James Jones & Sons Ltd

James Jones & Sons Ltd is the UK’s most diversified, family owned timber processor with annual sales now in excess of £180 Million. The company today operates from 23 sites across the UK and employs almost 900 committed and dedicated people.

Operating the UK’s most modern, efficient and strategically located network of five Scottish sawmills, James Jones & Sons Ltd manufactures the widest range of British-grown, sawn timber products, including carcassing, fencing, pallet wood and heavy sections. Supported by our long-term commitment to continued capital investment, we have led the way in areas such as digital scanning technology, timber treatment, incising, mini-bundling and much more to ensure that the timber we supply to many of the UK's leading timber and builders merchants is of the highest quality possible.

Our Timber Systems Division, based in Forres, is the UK’s largest producer of I-Joists, branded JJI-Joists, supplying all of the major UK house builders and having a 45% UK market share. We also supply the UK construction industry with high quality Glulam and LVL and support users with our specialist team of engineers, designers, technicians and our I-Joist design software. To find out more about our range of engineered timber products please visit our Engineered Timber section.

Our Pallets and Packaging division has been built over the last two decades and today is one of the UK's major pallet businesses with an annual new pallet manufacturing capacity of up to 10 Million new pallets a year. This has been made possible through our on-going commitment to investment in the latest automated assembly lines at many of our sites. Our network of 16 strategically located pallet inspection and repair centres handle up to 20 Million pallets every year, working closely with all the major pallet pools - CHEP, LPR, IPP and EPAL.

We also offer a pallet repatriation service, which sees us collect unused and unwanted wooden pallets from a wide range of industrial sites to help businesses manage their sites space more efficiently, improve on-site health and safety and to improve their environmental impact in line with Government targets. 

James Jones: A History

From its trading roots more than 180 years ago in the 1830s James Jones & Sons Ltd has had a very varied and diverse history working across many sectors and touching many communities across the UK.

Our Values

Our aim remains exactly the same as that exemplified by our founder, James Jones, and that is to set and maintain the very highest standards of quality and service and to take that extra little bit of care in every aspect of what we do.