Download - Cwm Saerbren Business Flow (1)
CWM SAERBREN WOODLAND. (Welsh Government - NRW).
340 hectares
NRW – Local: Provide volume estimations and harvesting regime. Welcome to our Woods (WtoW): Liaison with stakeholders, provision of labour, training, H&S, Insurance, PR, timber supply. Black Mountain Woodfuels (BMWF): Provide sawmilling equipment, harvesting equipment, technical training, product development and marketing.
BLACK MOUNTAIN WOODFUELS & WELCOME TO OUR WOODS PROJECT.
Sawmilling and Biomass Business – Cwm Saerbren Woodland, (Treherbert, Upper Rhondda).
February 2015 – February 2016: Establishment.
SAWMILLING.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
MANUFACTURING.
WtoW: Buy standing trees from NRW, sell wood to sawmilling business. Buy back timber to manufacture products. BMWF: process wood, sell sawn-timber to own markets and back to
WtoW for manufacture of high-value timber products, and transfer
operational residues to WtoW to produce biomass fuels.
BIOMASS FUELS BMWF: Establish stove manufacturing business in community. Create
15-20 jobs within Yr1-2. Supply combustion systems to community at
cost price and initiate RHI payments.
WtoW: process forest & sawmill residues, wood-waste and
arboricultural waste into wood-pellets for community use.
WELSH
GOVERNMENT
(NRW).
BLACK
MOUNTAIN
WOODFUELS.
WELCOME TO
OUR WOODS.
COMMUNITY.
WOOD SUPPLY FLOW INCOME STREAMS COMMUNITY BENEFIT
Wood supply – 4 jobs. Sawmilling – 2 jobs. Manufacturing – 12-20 jobs. Biomass processing – 3 jobs. Biomass supply – 2 jobs.