Upon foundation of the company in 1999 STILLS Ltd. are trading with high quality dried sawn timber demanded mainly by joineries, which are company’s largest consumers, as well as local and foreign individual customers.
STILLS Ltd. performs a full range of production processes starting from purchasing saw logs up to manufacturing of finished products.
At the very beginning the company offered dried unedged oak and ash boards (lumber). Upon extension of the manufacturing, the range of processable timber where expanded with such types of wood as pine, birch, black alder, linden, maple and elm.
Throughout the period of company’s activity the volume and quality of manufactured products gradually increased, and now items of different types of dried timber are available to joineries which create the biggest demand on the local market.
Once the company concluded that the demand for high quality, specific glued boards, table boards and stair components are increasing, it boosted the volume of manufacturing glued boards and expanded the range of its items, thus giving customers, manufacturers of furniture and local craftsmen a possibility to purchase qualitative oak and ash glued boards.
Glued boards are used as timber blanks in the production of different furniture. Moreover, such timber blanks are exported to European and Scandinavian countries where they have already gained acceptance by customers, whose highly positive feedback increases sales of our items abroad.
As of 2006 STILLS Ltd. has successful cooperation with Riga School of Arts and Crafts which admitted the company’s manufactured products to be qualitative. As a proof, the company has been winning school’s tenders for the delivery of workable timber for over ten years now. The timber is used for educational purposes such as producing different furniture, wood engraving and other.
Once Kurzeme region gained favourable conditions for obtaining funds in 2012, STILLS Ltd. chose the most appropriate programme, elaborated a project in compliance with the requirements of the European Union and obtained co-financing of the European Union for the construction of a new manufacturing facility. The project was successfully implemented and the facility was completed in 2014. This allowed to increase the manufacturing capacity even more and improve working environment for workers, which raised labour productivity and product quality.
Production that is manufactured by company STILLS Ltd. are used in widely-known Latvian supermarkets as fixtures and interior design features.
At the moment the company purchases pine, birch, linden, black alder ”A” grade saw logs, as well as oak and ash saw logs of different quality from timber companies and individuals.