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Product Range

View our extensive  range of standard and long length constructional hardwoods for a diverse range of applications.

Sawmilling Services

Find out more about the different services we offer, such as bespoke cutting or profiling.

case studies

View examples of typical value-add sawmilling which we do on site.

Sustainability

Sustainability is the core of good forestry practice and at the heart of our company buying policy.

The Timber Specialists

Gilmour & Aitken Ltd are suppliers and stock holders of a comprehensive range of high quality hardwoods and softwood timber products for a wide range of applications including JoineryMarine and Civil Engineering, Oil and Gas and Railway Industries.   Established in 1852 and now in its 5th generation, the business prides itself on its product expertise, stock range and customer service.

We operate across many different sectors

  • Timber merchants and sawmillers of rough sawn timber to Joinery Market,
  • Constructional timbers to the civil engineering market ,
  • Heavy constructional timbers supplying Sea Defence schemes and Ports and Harbors‘,
  • Heavy constructional timbers to the Marine Engineering sector,
  • Railway Timbers for Longitudinal Beams and Bridge Deck Timbers,
  • Oil and Gas Industry Launch runners,
  • Windfarm Engineering Timbers
  • Boatbuilding timbers, where the business began.

We operate across many different sectors

marine timbers

Joinery Hardwoods Timbers

Gilmour & Aitken ltd offers both rough sawn joinery hardwoods and softwoods for the UK market.  We also offer a range of profiledlaminated and ThermoWood timbers.

Our  Joinery Tropical Hardwood and Softwood timbers are sourced from highly sustainable, productive, naturally regenerating healthy forests of West Africa and Malaysia.

  • Meranti
  • Sapele
  • Utile
  • Iroko
  • Ayan
sustainable log tagging

Our commitment to sustainability

Sustainability is at the heart of well managed tropical forestry as the forests are managed for the future. There is no clearfell in tropical forestry, this is conversion to agriculture or domestic pressures. Reduced Impact Logging is widely practiced in Tropical Forestry which helps to minimise damage to the standing forest. Well managed tropical forestry contributes to 14 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Timber Industry in itself is a huge Environmental Social Governance Driver.

We have both certified timbers and UKTR compliant well managed forests timbers.

Specialist Joinery Softwoods

Our Specialist Joinery Softwoods are sourced from mature well managed forests in North America and Europe.

Specialist joinery softwoods are used for interior joinery in the main.  From skirtings, facings, stairs, windows doors, linings, panelling and traditional shutters.  Clear timbers are typically required for these end uses to give a clean finish.

  • Clear Douglas Fir from North America.
  • Larch
  • Southern Yellow Pine
  • Quebec Yellow Pine
  • Parana Pine
  • Pitch Pine from Honduras which has UKTR.

These timbers are sourced from forests which are responsibly felled, managed under the American forestry with PEFC certification available on some species.

sustainable log tagging

Our commitment to sustainability

Sustainability is at the heart of well managed tropical forestry as the forests are managed for the future. There is no clearfell in tropical forestry, this is conversion to agriculture or domestic pressures. Reduced Impact Logging is widely practiced in Tropical Forestry which helps to minimise damage to the standing forest. Well managed tropical forestry contributes to 14 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Timber Industry in itself is a huge Environmental Social Governance Driver.

We have both certified timbers and UKTR compliant well managed forests timbers.

marine timbers

Construction Marine & Engineering Tropical Timbers

Gilmour & Aitken Ltd is the UKs largest stock holder and sawmiller of Guyanese Greenheart a D70 Class 1 timber typically used in sea defence schemes and heavy engineering applications.

We also hold considerable stocks of other constructional timbers such as Ekki, another D70 Class 1 timber and D50 Opepe, softwoods Douglas Fir and Larch.

Our talented sawmilling team offer bespoke milling and cut to individual orders.  From large public sector contracts, to small one off hardwood orders.  We offer flexibility and enjoy the variation of jobs that come our way.

Our tropical constructional timbers are sourced from highly sustainable, productive naturally regenerating healthy forests of Guyana, West Africa and Malaysia.  We have both certified timbers and UKTR well managed forests compliant timbers and can track back to the log with our audit trail.

Sustainability is at the heart of well managed tropical forestry as the forests are managed for the future.   There is no clearfell in tropical forestry, this is conversion to agriculture or domestic pressures.

Our commitment to sustainability

Sustainability is at the heart of well managed tropical forestry as the forests are managed for the future. There is no clearfell in tropical forestry, this is conversion to agriculture or domestic pressures. Reduced Impact Logging is widely practiced in Tropical Forestry which helps to minimise damage to the standing forest. Well managed tropical forestry contributes to 14 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Timber Industry in itself is a huge Environmental Social Governance Driver.

We have both certified timbers and UKTR compliant well managed forests timbers.

sustainable log tagging

Constructional Softwood Timbers

Douglas Fir & Larch are the two main constructional Softwood Timbers.   Typically used in boat building, marine fenders, posts and bridges these timbers are naturally durable.

Treatment can be applied if required.

Laminated Timbers 

Lamination is the process of forming multiple sheets solid timber and bonded together by very strong adhesives, to produce rigid, fixed dimension structures.

There are several types of lamination available and G&A offers a range of products in both Oak, Meranti and Sapele.

Profiled Timbers 

Profiled timbers is where timber has been machined to create a ready to use interior door or window framing timber, cladding or skirting board.   

G&A offer this in Meranti, Oak Veneered, Decking boards in Balau, Redwood and Keruing Half Flap.

Ayous ThermoWood Timbers 

New stock in 2022, these Ayous Thermowood Timbers are thermally treated Central African softwood timbers which during the 100% natural heating process which is done via biomass heating, cell changes make the timber more durable.   These timbers are a good alternative to Western Red Cedar or the now unavailable Siberian Larch cladding timbers.

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