Glennon Brothers has announced the acquisition of the Hereford-based Pontrilas Group, adding £120m of turnover to its business.
Glennon Brothers has announced the acquisition of the Hereford-based Pontrilas Group, adding £120m of turnover to its business.
Founded in 1947 by the Hickman family, the Pontrilas Group is a timber processing business strategically situated on the Welsh border and with an annual sawn capacity believed to be approximately 200,000m3.
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Pontrilas is one of the UK’s leading independent sawmill and packaging businesses, with the Pontrilas mill being the largest timber processing mill in England and Wales. With a team of over 530 people, it is led by an experienced long serving management team and has a turnover of £120m.
“We are delighted to welcome the Pontrilas Group into the Glennon Brothers family,” said Glennon Brothers joint managing director Mike Glennon.
“This is a significant milestone in Glennon Brothers history, which dates back to 1913. This provides our customers with an enhanced product and service offering, as well as increased overall production capacity for the future. This acquisition allows us to continue fulfilling our commitment to our customers of offering a one stop shop solution for sawn softwood across the UK and Ireland”.
“The opportunity to add value to our established supply chain and core business is extremely exciting,” added joint managing director Pat Glennon.
“By adding Pontrilas to our existing business, it further enhances our capability to operate fully from forest to front door”.
Pontrilas chairman Jeremy Hickman said he and the Hickman family were pleased to wish Glennon Brothers and the Pontrilas Group every success in the future, while Jonathan Poynton, Pontrilas’s CEO, said “the team at Pontrilas are delighted to be joining the Glennon Brothers family of companies, and we look forward to exciting times ahead for the enlarged business”.
Source TTJ
Pontrilas Merchants are a family owned business with strong family values and part of the Pontrilas Group of Companies offering all your timber and building supplies from a new purpose build 6 acre site, everything from C24 Timber to Screws.
With 5 generations of experience in the timber industry, today the group take logs from the forest all the way to machined finished kiln dried timber. As well as home grown timber Pontrilas Merchants source specialist timbers from around the world. Timbers can be cut and pressure treated in our own facility to meet customers’ specific requirements.
Over the last 5 years a lot of money has been invested into modernising and expanding the Pontrilas Sawmills. The state of the art sawmilling facility has the capacity to cut, mould/plane, kiln dry, treat and grade timber.
The kilns are powered by a biomass boiler, using carbon neutral waste products from the sawmill to dry our timber.
Source TTJ
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