Supplying Timber Issue 9 0 - Autumn 2025 - Flipbook - Page 16
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Metsä uni昀椀es UK timber o昀昀ering
Metsä Fibre and Metsä Wood
customers faster and more e昀케ciently,
UK have announced that, since
while maintaining its product
1 July 2025, sales of all Metsä
speci昀椀cations, quality, technical
Sawn Timber products in England,
performance, and Nordic supply chain.
Scotland and Wales are being
Metsä Fibre will maintain its role in
handled by Metsä Wood UK.
the comprehensive development
The switch is part of the company’s
“One Metsä” commitment to serve
Sales Director of Metsä Fibre.
James Davenport, Managing Director
of customer cooperation in the UK
market, which will continue to be
managed by Jaakko Keronen, Area
of Metsä Wood UK, said: “By bringing
sales and customer service closer to
our UK customers, we can streamline
communication, shorten lead times
and improve the overall experience,
while keeping the same product
quality and sustainable Nordic supply
chain.
“Customers will continue to receive
the FSC (FSC-C002102) and PEFC
(PEFC/02-33-21) certi昀椀ed timber they
country team focused solely on the UK
market,” added Ricardo Bartley, Head
of Sawn Timber Sales UK.
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PRODUCT ROUND UP
metsawood
Arbor Forest Products invests in
sustainable baling and packaging
Arbor Forest Products has
to making the very best use
launched 'Wood & Slumber' –
of every part of the timber
investing in cutting-edge
we process. Wood & Slumber
baling and packaging
is turning what was once
technology to create softwood
processed and packed by others
small 昀氀ake equine bedding.
into a valuable premium product
The bedding, which is produced
carrying Arbor’s own branding.
from sustainably sourced pine
“We’ve invested in the
and spruce timber, is processed
technology and the processing
in Arbor’s sawmill operations
infrastructure to produce a
located within the company's
bedding solution that’s clean,
90-acre site in New Holland,
consistent, and sustainable.”
Lincolnshire.
The £2 million investment
Wood & Slumber o昀昀ers a
in baling and packaging
softwood small-昀氀ake shaving
technology sees the product
Arbor currently produces upward of
made entirely from sterile, kiln
processed on-site using
15,000 tonnes of wood shavings each
dried, 100% sustainable wood,
the latest sieving and dust
year: the equivalent of around 750,000
a by-product of Arbor’s core
extraction systems to ensure a
bales. Wood & Slumber represents a
timber processing operations.
consistently high-quality dust-
multi-million-pound increase in value
extracted product. It also meets
to Arbor of this valuable by-product.
Phil Yell, Operations Director
at Arbor Forest Products, said:
“At Arbor, we’re committed
all the latest stringent hygiene,
www.arborforestproducts.co.uk/
safety and environmental
wood-and-slumber
standards.
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trust, now backed by a dedicated in
Image: All Metsä
Sawn Timber products
in England, Scotland
and Wales are now
being handled by
Metsä Wood UK.
