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The Green-Wood Company - Sycamore House - Laughton Road - Ringmer - East Sussex - BN8 5SY- Tel: 01273 814555 - Fax: 01273 814503 - Email: info@thegreenwoodco.co.uk |
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The Green-Wood Company based in the South East of England specialises in Laminated Sweet Chestnut and finger jointed products, and in particular laminated sweet chestnut windows and doors. The Green-Wood Company is a newly formed division of Specialist Joinery (South) Ltd. This has been set up to meet the growing and important sustainability agenda of many of our clients. We are working with a number of our suppliers to ensure that the materials we use are obtained from sustainable and managed sources. |
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One such area is the use of locally grown Sweet Chestnut. Since Roman times the Sweet Chestnut has been grown in large volumes in Southern England using the coppice method. There are currently around 18,000ha of sweet chestnut woods in Southern England which until recently had been used mainly for fencing & hop poles. These markets have declined in recent years but with the technological advances in adhesives and machinery it is now possible to use this species, dried, laminated and finger jointed to larger sections for joinery production providing attractive, durable and highly sustainable products such as the orangery featured on this page. Only a small proportion of the annual increment growth is taken from the woods and with coppicing, the tree regrows from the same rootstock and is not 'killed' thus maintaining a highly sustainable historic silvicultural system. |
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