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Materials Handling · Plant Hire · Engineering

Materials handling, engineered around your mill.

We manage mills. Particle board, MDF, sawmilling, and pole operations across five provinces of South Africa. Three generations in timber. The machines, the operators, the engineering — all from one accountable team.

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Production machines
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Provinces
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Generations
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Footprint
Who we are

We're a materials-handling company. Not plant hire.

The distinction matters. Plant hire rents machines. We assess how material moves through your mill, design the handling solution around it, adapt or engineer the equipment to fit, and run it with operators we train and a maintenance discipline inherited from three generations in the industry.

We're small and precise by design. Our clients don't want the biggest contractor — they want the one that solves the specific problem in front of them, and then stays to run it.

Equipment is the easy part. Running it properly is the work.

What we do

Three ways we work on your site.

Hire a machine. Hand us the mill. Or commission the equipment that doesn't exist yet. The work is the same — we move your material, your production keeps running.

Milestone wheel loader fleet on hardstand
01 · Plant Hire

Short-term rentals from a managed fleet.

For specific projects, interim capacity, or shorter contracts. Wheel loaders, log loaders, haulage tractors, and hooklift trucks — from the same managed fleet that runs our contract operations.

With or without qualified operators. Fully insured. Maintained to OEM specification. Service intervals are ours to manage, not yours.

The simplest engagement we offer — but it comes with the same operating discipline as everything else we do.

Milestone managing materials handling at a sawmill operation
02 · Mill Management

We run the materials-handling side of your mill.

This is what we're built for. Particle board, MDF, sawmilling, and pole operations — we manage the materials handling end-to-end. Yard logistics, log decks, kiln stacking, chip feed, dispatch — handled.

Dedicated machines and operators on your site, under a structured contract. Fuel, maintenance, parts, SHEQ, operator training, replacement-on-failure — included. One contract, one phone number, one point of accountability.

You set the throughput and the standard. We deliver against it. Every month, a full management pack lands on your desk: fleet health, production, fuel against work done, and SHEQ — so you see how the operation is running, not just hear about it.

Custom materials-handling equipment under fabrication in Milestone workshop
03 · Engineering

Purpose-built machines, for our contract clients.

When the right machine for your operation doesn't exist off the shelf, we engineer one. Custom high-lifts, forklift conversions on wheel-loader chassis, specialised grapples, hooklift configurations — designed around your specific handling problem.

We don't sell engineering as a standalone service. It's part of the contract package — clients who hand us the mill get the equipment built around it. CAD design, OEM-spec review, in-house fabrication, proof-tested before commissioning.

See engineering work →

Latest generation high-lift log loader in commissioning
In operation now

Three iterations of one design, two decades apart.

Our latest-generation high-lift log loader is in commissioning across our operations — the third iteration of a design that's been in continuous service since the late 2000s.

Each generation is informed by the operating data of the one before. What worked. What wore. What could be done better. That's the engineering discipline our contract clients buy into.

See the lineage →

Where we work

Industrial mills where production can't stop.

01

Particle Board & MDF

High-volume yard handling, log and chip operations, plant feed.

02

Sawmilling

Mill yard logistics, log decks, lumber handling, kiln stacking.

03

Canting & Secondary

Secondary processing and intermediate handling.

04

Poles & Forestry

Pole yards, forestry logistics, log deck operations.

Need materials handling that doesn't let you down?

Tell us the mill, the operation, and the timeline. We'll come back within one business day.