YRK · York Timber Holdings Limited

Description

York Timber Holdings Ltd. engages in the plantations, sawmills, a plywood plant, and wholesale lumber sales. It operates through the following segments: Processing Plants, Forestry and Fleet, Wholesale, and Agricultural. The Processing Plants includes sawmilling and plywood divisions, which produces timber-related products.Forestry and Fleet segment owns plantations in Mpumalanga province on which it grows pine and eucalyptus trees that are cultivated and managed on a rotational basis. The Wholesale segment focuses on the distribution centers located in Pretoria, Germiston, Polokwane, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabet, Durban, Upington, and Cape Town, which sell timber-related products from sawmills and plywood plants. Its agricultural segment is involved in farming avocado, citrus and macadamia orchards, a fruit packaging facility and a sawmill that produces lumber and pallets in the Mpumalanga province. The company was founded on June 16, 1916 and is headquartered in Mbombela, South Africa.