JSC "Baltic Sea Port" offers a wide range of timber processing services. The aim is not only to increase the value of cargoes of timber, but also to ensure that the uses of Latvia's forestry resources are as appropriate as possible.

You will have access to the following types of timber processing - all of which will increase the value of your cargo:
high-pressure impregnation
antiseptic treatment
machine and visual strength grading
kiln drying
planing, calibrating

The benefits that you will enjoy when you make use of the services of the JSC "Baltic Sea Port" timber processing centre are these:
more valuable cargoes
savings in terms of not having to transport your cargo to other processing
companies
timber materials which are more long lasting

Our clients have access to high-pressure timber impregnation tanks which use CCO and AC 500 chemicals.

High pressure impregnation protects timber against rotting and pests, thus extending its durability. This means that less timber has to be felled. Impregnated timber has a guaranteed durability of at least 25 years. Impregnated wood can be used for a wide variety of purposes - outdoor fences, building, wooden piers, etc. The equipment can handle 125,000 m³ per year. The timber processing centre of JSC "Baltic Sea Port" impregnates timber in four modern autoclaves. The length of each autoclave is 18 metres, and the diameter is 2.20 metres.
Since 2005, our clients have had access to another modern and high-capacity autoclave which is 15 m long and has a diameter of 1.80 m.

The length of each autoclave is 18 metres, and the diameter is 2.20 metres.

High-pressure impregnation process

Antiseptic treatment is the best way of protecting timber materials from becoming less valuable because of the effect of various biological factors.

The timber processing centre of JSC "Baltic Sea Port" offers the world's most highly recognised antiseptic treatment, SINESTO B. The wood is sunk into a tank of the chemical. This is the world's most common method in treating timber with this chemical.

The system can handle 50,000 m³ of wood each year.

The demand for dried timber materials has been on the rise over the last few years, because such timber lasts much longer than other kinds of wood. Drying of timber increases quality substantially, and that is particularly important in construction and in furniture manufacturing.

The timber processing centre of JSC "Baltic Sea Port" dries timber in three modern kilns. Wood can be dried to the level of 18-22% moisture in no more than 18 to 30 hours.

The kilns can handle 140,000 m³ of timber each year.

We can prepare timber of very precise sizes. Planing allows us to produce materials of any profile, with a smooth or profiled surface. The calibration methods allows us to ensure equal sizes for an entire set of timber materials.

Planing is done with a modern system from the Johnsered company in Sweden.

JSC "Baltic Sea Port"'s timber processing centre also offers machine and visual strength grading of timber (on the basis of the C16, C24 and TR26 standards).

The system can handle 75,000 m³ per year.

Machine strength grading

This method checks the extent to which timber can survive the tension of being bent.
The system determines the critical strength, which can cause mechanical damage to the wood.
The tension of bending is measured by the system, thus determining the longitudinal resistance and class of the timber.

Visual strength grading

The durability of timber depends entirely on the species of tree and the conditions under which the tree grew. The class of timber is determined on the basis of how many branches there were, the quality of fibre and various cracks.
Visual criteria determine the extent, type and number of defects that can be permitted for each class of timber.
This process takes more time, but it is possible to come up with a much more precise determination of how many defects there are and of the extent to which the timber corresponds to a specific standard.

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