InWood started in 1999 specialising in sweet chestnut cladding in defect-free finger jointed lengths up to 6.1m, with its coppiced timber sourced from well-managed southeast woodlands.
Since then, the Lewes-based business has developed into a leading engineered timber supplier to construction customers, producing a range of glulam products alongside its CNC frame offering, as well as exterior and interior cladding. Its glulam beams are now available in a variety of species, including oak, ash, Douglas fir, larch, and Corsican pine. An upgraded lamination line enables it to offer products in thermally modified timber too, plus Accoya, the focus of ‘extensive lamination R&D’ using environmentally benign adhesives. In addition, the company supplies oak frames and garden buildings alongside more complex engineered mass timber solutions.
InWood has also diversified its cladding range to include redwood, whitewood, thermally modified timbers, larch, oak, Douglas fir and Accoya products in a wide selection of standard and bespoke profiles.
The company describes the last 12–18 months in the cladding market as steady overall, with clear peaks around spring and early autumn. Demand has been strongest for premium hardwoods and stable softwoods, with a definite shift towards more specification-led enquiries.
“Clients are increasingly focused on performance, stability, and reliable lead times,” said sales and marketing director James Rice. “That has worked well for us because our finger-jointed cladding offers consistency and efficiency that traditional long-length boards can’t always provide.”
InWood has seen a fairly even split between new-build and refurbishment projects. New-build schemes are typically larger and more specification-heavy, but refurbishment and property-upgrade work have grown noticeably as customers look to modernise existing buildings with durable, low-maintenance timber solutions.
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