Latest - Forestry company Claymark has been placed in receivership and will likely be sold on, just months after it was set to be acquired.
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The producer of pine wood products has more than 500 staff and six manufacturing sites across Auckland, Thames and the Bay of Plenty.
Receivers from the firm KordaMentha have been appointed to ring-fence the company, and all of its subsidiaries, assets and operations.
Claymark entered into a sale agreement in August, to be bought by the company NZ Future Forest Products, which is directed by a New Zealand First party associate.
RNZ has reported that Future Forest was denied government funding from the Provincial Growth Fund and the One Billion Trees programme this year.
The managing director of Claymark says the planned sale of the company to Future Forest never settled, and it will likely be sold to it or another buyer.
The company will continue to trade as normal and its United States business is not affected.
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