York Timber Holdings Limited ("York") is a forest products enterprise. The company was incorporated in 1916 and has been listed on the JSE since 1946.
York provides strategic, administrative and technical management to its
subsidiaries. Its main operating subsidiary, York Timbers Limited, operates in
various markets, domestic and overseas, and in various sectors of the timber
trade and industry. The core business of the group is sawmilling. Our log mills
convert round softwood into a wide range of sawn lumber products such as
structural timber, scaffolding, furniture components, wood laminates, kitchen
cupboard parts, brush and broom handles as well as wood chips for pulp and
paper. We market sawn lumber to the construction, furniture, packaging and other
industries, as well as to timber merchants generally, partly through a network
of independent timber agents.
- 61 000 planted hectares of certified plantation forests of which 56 000 hectares are pine and 5 000 hectares are eucalyptus.
- 5 sawmills, located in Sabie, Graskop, White River and Jessievale.
- A plywood plant in Sabie.
In addition, the company owns 28,000 hectares of unplanted land reserved for conservation, streams, natural heritage sites, roads and access routes.
York Land Utilisation
| 28 000 hectares: Conservation, natural heritage sites and roads |
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| 58 000 hectares: Plantable Pine areas |
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| 6 000 hectares: Plantable Eucalyptus area |
