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Meet Africa’s true Big Five sawmills

Wood-Mizer’s Big Five sawmills in Africa are built for our tough sawmillers, engineered to handle various timber processing needs.  LT15 – The king of the jungle One of these ...

24 Jun 2025 · 3 min read

Wood-Mizer Africa: Powering at NAMPO Harvest Day 2025

As the golden heartland of South African agriculture comes alive once again at the NAMPO Harvest Day in Bothaville, Wood-Mizer Africa stands tall as a symbol of innovation, sustainabilit...

22 May 2025 · 2 min read

Duva Timbers continues its robust growth path

Owner of Duva Timbers, 25-year-old Pieter van der Linde, sidesteps log supply shortages with the recent purchase of timber assets to close the log shortfall and ensure the sawmill’s fu...

1 Apr 2025 · 6 min read

Sawmilling in the sheltered shades of the Shire

The magnificent Amatalo Mountain range is the perfect backdrop to the Shire Group's successes to date, its diversified product portfolio lending heavily off founder Rob Scott's sustainab...

10 Dec 2024 · 7 min read

Zambian mine improves profits sustainably

In terms of its natural and mineral resources, Africa is the richest continent in the world. This wealth of resources can serve as an engine for growth and development of Africa’s econ...

18 Oct 2024 · 6 min read

Sawmilling in Africa – Scierie Krishna in the DRC.

“I realized there was money in wood when I saw the first Wood-Mizer sawmill cutting a log,” says Krishna Wood Sawmill MD, Jinajunga Borisomoya.   The former transport company ow...

20 Aug 2024 · 3 min read

Sawmilling in the shadow of the dragon

The southern slopes of the Drakensberg or Dragon Mountain range in the Eastern Cape Province, is home to New Heights Sawmill and a Wood-Mizer sawmill line that governs the mill’s outpu...

15 Jul 2024 · 6 min read

Wood-Mizer sawmill line unlocks rubberwood opportunity in Liberia

A highly productive sawmill in Liberia is using Wood-Mizer technology to turn large diameter rubberwood trees that have reached the end of their latex production cycle into export qualit...

30 May 2024 · 7 min read

It starts and ends with numbers

The growth of a sawmill from start-up status in 2009 to now supplying major hardware's across SA's Limpopo Province shows the potential that sawmilling holds and how emerging sawmillers ...

7 May 2024 · 6 min read

Roadside trader becomes inspired sawmiller 

A sawmill near Moria in South Africa’s Limpopo Province is the backdrop for an extraordinary business success story that is still unfolding.    The road from Polokwane to Roadsi...

28 Feb 2024 · 7 min read
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