SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble
(NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that New Forests, a Sydney-based sustainable real assets
investment specialist, will implement Trimble's Land Resource
Manager (LRM) solution to manage its Acacia Forest Industries Sdn
Bhd (AFI) investment information.
Trimble's LRM solution is an intuitive, interactive and
spatially-aware enterprise application for managing land and
forestry operations. The software solution serves the critical
functions of asset planning, management and decision support with
flexible customer-specific business workflows. LRM is a key
component of Trimble's Connected Forest solution, which manages the
full raw materials lifecycle.
"Trimble's Connected Forest solution lays the foundation for a
centralized reporting and compliance process," said Ken Moen, general manager of Trimble's Forestry
Division. "We are committed to delivering a solution that addresses
New Forests' land, forest and conservation business and investment
strategies."
"Our growing Asian investment business demands a robust forest
information management system to enable effective asset
management," said James Bullen,
director, Investments & Operations for New Forests. "As our
portfolio companies adopt the Trimble Connected Forest solution, we
believe it will support efforts to enhance forest value and
enterprise value through strategic management of the forest
resources of our investments."
About New Forests
New Forests is a sustainable real assets investment manager
offering leading-edge strategies in forestry, timber processing,
land management and conservation. Founded in 2005, the company's
investment programs focus on the Asia-Pacific region and the U.S., with more
than AUD 3.7 billion in funds, assets under management and
committed capital. New Forests' clients include pension funds,
superannuation funds and other institutional investors. The company
is headquartered in Sydney,
Australia with offices in Singapore, San
Francisco and New
Zealand.
For more information, visit: www.newforests.com.au.
About Trimble's Forestry Division
Trimble's Forestry Division offers land, forest and fiber
management solutions that improve the productivity and operations
for some of the world's most recognized integrated forest product
companies, forest land owners, timberland investment, conservation,
state and federal departments as well as international food
processing companies involved in environmental, social and economic
land management. The Connected Forest solutions manage the full raw
materials lifecycle of planning, planting, growing, harvesting and
transport.
For more information,
visit: www.trimble.com/forestry.
About Trimble
Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering
products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds.
Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data
analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety
and sustainability. From purpose built products to enterprise
lifecycle solutions, Trimble software, hardware and services are
transforming a broad range of industries such as agriculture,
construction, geospatial and transportation and logistics. For more
information about Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB), visit:
www.trimble.com.
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