Our Investments
Teak Investments
* 4yr old teak trees awaiting inter cropping with Gliricidia, Vanilla & Peppers which will promote quality teak production.
Description
Teak is a golden brown wood with a distinctive grain. The wood is highly durable due to its naturally high oil content; it doesn’t warp, crack or turn black when in contact with metal, nor does it rot or mold when wet. These hard-wearing and aesthetic qualities coupled with the scarcity of the timber due to global mass deforestation have helped make teak an extremely valuable commodity. TGIC invite you to invest and acquire your very own plot of teak trees and enjoy windfall returns over the long term. This is essentially a secure socially responsible retirement plan and a plan which has been successful for wealthy families in South East Asia for hundreds of years.
Commercial Uses
Mature teak is used for a number of outdoor applications including decking, construction, ship building, whilst younger teak is in demand for furniture and other indoor applications.
Term
Sapling Teak Investment - Returns paid via multiple harvests from year 10 onwards and at your sole discretion.
Standing Teak Investment - Trees are already 7 years old and returns can be paid at anytime from year 3 through to final harvest at year 9/10(i.e.trees will be 16/17 years old)
Type of investment
Long term capital appreciation
See Teak Investments to the right of the screen for further details
Bamboo Investments
Description
A sustainable forestry investment offering all the financial and environmental benefits of traditional sustainable forestry investment but without the wait. TGIC along with our plantation company partner, one of the world’s leading forestry companies with 22 plantations, offices in 6 countries and over 500 employees, invite you to invest in the fastest growing plant on the planet: Bamboo. A plant with huge commercial demand which offers investors an annual return from as early as year 2 of the investment.
Commercial Uses
Over 1 billion people live in houses made of bamboo. In India alone over 2.2 million tonnes of bamboo is used for paper. Other applications include food, cosmetics, medicine, construction (Scaffolding), joinery, panels, flooring, furniture, charcoal, pulp, textiles, bio-fuels and also a major source of biomass for use in renewable energy production.
Term
Returns paid as early as year 2 and then yearly thereafter averaging circa 30% per annum over a 15 year life span.
Type of investment
Annual returns with capital appreciation
See Bamboo Investments to the right of the screen for further details or alternatively contact one of our sales consultants
Description
Agarwood is a dark resinous heartwood that forms in the Aquilaria tree when it becomes infected with a type of bacteria. The heartwood begins life relatively pale in colour, but as the infection takes hold, the tree produces a dark aromatic resin in response to the attack, resulting in a dark, dense, resin embedded heartwood. Oud, is the name given to the oil which is distilled from agarwood, has a distinctive fragrance for which it is highly valued.
Commercial Uses
Agarwood can either be cut into wood chips for aromatic burning or “oud oil” can be extracted from the heartwood via the process of distillation. Because of the scarcity of the aquilaria tree, oud oil distilled from agarwood can cost up to $50,000 per litre and agarwood chips cost from anywhere between £20 per kilo up to £6,000 per kilo, depending on resin content.
Oud is considered as a supreme fragrance in the Gulf countries and is burned as a mark of respect and hospitality and is a traditional gesture of welcoming and honouring guests. In fact, Oud is considered an important feature at most social occasions. The Japanese donate flowers and oud oil to Shinto-Buddhist temples, and it is also widely used in China. Oud is also widely used as a fragrance in the Gulf region and is also used in by many western perfumery houses. Please see Product Information for further details.
Plantation Locations
Sri Lanka & Thailand
Term
Seven year agarwood, produces a single financial return at the end of year seven
Type of Investment
Capital appreciation
Please see Agarwood Investments to the right of the screen for further details
Insurance
In the first three years of planting your teak tree saplings, our plantation partner will replant, at no extra cost, any saplings that fail or any that appear to carry any risks of not producing the finest specimen possible. After a teak sapling has reached year three, the risk of crop failure is very low, but should one of your trees fail, our plantation partner will look to replace it like for like from its own teak tree inventory. The insurance policy does not apply to the already established Standing Teak product.
Should any of your bamboo clumps fail at anytime over the 15 year period of investment, our plantation partner will replace them like for like, from its own bamboo inventory.
For the five year agarwood investment, replanting insurance is for a period of 2 years since the trees have already been established for 1 - 2 years; and for three year agarwood, the insurance policy is not required since the trees have already been established for 3 to 4 years.
Should you wish to insure any of our products over the entire lifetime of your investment, we can refer you to a number of insurance companies who can arrange this for you.
