To meet fencing panel demand, Forest Garden has invested in additional sawmill and treatment facilities in mid-Wales, potentially doubling its output in the region.
The move, said the company is in response to the unprecedented fence panel demand, as a result of the storms through late 2013 and into 2014. The additional sawmill facilities will support its existing Sennybridge, Mid-Wales site and aims to double the company's sawmill output in that region.

Forest Garden believes the new addition strengthens Forest's position as the only UK fencing manufacturer with its own sawmills and will enable its customers to significantly grow market share in a year of huge fencing demand.

The investment has also increased timber treatment capacity, adding an additional pressure treatment plant to add to the facilities already operated at the group's Lockerbie sawmill and M&M Timber sites. This new facility will enable Forest to offer increased volumes of products in both green and brown pressure treatment.

Talking about the investment, Forest's sales and marketing director John Gomersall said: "This investment is very timely, in that we are able to immediately ramp up production levels to increase our stock holding of sawn timber material and finished products well in advance of any possible adverse winter weather, similar to that experienced at the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014. This, in turn, enables us to make significant commitments to our customers in terms of the levels of stock we will hold on their behalf."