Foresty & Wood Processing

Nile Plywoods (U) Limited, a wood processing company based in Uganda, was acquired by Sarrai Group after going into receivership in 1994. Today the company has grown its Nileply brand to occupy 70% of the wood products market, manufacturing core products such as MDF boards, Plywood, block boards, doors, and particle boards. Staying true to the Group’s vision of sustainable development, Nileply integrated its operations vertically into forest plantation management, with over 15,000 acres planted in Nakasongola and Kamuli. These forests are sustainably managed by planting new saplings sourced from the company’s own nursery gardens across 700 acres year on year. This not only provides the essential sustainable timber supply for the manufacturing process of its different boards but also timber for much-needed creosote and CCA-treated electricity transmission poles.

Nileply has recently extended its production into modern MDF furniture under the brand Nileply Furniture. The furniture-making unit is based in Kampala,
supplying bespoke and production line ready-to-fit furniture and furnishings for homes and offices as well as for the hospitality industry.

Nile Plywoods is a proud employer of over 1,500 people, all of whom are trained on production standards to ensure quality control measures are met gaining the company accreditation by the product standards authority, Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS).

The valuable contribution made by Nile Plywoods towards the industrialization of Uganda has earned it the Presidential Transformer award in 2006. Furthermore, Nileply has won the “Exporter of the Year Award” in the Gold category for two years (2010 and 2011) running and five awards in the silver category in the last five years preceding the Gold awards from the Uganda Exports Promotions Board (UEPB).