Užmojai su garantijomis, UAB

Company activity: the production of birch wood blanks for the industry of furniture,

parquetry and panel.

The main goal of the company: to supply raw material to the members of the

market under long term agreements of cooperation.

Strategy: we are seeking to be the worldwide leader of the hardwood blanks chain

by installing and using innovative technologies and a flexible supply system.

Development: in 1993 UAB ?Užmojai su garantijomis? (USG), a company of primary

birch wood processing, which belongs to the group of ?Baltic American Concord? (BAC),

was founded as a little sawmill with 7 employees. Now it is the biggest Lithuanian company

producing birch wood blanks.

While the company is expanding and the extents of production are growing, a lot of

attention is drawn to the modernization of production and installation of new technologies.

In 2006-2007 an investment of 10 mln. Lt was made for the acquisition of modern equipment:

• ?Woodeye? ? equipment that evaluates the quality of wood;
• ?Weining? ? modern optimization line;
• ?Stenner? ? sawing line of thin timber.

The technology and specific management of production allow us producing

products, that satisfy the buyers with the price and quality ratio.

Raw materials / Resources: the company processes only the wood that grows in Lithuania:

• 75 % of which id bought from national forests;
• 25 % of which is bought from the private sector.

Markets:

• 60 % of the production produced by the company is sold in the local market,
• 40 % of the produced production is exported to Italy, Hungary, China, USA, Austria, Germany, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, and Great Britain.