Western Australian Sandalwood Nut Oil

Wescorp has been working for a number of years to help establish a market for the oil extracted from the Western Australian Sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) nut.

Our in house research scientist Dhanushka (Danny) Sugeeshwara Hettiarachichi (B.Pharm M.Pharm MRACI CChem) has made this his priority project and is completing his PhD candidacy at the Curtin University of Technology currently.

The subject is the Pharmaceutical Evaluation of Sandalwood Nut Oil. Danny is supervised by Prof. V.B. Sutherland, Dr Yandi Liu and Prof. J.E.D. Fox.

Wescorp has closely monitored the rapid increase in supply of Western Australian Sandalwood nuts sourced from maturing trees in plantations. It is now believed that on average over 500 tonnes of nuts are produced from plantations in Western Australia every year, this figure will continue to grow as more plantations are established and continue to mature.

Wescorp are keen to enter into agreements with Western Australian Sandalwood growers looking to sell nuts, for further information please contact Grant Pronk at Wescorp at grant@wescorp.com.au