Timber iQ October - November 2018 // Issue: 40 | Page 11

NEWS
Tradelink brings new board
products to SA
Tradelink Wood Products recently launched its board products
to the local timber market.
Tradelink Wood Products has welcomed its range of boards to the South African market.
D
edicated to procuring, shipping, manufacturing,
warehousing and marketing hardwoods, plywood
and allied timber products, Tradelink Wood
Products of the Tradelink Group is proud to introduce
its range of board products to the South African
timber industry.
“We are extremely excited to launch our board
products in South Africa with our Russian birch plywood;
OSB; MDF and HDF board; as well as various other
plywoods,” says Herman Schey, Tradelink Group CEO.
Established in London in 1989, the group has grown
over the decades to include sales offices located in
Canada, China, France, Portugal, South Africa, the UK and
the US. With a network of procurement offices in South
America, North America, Malaysia, Singapore and China,
the company can source quality wood products at
competitive prices.
The company prides itself on the beauty of birch plywood.
“Birch ply has for a long time been widely accepted as one of
the world’s greatest plywoods. The standard nominal veneer
for the core of birch plywood is 1.4mm thick, which produces
a highly engineered panel offering superior stability and
product integrity.
“Birch plywood is made up of multiple layers of relatively
thin veneers resulting in a higher glue content for any given
thickness compared to plywood panels. This gives birch
plywood excellent physical and mechanical properties such
as strength, stiffness, wear and impact resistance,”
highlights Schey.
Tradelink is hell-bent on following best practise. “Our
responsible purchasing policy and compliance division enables
Tradelink to comply with the EU and US environmental
legislation and we apply the same procedures for wood
products imported into South Africa,” concludes Schey.
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