Who we are
Supply Chain Integrity, Globally
CMO operates world-wide, with our staff having worked in over 70 countries. Our purpose is to make the global supply chain for forest products legal, transparent and safe for responsible participants. We provide market entry for small growers and companies to trade their responsibly produced forest products in the mainstream global market.
CMO has an internationally renowned forestry team that provides solutions for the risks that forest owners face.
Forestry experts
WHAT WE DO
Our Services
CMO’s FSC licence codes: FSC-C140298, FSC-C150700, FSC-C155102, FSC-C151846
Compliance Services
Headed up by Ben Potgieter, the strength of CMO’s Compliance Management Division lies in the combination of the power of our Perform software solution to run FSC certified operations, our extensive experience and know-how of forest certification and our broad technical knowledge of forestry.
Headed up by Corris van den Berg, CMO Namibia offers:
- FSC Forest Management Group certification
- FSC Chain-of-Custody Group Certification
- Technical training in forest restoration and charcoal production
- Consulting services
Office: Otjiwarongo
Email: adminnamibia@cmogroup.io
Phone: +264 81 696 2224
Headed up by Kundai Kuveya, CMO South Africa offers:
- FSC Forest Management Group certification
- FSC Chain-of-Custody Group Certification
- Training and consulting services
Office: Howick
Email: adminsouthafrica@cmogroup.io
Phone: +27 79 383 8666
Headed up by Chittiwat Silapat, CMO Thailand offers:
- FSC Forest Management Group certification
- FSC Chain of Custody Certification Group Certification
- Training and consulting services
Office: Bangkok
Email: adminthailand@cmogroup.io
Phone: +66 89 144 1801
- FSC Forest Management Group certification
- Planning services for out growers and forestry companies
- Training and consulting services
Office: Mutare
Email: adminsouthafrica@cmogroup.io
Phone: +27 79 383 8666
- FSC Forest Management Group certification
- Training and consulting services
Office: Lusaka
Email: ivan@afzeliazambia.com
Phone: +260 97 8911343
Technical Services
Headed up by Andrew McEwan, the CMO Technical Services Division offers a range of services to small holders and forest companies across the globe:
FOREST CONSULTING AND ASSESSMENT SERVICES IN:
- Forest engineering, Fire risk management, Fire suppression, Silviculture and Forest management
- Forest planning: holistic management of the modern planning function
- Contractor development programmes (business acumen, safety, environment, social)
- Forest certification implementation for both forest management and chain of custody
- Holistic forest risk profiling with risk mitigation interventions
- Productivity improvement and cost reduction interventions
- Compliance assessments for the tobacco industry throughout Southern and East Africa
FOREST ASSESSMENT AND TRAINING SERVICES IN:
- FSC training headed up by Gerrit Marais:
- ASI Approved FSC FM and CoC auditor training
- Industry FSC FM and CoC training
- Implementation of FSC CoC systems
- Chainsaws: specialist instruction for high-risk harvesting
- Mechanised harvesting: modern forestry machines, also using simulators
- Silviculture: including mechanised equipment and chemical weeding
- Specialised training in fire suppression and fire risk management.
- High impact supervisory and management training, based on CMO’s unique PDCA, SPEQS, HIRAC model
Annual African forestry conference
ForestTrader Trading Portal
Headed up by Leon Chetty
For the first time in history buyers in for example Europe will have open access to FSC certified products sold directly from a farmer in for example Namibia.
To see how simple it is to trade
watch this 3 minute video.
Partners and clients
