SR Timber has invested in a new corporate video which summarises, in just four minutes, the steps involved in “producing its quality timber products for the construction market.”
SR Timber states that its commitment to excellence starts with the foundation of a strong and experienced sole sawmill partner in Latvia, which is billed as a crucial pillar in ensuring consistency in the quality of all its timber products and especially for its flagship offering, the trademarked PREMIUM GOLD® batten.
This new video showcases the detailed production process, from when a log is felled to the final product. PREMIUM GOLD® graded roofing batten is said to meet all the requirements of British Standards in quality, and the product is independently 3rd party audited and certified.
Importantly, the batten is not only graded in its board form but each piece is also graded in a second process. Initially, all boards are kiln-dried, ensuring correct moisture content and automated checks are then made against detailed characteristics and possible defects.
These include possible decay or insect attack, correct dimensions, the slope of grain – for strength, and knot sizing forecast for the finished product. The second grading process follows BS 5534 requirements, grading the final product and each piece of roofing batten. These final checks are made at commercial speed, covering the size of knots, wane, resin pockets, and distortion and ensure that each produced piece conforms to BS 5534.
The video summarises the process from forest to delivery, and that includes the important part played by the firm’s shipping and stevedoring partners, billed as the backbone of its seamless logistics. They facilitate the loading and sailing of vessels from Riga in Latvia to the port of Immingham on the Humber in addition to Cardiff in South Wales.
Whilst SR Timber says it has built its reputation on the expertise it brings in producing its PREMIUM GOLD® timber roofing batten, it also sells a range of specialist timber used in construction such as fire retardant graded batten, counter battens, arris rail, firrings, mop stick, carcassing, cedar shingles, scaffold boards, Orientated Strand Board (OSB), plywood and sheet materials, selling its products through building, timber and roofing merchants across the country.
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SR Timber has decades of experience in producing and supplying timber construction products from roofing battens to high-end cedar shingles and carcassing material. A leading UK importer of graded roofing batten, supplying sustainably sourced slow-grown timber and offering a 60-year warranty across its full range of graded roofing battens, the firm works with the largest roofing batten production mill in Europe which means it can “control the consistency of quality of all its timber batten products and all its products are either FSC or PEFC fully certified.”
