We import our own slow grown scandinavian redwood pine for all our softwood requirements.
Is pine timber hardwood or softwood.
At our edenbridge mill we then machine the timber to produce our planed range of softwood and softwood mouldings.
By selecting and machining the timber ourselves we can ensure timber with a low knot content for easier on site preparation and time saving.
Classifying wood as either a hardwood or softwood comes down to its physical structure and makeup and so it is overly simple to think of hardwoods as being hard and durable compared to soft and workable softwoods.
This happens to be generally true but there are exceptions such as in the cases of wood from yew trees a softwood that is relatively hard and wood from balsa trees a.
Poplar alder red pine feel free to contact us for more information.
Cembran pine swiss pine pinus cembra european softwood 9 western red cedar wrc north american softwood 8 douglas fir oregon pine north american softwood 6.
In fact some hardwoods are softer and lighter than softwoods.
In addition to timber we also produce fir and spruce fixed dimension elements.
Browse our range of trade standard planed softwood timber such astravis perkins versatile redwood pine standard planed timber 25mm x 125mm and many more.
All our products are from eu.
The main differences between hardwoods and softwoods are botanical and relate to the way the tree grows and the timber is laid down.
The terms softwood and hardwood do not indicate softness or hardness of particular timbers.