It's two-fold.A dedicated team of six Sales Area Managers who manage customers in all sales aspects within a geographical region. Internally,BSW have three sales managers based in Fort William, Carlisle and Newbridge along with the full support of their team ensure that all customer requirements are met on a day to day basis.

All BSW UK produced products have FSC accreditation,which means they are all made from professionally managed and sustainable sources.We take our environmental and social responsibility extremely seriously and we are committed to developing our business towards ecological, social and economic sustainability. Therefore we will only develop log supply from local and well managed sources that are FSC accredited.

Strength grading is undertaken primarily to provide timber of sufficient strength for a particular function,e.g.a floor joist or a roof truss. At the same time strength grading helps to ensure that both the design and the timber sizes specified are economical.

BSW produce strength graded timber to specifications laid down
in British Standards - BS4978 for visual grading and BS EN 519 for machine grading.Timber is graded to strength classes.The most commonly specified grade for softwood carcassing is C16.

Timber is loaded into treatment vessel and an initial vacuum
applied which evacuates the timber cells of air.The cylinder is flooded under vacuum with TANALITH? E wood preservative. Hydraulic pressure is applied,which forces the preservative deep into the structure of the timber.A final vacuum extracts the excess preservative solution,which is pumped back to storage. BSW offer timber treated with either a green or brown finish.

Pressure treated timber is protected against fungal (rot) and insect attack to ensure a long service life.

BSW Timber utilise pressure treatment plants at our sawmills.
We now use the latest generation of wood preservative,TANALITH E,which is approved and used in over 30 countries worldwide. TANALITH E provides a unique,highly effective preservative protection system for timber based on copper triazole technology. The copper is derived from recycled resources and is well known for its fungicidal and insecticidal properties.The triazoles (tebuconazole and propiconazole) are commonly used to protect many of the crops we eat.

The timber is pushed into either batch or progressive kilns on railed bogies.The difference between the two types of kilns involves the static positioning of the stacks within the batch chambers,with the temperature and humidity changing through the drying cycle.In the progressive chamber the kiln packs move forward approximately every 5 hours through changing humidity and temperature.The sequence of changes is called a kiln schedule and the operators use different schedules for different sizes and species of wood.

• Dimensional stability and less risk of distortion
• Fungi and moulds cannot survive on dry timber
• Improved penetration of preservatives
• Smoother finish after machining
• Improved performance of finishes such as paints and stains
• Improved insulation
• Improved strength
• Lighter weight

To achieve the specification moisture content required for structural dry graded timber;and to supply dry pallet timber for the food and paper industry.

An automated process that uses heat and airflow in a controlled
environment to remove moisture from sawn timber Timber is loaded into treatment vessel and an initial vacuum