How we can assist merchants
We stock and service local and national timber merchants, we value our relationship with merchants small and large and will always work closely to meet your timber requirements.
Full or mixed loads
Direct loads
FSC® and PEFC certified
Our partnerships
Our key strength is a robust supply chain, with products from a range of suppliers and locations, providing year-round access to our diverse range of products.
Kronospan
Murray Timber Group
GP Wood
Thomson Sawmills LTD
Composite Prime
For over 30 years, Taylor Maxwell have sold the sawmill output from the Kronospan site in Chirk, Wrexham. Products from this sawmill are unseasoned and principally go into the fencing and pallet manufacturing sectors.
Key features include:
- FSC® certified
- 3.0m and 3.6m Spruce and Redwood logs
- Fencing and pallet sizes
- Flexible cutting sizes
- 10,000m3 sawn volume produced per year
Murray Timber Group is a family-run business, established in 1977. Operations are spread across two production facilities in Ballygar County Galway and Ballon in County Carlow, Eire, with world class processing facilities capable of processing in excess of 1,000,000m3 of logs per year.
Key features include:
Construction timber sold under the SNR brand/logo
Planed and eased-edge C16 carcassing
Mini packs and barcoding options
High pressure (green/brown) and low pressure (blue) treatment options
KD/ISPM15 products
FSC® certified
GP Wood is one of Ireland’s largest suppliers of sawn softwood. They operate from two sawmills in County Cork, Eire and produce products for the fencing, landscaping, construction and pallet/packaging sectors. Their annual sawn output is circa 250,000m3 per year.
Key features include:
Feather-edge and fencing sections produced
Heat-Treatment/ISPM 15 and kiln dried products
C16/CLS production
Preservative treatment
FSC® certified
Established in 1982, Thomson sawmills are a family-run sawmilling business based near Norwich, UK. They are a specialist fencing and landscaping sawmill, producing a wide range of sections and sizes, with the ability to secondary process their products and offer treatment options including Use Class 4 (UC4) treated timber.
Key features include:
Kiln dried UC4 Redwood
Green and brown treatment
Weathered posts
Automated notching
FSC® certified
Pallet boards
Established in 2014, Composite Prime is the fastest growing composite brand in the UK. Taylor Maxwell stock Composite Prime products in Woodbridge (England) and Stirling (Scotland) for distribution to our UK merchant customers.
Key features include:
UK based stocks for quick delivery
FSC® certified
Online stockist locator
3D deck-builder software
Product warranty
Rewards scheme
Our locations and partnerships span across Europe
Through a combination of our sales and customer service offices, stock locations and key manufacturing partners, we are able to work with merchant and manufacturing customers across the UK.
Our supply is heavily focused toward the UK, Sweden, The Baltics and the rest of the EU, however, we also import specialist products from North America and China.
Industry news
Our monthly e-newsletters provide key timber industry updates and information we think our customers will find useful, from changes in conversion rates and how Brexit is affecting the market, to key product launches and fun timber related facts!
Timber Development UK (TDUK) reports weaker volumes during Q1 this year compared to last year. Despite this, import volumes are ...
Timber Packaging and Pallet Confederation (TIMCON) reported in their e-bulletin earlier this month that the pallet and packaging industry output ...
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