Description

York Timber Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the forestry, sawmilling, plywood, wholesale, and hospitality industry businesses. It operates through four segments: Processing Plants, Forestry and Fleet, Wholesale, and Agricultural. The Processing Plants segment operates four sawmills, which produces and sells a range of structural and industrial sawn timber products; and a plywood plant that offers plywood timber products. The Forestry and Fleet segment owns plantations, which grows pine and eucalyptus trees in the Mpumalanga Province; and engages in the provision of fleet solutions that owns heavy motor vehicles that are used to transport logs. This segment sells its products to processing segment and external customers. The Wholesale segment operates five distribution centers, which sells timber-related products from the sawmills, plywood plants, and external suppliers in Germiston, Polokwane, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, Durban, and Cape Town. The Agricultural segment owns land with avocados, citrus and macadamias orchards, fruit packaging facility, and lumber and pallet plants. The company was formerly known as The York Timber Organisation Limited and changed its name to York Timber Holdings Limited in May 2009. York Timber Holdings Limited was incorporated in 1916 and is headquartered in Sabie, South Africa.