New Heights Forest Business Expansion

We are looking to further expand our fast growing business for producing firewood in both wholesale and retail markets, lots of our labour is consumed through the production of timber from cord wood delivered out of the forest into logs which we are then able to package into nets or bulk bags to be seasoned ready for delivery across north wales when required, as our business has expanded in the last couple of years we have invested in machines to keep up with the demand of our existing customers and each year we have been able to take on additional customers both commercial and retail, in 2014 we purchased a machine to produce kindling through request from our existing commercial firewood customers as this was a highly sought after product that was not accessible in the local area and was being purchased from outside of North Wales.

Since investing in this machine we have struggled to keep up with the demand for our new product and our current firewood processor purchased in 2012 doesn’t have the capacity to fulfil our firewood orders not including the timber required for the production of kindling from cordwood, The new Posch S360 increases the capacity to produce logs by over 60% and has the ability to cut rings only for the use through our kindling machine, our current firewood processor involves manually removing of the timber rings to prevent them from being split into logs before entering the conveyor to remove the wood from the machine, this makes the process very slow.

We have invested greatly in our business in the last few years but we require some help taking our business to the next level to keep up with the increasing demand for our products.
 

Project details

Funding amount:
£11,695
Funding source:
Timber Business Investment Scheme
Area:
Conwy
Completion:

Contact:

Name:
Russell Jones
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