To give a little more background into where
some of our products come from and the kind
of sawmills those suppliers operate, we thought
it would be good to have a bit of focus in the
newsletter. Our largest supplier is Windymains,
part of the Glennon group, who supply us
with a wide range of our sawn products. The
Glennon group have been operating since 1913
and now operate a number of different sawmill
and processing sites, following rapid expansion
over the last century. These mills operate on a
completely different scale to us and some of the
figures are mind-boggling.
Across the group they have a total sawn
capacity of 500,000m3 per year and a kiln
drying capacity of 220,000m3 per year! The
Windymains site is responsible for just over
100,000m3 of that annual figure, of which we
purchased over 2600m3 just through the last
year…By comparison, our sawmill can produce
approximately 4000m3 of sawn timber per
year.
It’s easy to look at those figures and wonder
why we bother to do what we do, but there are
many benefits to running our own mill and
many more ways we can further improve on our
current production capabilities. We might not
be competing with the ‘big boys’, but we can still
hold our own and run alongside them.
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