Products and Services

BFC has established responsibly managed forest plantations which grow trees to generate carbon credits and bioenergy as well as raw materials for the manufacture of quality wood products. The company has to date planted 6,724ha including 4,725ha in Bukaleba, Mayuge district and 1,992ha in Kachung, Dokolo district. The species planted include Pines, Eucalyptus as well as indigenous species like Terminalia species, Maesopsis eminii (Musizi) and Khaya anthoceca (Mahogany species). We operate a timber treatment plant that produces utility poles for power distribution lines, telecom poles and fencing posts, and structural timber. The poles are pressure-treated using environmentally friendly Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) preservative. The poles are professionally treated to ensure the de-sired chemical retention by the wood.

Our Poles are utilised primarily within the local market and export markets are pursued whenever it is opportune. BFC operates a state-of-the-art Wood-mizer sawmill with a total production capacity of 80 m3 per day or 18,000 m3 per annum. The modern sawmill ensures the availability of sufficient stocks of wet-off-saw and kiln dried timber to service our demanding local and export clientele as required. Kiln dried timber is produced using German made high temperature kilns and associated computer-controlled moisture removal processes. Through the production of sustainable wood products, our forests provide important economic and ecological assistance in the control of the ever increasing pressure on Uganda’s natural forests and the associated environmental challenges of climate change, land degradation, water pollution and loss of bio-diversity. BFC seeks to ensure that its activities are environmentally sustainable, and believes its activities continue to have a significantly positive environmental impact. Off-cuts, and other mill waste is chipped and along with sawdust and shavings is sold as biofuel and chicken litter to the local market. BFC has a well-established tree seedlings nursery at Bukaleba with a production capacity of 4,000,000 tree seedlings per annum. The nursery is SPGS (Saw log Production Grant Scheme) certified for quality seedlings production. A variety of tree seedlings are produced including P Caribaea (Pine), Pine hybrids, and hybrid Eucalyptus (GxU) cttings) BFC has pallet making plant at Massese with a production capacity of up to 20,000 pallets a year. The Pallets are made from FSCTM certified timber and are customized according to client needs and specifications.

4,979ha Planted with

Pine

1,552ha Planted with Eucalyptus

245ha Temporary Unplanted Areas

1,254ha Conservation

Areas