing of building products, wood based building products.
[Panning shot showing planks of wood inside a factory]
Shaun: New Zealand is at the forefront of sustainable forestry.
[Drone footage of tree-felling in a forest]
Shaun: And the reality is, I don't think personally, we're getting enough value from it here in New Zealand and so there's a massive opportunity for New Zealand to do a better job in that regard.
[Mid shot of Shaun as he speaks]
Shaun: And certainly that's what borne our technology was around ensuring that we could use logs that were exported, maybe for lower value applications…
[Visuals cut between a mid shot of Shaun as he speaks, and various shots of logs outside a large factory]
Shaun: …but actually use them in New Zealand to produce a high performing product that can really change the sustainable nature of the buildings we build here in New Zealand. The product is based around taking a wide variety of logs and converting them optimally to a highly engineered high performance, wood product.
[Various shots of the wood product within a factory, and wrapped up in plastic, ready to be shipped]
Shaun: Callahan have made comments, most recently that it's one of the most advanced applications of industry for technology that I've seen in this part of the world. So it's really about automation, from whoah to go and utilising the highest technology concepts we can to produce our OEL product.
[Mid shot of Richard Searle of Trust Tairawhiti]
Richard: WET's brought a significant benefit to our regional economy, but really the, to my mind looking to the future as to where the biggest benefit will come, it's really the opportunity for regional rangatahi to come into the business and to contribute as employees to be upskilled, to be trained, in a whole new digital environment.
[Various shots of people hard at work in various roles: on a cherry picker, driving a forklift]
[Mid shot of Joshua Bartram, a young man wearing hi-vis. There are many logs and piles of stacked wood in the background]
Joshua Bartram: At the moment, I've been accepted here with very little understanding of how it works. And this should offer me experience that I wouldn't have gotten anywhere else.
[push shot of a beach]
Joshua: Because this is Gisborne and a more rural place, you don't find the automated technology that this place provides and so working with stuff on a more technological level, it's just really awesome.
[Mid shot of Shaun as he speaks]
Shaun: If we didn't have the funding from Kānoa, we wouldn't be here where we are today. So as a business, it's on the growth curve. Capital is a key constraint for us. So Kānoa saw the potential of our business and wanted to support us through that growth curve that we're on.
[Wide panning shots of the construction site]
Shaun: We can't thank Kānoa enough for their support.
[Drone shot, moving away from the person driving the forklift]
[Logos appear: Kānoa Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit; Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment Hīkina Whakatutuki; Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa New Zealand Government]
Music fades.
[Fade to black]
