Every step between the forest and your site happens inside UFCL: sawmilling, kiln drying, pressure treatment and moulding.
Logs from UFCL concessions are broken down into boards, planks and beams at the Gatare sawmill.
Our sawmill sits in Gatare Sector, Nyamagabe District, beside the Nyungwe buffer zone where the timber is grown. Milling close to the forest keeps haulage short and lets us grade and cut to your order rather than from stock.
Dry kilns at the Nyanza factory bring timber to a stable moisture content before it leaves.
Green timber moves, cracks and invites fungus. Hot-water kilns at Nyanza, heated with biomass from our own processing, bring boards and beams down to 12–15% moisture so joinery stays square. We also dry timber that customers bring to us.
CCA treatment at the Nyanza pole plant for poles that last in the ground.
Poles for power, telecom and fencing are treated with CCA (copper chrome arsenate) at our Nyanza plant so they resist rot, termites and weather. Our main buyers are Rwanda Energy Group and rural electrification contractors. Treatment standard and retention levels: [Confirm].
Wood-Mizer and moulder at Nyanza turn dried boards into profiles ready to fit.
Skirting, architraves, flooring, cladding and custom profiles are run on our moulder at Nyanza from kiln-dried stock. Bring a drawing or a sample and we match it.
