GUNNS Ltd's proposed Bell Bay pulp mill will be one of the world's top five pulp facilities for environmental compliance when built, says chief executive Greg L'Estrange.
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Tasmanian permit conditions for the pulp mill were the most onerous for any operation globally, Mr L'Estrange said in Sydney yesterday.
Mr L'Estrange was addressing delegates at a national share funds conference.
He said despite the difficulties, the pulp mill would remain as one of the four major planks of the revitalised company.
Only two days after Tasmanian forestry, environmental, business and government representatives signed an historic agreement on the future of the state's forestry industry, Mr L'Estrange was out on the national financial investment circuit spruiking the reasons for investment in Gunns.
Mr L'Estrange has said for some time that the results of the government-initiated roundtable would influence the way forward by the company.
Gunns' annual financial report, released this month, showed that the company was still negotiating with two financiers in an effort to raise the $2.3 billion needed for the proposed pulp mill.
Mr L'Estrange told potential investors at the UBS Australia annual conference yesterday that Gunns was a company in transition whose business objectives included a "socially and responsible pulp and softwood business".