Timber iQ February - March 2020 // Issue: 48 | Page 31

Selati Roof Trusses Selati Roof Trusses manufactures and supplies timber roof trusses with all associated roofing materials to the building industry. By MiTek The Selati Group's doors were opened in 1963 as a hardware store and has grown into a highly successful business specialising in the structural (roofing) timber industry with two major divisions. S elati De Hoek Sawmill manufactures and supplies structural SATAS/SABS Grade-, and Selati Grade SA Pine timber to the construction market. Selati Roof Trusses manufactures and supplies timber roof trusses with all associated roofing materials to the building industry. DE HOEK SAWMILL The whole timber process and the core of Selati’s business starts in the picturesque mountains of Tzaneen and Magoebaskloof. Here, SA pine trees are harvested and well looked after. They are also properly managed for 18 to 25 years. As sad as it is to witness the harvesting of 25-year-old trees, it is truly one of the few 100% renewable products on the market and is thus the reason we have implemented our ‘Green’ harvesting methods. Once the tree is in the ground, log cleaning takes place to determine the best possible length to be cut. These logs are transported from the various plantations to Selati’s De Hoek Sawmill’s log yard. Selati’s policy of Maximum Timber Recovery is at the core of their entire process, and this starts in the yard where the logs www.timberiq.co.za PROJECT // FEBRUARY / MARCH 2020 29