Who Is ATICA

We often hear the question, "What's in a name?" Here at Atica, we truly believe that our name represents who we are, what we stand for, what we do and more importantly ... why we do what we do. We provide a lot more than just tree forestry.

ATICA offers an incredible resource pool of highly trained, experienced and skilled ... Timber Investment Conversion Advisors ... to assist our clients as well as our client's clients to efficiently "convert" their timber resources into tangible and realizable marketable value.

ATICA provides support services in the areas of forestry consulting including certified forestry, timberland hardwood plantation, softwood plantation, and natural standing timber, sawmills, lumber and marketing that clearly focus on building "measurable and delivered value" among Institutional Investors ... Certified Soft- and Hardwood Timber Plantations ... Sawmills and their Global, Supply-Chain Market Makers.

By working together with our clients - one step at a time, we assist them to custom develop and implement World Class "Executive Dashboards", Procedures and Protocols that i) define, ii) measure and iii) improve upon three Powerful Business Drivers:

For over 20 years ATICA's affiliates have been providing a full spectrum of bottom line, solution focused services to operators, managers and institutional investors of forestlands, sawmills, bio-fuel driven electrical cogeneration plants and systems, water conversion/purification plants and other green-to-market conversion processes. Each and every affiliate brings incredible practical hands-on experience and professional know how throughout the entire international timber supply chain.

From our perspective, forestry consulting includes seedling genetics and agro-forestry research at the university level ... tree forestry including serving as our client's forestry consultant on plantations and certified forests ... to designing, constructing and operating new hardwood and softwood sawmills ... to delivering factual based risk/return operating profile assessment reports ... to upgrading older sawmill output productivity and finally ... to international marketing, Atica's bottom line, value-driven passion is to assist each and every one of our clients to:

• Define, Prioritize, Benchmark and Mitigate their Investment Risk (beta Profile) while ...
• Optimizing their Returns (alpha) throughout the entire "Woodlot-to-Market" Supply Chain Process.

Our approach and passion on every project we accept is to produce "readily recognizable value"... on a daily basis. That is our guarantee. However, the real value we attempt to offer our clients rarely gets recorded in any financial statement, i.e.

• To Create and Preserve Family Paying Jobs within the Country's Local Economy.
• To Inspire A Community Base of Hope, Trust and Belief in their Future ... and ...
• To Co-Facilitate a Healthy Economic Reality for the People, their Children and their Future.

To learn more about our affiliates, please see Who We Are.

For more information on what Atica may be able to do for the communities you seek to serve contact us at Information@ATICA.us or call Gary Cantrell at (541) 408-4600.