Charles Ransford & Son

Our business thrives on the success of our customers so we strive to be customer focused, flexible, and responsive to on-site deadlines. Our aim is to provide customers with the best possible service and consistently high quality products. Great products, a service package to match, and a long term commitment to partnerships with our customers. The main species used are Douglas Fir, Larch and Spruce, sourced from sustainably managed UK forests. We produce 42,000m3 per annum of sawn timber – 70% of which is derived from the more naturally durable ‘redwoods’. We have invested more than £10m in this facility in recent years. State of the art German sawing equipment, incorporating 3D laser scanning and optimising technology, combine with sophisticated re-sawing, board recovery and product handling systems to make our process one of the most accurate and efficient operations in the UK. No part of the log is wasted. A peeling line strips the bark before the log is milled and this is then processed into a range of horticultural products. Woodchips generated from the process are dried on site and sold to local farms and nursery businesses who have made the switch to boilers powered by biomass of one kind or another. Sawdust is sold into a variety of markets.