Cutting edge skills for world-leading saw doctors

Cutting edge skills for world-leading saw doctors

Saw doctoring is one of the most valuable and specialist skills in timber manufacturing. BSW have developed the UK’s first saw doctoring course and qualification to ensure that these skills are not lost to a generation.

4 May 2021

BSW urges everyone to play their part in the first South Scotland RES

BSW urges everyone to play their part in the first South Scotland RES

BSW urges everyone to play their part in developing the first ever South of Scotland Regional Economic Strategy.

10 Mar 2021

BSW donates timber to improve school facilities for Melrose youngsters

BSW donates timber to improve school facilities for Melrose youngsters

BSW has donated materials to Melrose Primary School to help build an outdoor shelter for the children.

26 Jan 2021

BSW supports the People’s Project in Dumfries with timber donation

BSW supports the People’s Project in Dumfries with timber donation

BSW Timber’s mill in Dalbeattie has donated timber boards and offcuts to the People’s Project in Dumfries to facilitate a great community-based project.

30 Sep 2020

BSW announces retirement of leading director

BSW announces retirement of leading director

A valued and much respected member of BSW’s senior leadership team for over a decade, Hamish Macleod has taken the decision to retire from his role as director of public affairs for the BSW Group in March 2021.

24 Sep 2020

COVID-19 statement

COVID-19 statement

Our message to customers

16 Mar 2020

BSW Group acquired by Endless LLP

BSW Group acquired by Endless LLP

BSW Group, the UK’s largest integrated forestry and sawmilling business, has been acquired by private equity firm Endless LLP as part of a multi-level growth plan for the company.

19 Feb 2020

College students given behind the scenes tour of BSW Dalbeattie site

College students given behind the scenes tour of BSW Dalbeattie site

BSW Timber has opened its doors and offered a behind the scenes access tour to a group of local college students.

10 Jan 2020

Freshmen flock to Dalbeattie

Freshmen flock to Dalbeattie

BSW Timber Dalbeattie has welcomed some international visitors this week.
Students and tutors from Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri visited the Dalbeattie site on Wednesday.

24 May 2019

Get to know... Katie Martin, Apprentice Saw Doctor

Get to know... Katie Martin, Apprentice Saw Doctor

Katie has been an apprentice with BSW for 18 months and is one of only three female saw doctors in Europe. We heard how she got the job, what it entails and what life’s like as one of Europe’s elite.

21 Mar 2019

MSP supports BSW apprentice scheme at Dalbeattie

MSP supports BSW apprentice scheme at Dalbeattie

Finlay Carson MSP visited BSW Timber’s Dalbeattie based sawmill on Friday 8th March as part of the National Apprentice Week campaign.

12 Mar 2019

BSW Timber encourages green fingers in local primary schools

BSW Timber encourages green fingers in local primary schools

BSW Timber has donated planter boxes to primary schools in the areas surrounding it’s six sawmills across the UK, continuing its longstanding commitment to supporting local communities. Pupils ...

4 Jul 2014

BSW Timber Group Member of Binderholz