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Growing Responsibly

Evergreen Forestry is a vertically-integrated, sustainably-focused forestry company managing seven pine and eucalyptus properties in the KZN Midlands, totalling over 6,500 hectares. Evergreen Forestry grows its own trees for pulp and sawmilling, with an increasing focus on delivering quality pine logs for the sawmilling value chain.

We employ more than 50 full-time employees who have been instrumental in delivering our vision of being recognised as South Africa’s best privately-owned forestry company.

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Evergreen Holdings has been involved in the timber industry for over two decades. Evergreen Forestry was established to centralise and improve management of the company’s seven estates located across the KZN Midlands.

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We’re committed to maximising the value of our trees while maintaining best practice in every area of our business. Through  regular inspection of our forests, data collection, digital workflow management and a defined ‘Evergreen Way’, we’re building a reputation for excellence in South African private forestry.

Sustainable Stewardship

Evergreen’s founders are conservationists, and this commitment filters through to the way we manage our forests. We understand that ecology and community are inseparable. We strive to protect and grow the diversity of wildlife on every property and refrain from practices that harm the environment. 

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Giant's Castle - 4,060ha

Inhluzani - 841.71ha

Hlabeni - 347.55ha

Reicheneau - 177.61ha

Redlands - 576.05ha

Mzalanyoni - 84.15ha

My View - 360.95ha

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BY THE NUMBERS

Hectares
6000
Tons PA
42000
staff
41

OUR GIANT’S CASTLE ESTATE

Yorkville Estate is Evergreen Forestry’s 4,060 hectare plantation, set in the picturesque Giant’s Castle in the KZN Drakensberg. The estate was acquired in 2019 and currently has over 2,800 hectares under pine and eucalyptus. The estate features four trout dams and has a 3km stretch of the Berg River as one boundary, with a wealth of flora and fauna.

What we do to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

– Chris Maser

TECHNOLOGY

MicroForest, Evergreen’s bespoke forestry app

MicroForest is a technology platform developed in-house at Evergreen to ensure that every square metre of the company’s 6,500 hectares of forest are properly managed.

Three years in the making, MicroForest combines several different map types with GPS and a communication suite to allow our team on site to pinpoint locations, share information and manage workflow to get problems resolved.

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My View – 360.95ha

Evergreen Forestry

Evergreen Forestry is a vertically integrated, sustainably focused forestry company managing seven plantations across the KZN Midlands. Evergreen Forestry grows its own trees for pulp and sawmilling, with an increasing focus on the sawmilling value chain.

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EVERGREEN FORESTRY IN NUMBERS

58

Permanent staff

4900ha

Hectares under management

200,000m³

Annual softwood production
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