Jurgen Mercex (CEO Forest Timber Frames, Weissenwald)
"Ladies and Gentleman it is wonderful to be here and to kick start this first Expo. To be able to showcase what we do to the wider world, and to be among other innovators is exciting and I hope that we can persuade a few of you to utilise what we do. Our homeland is a nation full of forests, as such we have an abundance of a sustainable and I believe beautiful raw material in the shape of timber. The forests of our homeland are responsibly forested by our company in a way that means we allow the habitats these create to flourish but also help the environment. We strategically choose trees to harvest based not just on their ease of use for us but also on which will have the best environmental outcome. By doing this we are then able to plant three trees for each we cut down, sadly we know not all will grow up to be big and strong trees so we have to edge our bets. The great thing though is that these new trees when they grow absorb even more carbon dioxide than fully grown trees. Studies suggest young, actively growing forests can sequester carbon at rates ranging from 2 to 10 metric tons of CO2 per hectare per year. So while we're helping the atmosphere we're busy working with the older trees in our state of the art workshops.
It is in these workshops we build a vast range of timber framed buildings that can then be loaded, almost flat pack style, and sent anywhere in the world. These buildings can then be erected quickly and with joinery techniques with relative little need for other products. Modern plumbing and electrics can be added and we even have kits for solar panels, windmills and even thanks to our Alander customers geothermal energy. We've built everything from single room mancaves to three story family homes. Our research shows that you can expect to pay anywhere between $200,000 and $600,000 for a three bedroom brick house in our homeland, however one of our beauties would cost around half that , somewhere in the region of $100,000 and $300,000. That means we're better for the environment, better for the economy and better for communities. While we've been a success in Weissenwald we now want to be a success elsewhere so first we're looking for distributors across Mundus. Second we'd like to offer a chance to buy shares to enable us to launch Forest Timber Biofuel. Our manufacturing process is as resource savvy as we can make it. Little wood goes to waste and traditionally what has been left over has been utilised in a variety of ways ranging from being used to help make packaging to being gifted to local schools for projects of their own. What we however now intend to do is ensure every shard of sawdust is collected and every splinter of wood. These will be condensed into pellets and sold as a biofuel. While this is not a perfectly clean fuel it is one that is sustainable and in remote areas of the world can be used in a hugely diverse manner of ways. We therefore are offering the equivalent of 5% of our business on the Altonan stock market in the coming days to fund this new launch. It is our hope that this floatation will see us raise some $10,000,0000.
I hope that our company can return here next year showing you our success and even more new ideas our company has being brought to life."
