Later today, our very own Clifford Jones Timber Ltd will feature widely throughout the Welsh media as it shares its sustainable good practice with 40 delegates at its sawmill at Lôn Cae Bricks. Remember... you read about it here, first.
Jones is the UK's leading manufacturer of softwood fence posts, that we all know. They produce some 10,000 a day. Many will be familiar with their sheds, decking and wooden play equipment. The business only started in 1987 when Jones moved to manufacturing the products it had been felling and transporting since 1948. What is less apparent is that nothing—nothing—leaves its factory as wood waste.
Re-using started in 2003 with the production of its first log briquettes suitable for wood and multi-fuel burners. These used waste sawdust. These were popular in continental Europe before hitting the big time here in the UK, following the log burner revolution here. Then, in 2008, Jones added burnable pellets to its range.
Wood waste is used to power its plant. Other wood waste products go to Blue Ribbon horse bedding and its CJ cat litter which, like the fence products, is shipped worldwide via its very own cat website. Both animal products started in 2010.
Its biggest export over Rhuthun/Ruthin is still, of course, its trademark white plume visible from the Clwyd Gate. When the wind blows in the wrong direction, it sends a faint Kronospan-like chocolate-wood smell over all of the Glasdir housing estate. Yum. Or not. That's without mentioning the other "hum", the constant low frequency noise associated with the seven-day-a-week mill.
Re-using started in 2003 with the production of its first log briquettes suitable for wood and multi-fuel burners. These used waste sawdust. These were popular in continental Europe before hitting the big time here in the UK, following the log burner revolution here. Then, in 2008, Jones added burnable pellets to its range.
Its biggest export over Rhuthun/Ruthin is still, of course, its trademark white plume visible from the Clwyd Gate. When the wind blows in the wrong direction, it sends a faint Kronospan-like chocolate-wood smell over all of the Glasdir housing estate. Yum. Or not. That's without mentioning the other "hum", the constant low frequency noise associated with the seven-day-a-week mill.
No horrible smells for or from your cat... unless it lives with you on Glasdir...