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REGISTERED SCOPE
 
 

The registered scope of the Council comprises the activities in the whole of the Republic of South Africa of the industries identified and described as follows:

DESCRIPTION OF INDUSTRIES

 

A.             FIBRE AND PARTICLE BOARD

The manufacture of wood and bagasse based fibreboard and particleboard panels in both raw and upgraded form and including the upgrading of such product by the application of the same and/or other material and includes incidental activities.
 

B.             SAWMILLING INDUSTRY

(a)      The processing of timber or logs to lumber, beams, planks, baulks, sleepers, wedges or other standard forms by removing the bark, splitting, cutting up, sawing, drying, planning or conversion of such timber or logs in any other manner and includes the treatment of any of the said articles by heat or chemicals where such treatment is carried on in conjunction with any of the aforesaid activities and includes incidental activities.

(b)      The manufacture of wood-wool, boxes, shooks, mine supports, trays, crates or other articles of which wood constitutes the main component; and includes incidental activities.

(c)       This industry excludes the following activities where such activities do not take place together with any other activities mentioned in (a) -

(i)               Joinery;

(ii)              The manufacture of wagons, carts and boats;

(iii)            The manufacture of coffins;

(iv)            The manufacture of plywood, veneers, veneered boards, laminated boards, block boards, chip boards or any similar products of which wood forms the main component;

(v)             The manufacture of containers or components of containers that are intended or used for the packing or marketing of agricultural products.

(d)     Sawmilling as defined in (a) above is not included in the scope of this Bargaining Council when it is carried out in an establishment, the principal activity of which is the manufacture of wooden furniture and in which concern the lumber, planks, etc. produced from their own sawmilling activity are processed further into furniture.

C.             PULP AND PAPER

The manufacture of pulp, paper, dissolving pulp and paper board and includes incidental activities.

 

D.             TISSUE AND ALLIED PRODUCTS

The production or conversion and distribution of tissue, absorbent, infant and adult and feminine care products of any nature whatsoever, including the work encompassed in designated trades, together with the occupations and operations incidental thereto, whether or not the said trades, occupations and/or operations are carried out separately or collectively and includes incidental activities.  

?2007 National Bargaining Council for the Wood and Paper Sector