Manufacturing

Insight into the manufacturing process

Our manudacturing is carried out according to customer requirements, observing high quality requirements.

Delivery

Sawlogs are delivered to the sawmill

Logs are moved to log sorting line where grading and measuring is done electronically by scanners and computer program. Sorted logs are transported to log yard stacks.

Delivery

Sawlog processing

Saw logs are processed into planks

Production line ensures full production cycle for log, producing different types of boards and battens for further production

Sawlog processing

Board processing

The boards are processed into battens

Boards are being planned in multi-head 4 side planning machine and split by ripsaws into roofing battens.

Board processing

Sorting

The battens are carefully sorted.

Battens are graded by standard BS 5534:2014+A2:2018 quality requirements

Sorting

Treatment

The battens are delivered for treatment

All ready production is being treated in treatment tanks in Port Magnat and KS Terminal using Vacsol Aqua or Tanalith chemicals

Treatment

Export

The battens are loaded and exported

All ready production before loading on vessels is stored in Port territory and later loaded to vessels to ports Goole, Cardiff, Shoreham and other ports according specifications.

Export

We are a WPA Benchmark Approved (TW) Treater and supply WPA Benchmark Approved (TW) Products

The WPA Benchmark (TW) Quality Approval Scheme is administered by the UK Wood Protection Association (WPA). It relates specifically to the durability of wood and wood based materials pretreated by an industrial process.

As an Approved Treater our treatment plant(s) have been subject to audit and shown to have robust systems in place which demonstrate we are capable of producing correctly treated material under the terms of the WPA Benchmark scheme.

Our Approved Products* are those for which the production process has been subject to audit and
for which the penetration and retention of preservative, as required in the WPA Code of Practice, has also been assured by direct testing or by safe relationship testing.

(*itemised on our WPA Benchmark accreditation certificate.)

Learn more here: www.thewpa.org.uk/quality-schemes