Locations

Maldon

This six-acre site stores some £5m worth of sawn temperate hardwoods from North America and Europe alongside tropical hardwoods from Africa, the Far East and South America. From its 10,000m² undercover storage area, experienced measurers and graders select against customers specific requirements.

Danbury

Occupying 12 acres, Danbury (near Chelmsford in Essex) is home to one of the largest and most modern milling facilities in the UK and an important kiln drying operation (19 modern drying kilns with a cumulative capacity of 1,300m³ that ensure Brooks Bros’ timber is accurately dried to the correct moisture content). The site majors on joinery and clear softwoods, decking and BrooksTech laminated timbers and components. It also features an automated flooring line that produces cross-cut and ends matched solid hardwood flooring, offers a wide selection of hardwood, softwood (£2.5m stockholding), picture framing and mdf mouldings as well as foil and veneer wrapping and lacquer, paint and stain finishing.

Nottingham

Brooks Bros (Midlands) Ltd has been a leading Midlands timber supplier for over 100 years. It was created through the purchase of Fitchett & Woollacott Ltd in 2002. It houses one of the company's two flooring showrooms and stocks of some 30,000 m² flooring. The site has a wide and varied customer base and offers hardwoods, softwoods, decking, engineered products. panel products and a fast-track Weinig Powermat operated machining service.

Skelmersdale

Brooks Bros moved from Burscough in 2008 to this modern storage and office facility that gives immediate access (via the M58 and the region's expansive motorway network) to the North of England, parts of Yorkshire and Shropshire and North Wales. It is a 3.5 acre site with 4,600m² of undercover secure storage that is well stocked with hardwoods, softwoods, flooring and sheet materials. The site also offers a fast-track machining service.

Sunderland

Brooks Bros (NE) Ltd was a strategic acquisition that gives the company direct access to a wide customer base in the North East and Scotland. Its in-house machining mill produces mouldings, decking and joinery products and the site holds a broad range of hardwoods, softwoods and sheet material stocks. .