SR Timber Celebrates 20 Years in Business

2025 marks a milestone 20 years in business for timber merchant, SR Timber.

Trading Director Shaun Revill – the “SR” in SR Timber – co-founded the company in 2005. As an industry expert in timber roofing battens, Shaun has extensive knowledge about every aspect of production, from log processing to sawmilling and distribution. For many years, his guiding principle has been to promote the importance of using only certified, graded, high-quality battens in the UK roofing market.

Shaun started in the roofing business on the tools working for his late father, a third-generation slater and tiler. He expanded his knowledge of the industry and learnt about timber production and distribution by working for a Swedish timber exporter that specialised in the production, sales, and distribution of roofing batten.

Following a spell as a timber agent where, due to his knowledge of both Swedish and Latvian sawmills, he placed suppliers and customers together in this specialist area, Shaun partnered with a UK roofing contractor to establish SR Timber.

The business was formed along with its sister business, a Latvian timber sawmill, which has since remained its only source of roofing batten, procuring logs and boards and producing batten that is quality-checked and third-party certified to BS5534.

Celebrating 20 Years

Today SR Timber employs nine staff, nearly half of which are female in what has traditionally been a male-dominated industry. All the management and sales staff are independently qualified batten graders, continuing to raise industry standards.

The company has offices based in Huthwaite, North Nottinghamshire, and a sizeable import terminal at Immingham, where it stocks significant volumes of its flagship trademarked brand of PREMIUM GOLD™ BS5534 graded batten. Thousands of cubic meters of SR Timber’s PREMIUM GOLD™ batten are delivered into and out of its Immingham terminal each month. It is consistently arriving from Latvia and is produced by its long-standing sole partnership sawmill.

Over the years, SR Timber has expanded its timber product range to include various roofing timbers. The business is planning a number of celebratory activities over the year to mark this special achievement.

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