RE: Descent into helle's not over25 Jul 2024 14:32
The article is completely st odds with regulatory updates:
“So far in 2024 whilst implementing new management, procedures, procurement, replacing equipment and maintenance the Group was still able to maintain daily production around H1 2023 levels, with the sawmill averaging 37 m3/working day and in the veneer factory averaging 18 m3/working day. The operations are being readied for a planned major and sustainable increase to record levels in the second half of 2024.
The Company is completing final legal documentation for a new $5m trade finance facility on better terms than envisaged when provisionally announced in February 2024. Further announcements will be made in due course when the Company executes the trade finance facility. The Company is also exploring further working capital financing options to enable it to upgrade machinery, introduce a second shift, secure certification and for general purposes.
Sale of Mozambique Operations
Further to the statement dated 13 March 2024 and as part of its reorganization and focus on profitability, the Group has completed a Sale Agreement ("SA") for all the legal entities associated with its Mozambique operations to a local purchaser. These operations accounted for less than 1 per cent. of Group turnover and net assets for the year ended 31 December 2022. The consideration of $1.0m is payable in installments, through to mid-2030. There is also a sliding scale share of any follow-on sales proceeds of up to 80% of the uplift in value if on-sold by the buyer within two years of the SA date.“