Well, that a was a busy one! This summer has seen a surge in eco-conscious civil and marine engineers re-purposing greenheart timber for their new sustainability projects. As Bono would say, we’ve ‘climbed the highest mountains and run through the fields’ but we’ve also visited a fair few beaches to source more greenheart timber too. […]

When the phone call came for us to collect some rare opepe timber from a West Country railway engineering yard we soon hot-footed it down to the site. Opepe (Nauclea diderrichii) originates from Central and Western Africa and is a tropical hardwood which is renowned for its durability. It’s not available for reclamation very often […]