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To be South Africa’s preferred supplier of premium grade pine timber.
To process all available structural and pruned grade pine sawlogs into premium quality structural and furniture grade timber products for sale to the market through providing industry leading quality and service.
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Rance Timber manufactures four broad timber product categories:
Other products manufactured include the following:
Rance Timber operates its own harvesting and transport of Pine, Eucalyptus and Wattle species. The Harvesting operations are motor manual and very labour intensive, where felling of trees, chocking of logs and log making is done manually. Chainsaw operators fell, de-branch and present trees infield ready for extraction to roadside. Extraction of the trees from infield is done using cables skidders, skylines and tractors. Once on roadside the trees are manually made into logs and stacked according to diameter and length by bell loggers. Once stacked according to specifications the logs are then ready for collection, which is done using logging trucks. The trucks are loaded using a combination of bell loggers and self-loading cranes. The logs are transported to the sawmills where they are offloaded onto the logdecks to be mechanically debarked and processed through the sawmills.
The Harvesting and transport operations take place in challenging terrain areas and almost all operations take place on narrow gravel roads. As a result weather and accessibility to both logs and sawmills is challenging for the operation. To overcome these challenges Rance Timber and AFC owns and operates its own road making and maintenance team to maintain and service all of the 1250km of forestry roads within the AFC estate to make the accessibility of logs possible as required for the saw milling operations.
The Technical Support function to this whole operation is done by the company's in house workshop. Rance Timber is a vertically integrated business allowing for maximum flexibility to give its customers valued service and quality.
The state plantations in the Amathole region were bundled into a forestry package under Amathole Forestry Company (AFC), which owns the plantations and leases the plantation land from the state.
Rance Timber and its black economic empowerment partners were successful on public tender in purchasing a majority shareholding in AFC (Amathole Forestry Company) in 2005. However 40% of the state plantations in the Amathole region had been destroyed by runaway fires prior to privatisation, which resulted in disruption of log supplies. Thereafter AFC's primary focus was the stabilisation of the industry in the Amathole region, prevention of fires and the rehabilitation of the plantations. These goals have been achieved with great success - only 8% of the plantations have been destroyed by fire in the eleven years since privatisation and log supplies have been increasing every year.