Kazys Vaupsas is our EOTM thanks to his positive attitude to work, and enthusiasm for improving productivity. Over recent months, Kazys who is our CAE MillHost Technician has performed particularly well in the following areas: Spent significant amounts of time in the evenings mentoring/training new MillHost operative on night shift, Has recently been trained on […]
Environmental Product Declarations
The Balcas website has been updated to include new Environmental Product Declarations for our homegrown timber, which are now available for download here These verifications are in essence a declaration of our ‘carbon footprint’ and will assist specifiers and contractors to meet their client’s sustainability requirements and reduce the environmental impact of the timber specified […]
Employee Of The Month – May
Kazys Vaupsas is our EOTM thanks to his positive attitude to work, and enthusiasm for improving productivity. Over recent months, Kazys who is our CAE MillHost Technician has performed particularly well in the following areas: Spent significant amounts of time in the evenings mentoring/training new MillHost operative on night shift, Has recently been trained on […]
Pauric Kettyles Fundraising Raffle (Update)
Last week our friend and colleague, Pauric suffered a serious medical emergency whilst on holidays in America (at the time of writing this is thought to have been a cardiac arrest). While he is being described as still critical, we are comforted by news that he is now in a more stable condition, but will […]
2023 Charitable Partnership Announced
Tomorrow is the first day of the new financial year and we are delighted to announce our new charitable partnership for 2023 as Make-A-Wish UK In addition to our opening and closing donations, the majority of our fundraising efforts throughout the year will be focused on helping to grant wishes to critically ill children in […]
Easter Holiday Closure
We are closed on Friday and Monday and reopen on Tuesday 11th April. Wood pellet orders may still be made online at https://balcasenergy.com/online-shop-for-wood-pellets/ Enjoy your break!
Happy Retirement, Eric
Eric Robinson retires today after an impressive 45 years with Balcas. First joining on 3rd of March 1978 as a ‘Sawyer’ – his role entailed assessing the quality of logs as they entered the mill before passing for further processing. Eric progressed to Supervisor of the Log Yard before moving to his current position as […]
St Patrick’s Day Bank Holiday
Our Enniskillen office is closed Friday, 17th March 2023 for St Patrick’s Day. Instead you will find us supporting our local community www.projectstpatrick.com giving out real and candy floss trees!!! We reopen as normal on Monday, 20th March 2023 #bankholiday #stpatricksday2023 #treesareourfuture #futuressobrightyougottawearshades
Queen’s Green Canopy Trees Planted At Balcas
In a gesture which recognises both the 60th anniversary of Balcas and the Queen’s Green Canopy project, a spruce, a birch and a rowan tree were ceremoniously planted today by Viscount Brookeborough, the late Queen’s Lord-in-waiting for over a quarter of a century. The timber producing spruce tree was the 60th planted this month in […]
Christmas Closing
Balcas Timber has closed for the holidays and reopens on Tuesday 3rd January. Balcas Energy remains open for online orders 24/7 and their office closing dates are: 26th, 27th December 2022, & 2nd January 2023. Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas.
Warriors For Humanity Plant Trees For Balcas
This year for #NationalTreeWeek – rather than just talk about the trees we harvest sustainably and how they help us achieve our own carbon emission targets, we wanted to throw some focus the way of a great project underway in Kenya. Warriors for Humanity are on a mission to plant 1 million trees in East Africa […]