Glennon Brothers

Wholesale Building MaterialsLeinster, Ireland201-500 Employees

Glennon Brothers is a third-generation family business, established in 1913 and the premier name in the UK & Irish timber processing industry. With four timber processing facilities, in Longford and Fermoy in Ireland, and Windymains and Troon in Scotland, Glennon Brothers offer a unique one-stop-shop solution for sawn softwood in the British Isles. 

Supplying sawn timber products, predominantly for the construction sector, but also for pallet and packaging, fencing and residue sectors, Glennon Brothers extensive product range includes, kiln dried strength graded carcassing, pallet and packaging case material, and CLS for timber frame homes. The company also produces a wide range of fencing products, such as incised posts, rails, feather edge boards and sleepers available in brown and green treatment. 

Glennon Brothers also provide quality timber frame homes and engineered roof trusses, through two timber frame home manufacturing facilities, Dempsey Timber Engineering, in Arklow, Ireland and Alexanders Timber Design, in Troon, Scotland.

Handling over 1.1 million m3 of logs, with a total sawn wood capacity of over 550,000m3 per annum, Glennon Brothers also provides forestry management services and advice to forest growers. Glennon Brothers purchase sustainable quality sawlog from private growers and state organisations in Ireland and the UK.

Employing 500 people directly, and 250 people indirectly, Glennon Brothers core belief is to continually invest in people, innovative technology and state of the art equipment, in order to improve product quality and enhance customer service. In the past 2 decades, over €100m has been invested in the business. This includes a £14m biomass Combined Heat & Power Plant (CHP) completed in Troon and a £14m investment programme, currently underway in Windymains, to further increase production capacity.

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