6 | REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Halswell Timber - Christchurch Ange Davidson Timber specialist serves growing market Halswell Timber’s premises in Christchurch - the machinery is separated into three sites to ensure the plant can always stay in production. Your True Partners in all packaging requirements. Proudly supporting Halswell Timber www.acepackaging.co.nz | jason@acepackaging.co.nz We have been proudly supporting Halswell Timber. 319 Brougham Street, Christchurch P: 03 365 0907 M: 027 439 7825 Email: info@pyeelectrical.co.nz www.pyeelectrical.co.nz CONNECTING YOU TO THE RIGHT SOLUTION If you’ve tackled a renovation project on an old house, or built a new architectural home, chances are you’re familiar with Halswell Timber. The family-owned business has been supplying retail and commercial customers throughout New Zealand with timber products since its doors opened in 1997. I spoke with Jill Dawson General Manager and Mark Batten the Yard Manager. The company has expanded its repertoire since 1997 and now 85% of orders are machined into a finished product such as weatherboards, decking, window reveals, flooring, fencing, laminated stair treads and tops, mouldings, and customised timber profiles. The popularity of natural timber in building keeps growing and the company now imports exotic timbers like Western Red Cedar, American Oak, Red Oak, Ash, European Beech, Kwila, Garapa and Purple Heart Decking. Timber is a beautiful natural product that’s always needed and always trendsetting. A lot of new homes are using timber as a feature like an entrance way or panelling. They can custom machine any profile for mouldings and skirtings, or laminate timber for large benchtops, stair treads, tables, and Vanity Tops. Specialised profile machining has become a big part of the business, and everything is made on site which makes for faster turnarounds, higher accuracy, and the ability to make off-the-shelf and truly custom one-off profiles. They have been creating their own profiles for some time and have a library of knives. They can produce one to match your profile. On site they have 3 moulders that profile all four sides to create a custom profile. There’s a great skill set on-site and it’s incredible what they can achieve. People can bring in samples or a piece of timber they want to match and talk to the sales team to get professional advice. They also offer pre-priming. If a picture says a thousand words, Halswell Timber’s showroom speaks volumes! Specialised products and timbers are on display where customers can feel the texture of the timber and see the variety of colours and applications. There are laminated timber tops, a large variety of flooring, mouldings, panelling and much more. The sales team are available for advice and can provide samples to take home. The sales team all have their own speciality so there’s a huge depth of knowledge inhouse. They also have a sales representative in the North Island. Halswell Timber imports from all over the world and supplies New Zealand native timbers. They have a large inventory of pre run timber available in the racks. The company stock a range of joinery timbers along with timber for building construction and landscaping. Imported timbers such as American white and Red oak are popular for commercial joinery and is used a lot for cafes, bars and furniture. Demand is always high for Western red cedar. Because of its high durability, stability, and light weight, it has established a reputation as an excellent species mainly used for cladding. Laminated panels are made to order for projects that require a wider dimension and are used for timber bench tops, table-tops, stair treads and more. Laminates are manufactured by gluing smaller boards together to the required dimension (length, width, and thickness) and are delivered to customers sanded and ready to finish. The machinery is separated into three sites at Halswell Timber to ensure the plant can stay in production. Different job types are allocated to each site and three separate ducting systems supplied by Egmont Air Ltd ensure clean air and safe working conditions. Treated and non-treated timber shavings and dust are separated by the ducting system with most of the untreated timber shavings being transported to landscaping companies. It is important to Halswell Timber that they can separate the waste product so they can dispose of it responsibly.
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