Sylva Foundation is seeking a suitably qualified supplier to supply, deliver and install/commission industrial woodworking machinery.
We are pleased to offer this as an open process for suitable suppliers to tender proposals. Deadline for submissions is 12 noon on 3rd April.
Specification summary:
- Surface Planer, with Spiral/Tersa Block minimum 500mm wide.Minimum 7 KW motor
- Thickness Planer, with Spiral/Tersa Block minimum 600mm wide,Sectional infeed roller,Rubber outfeed roller
- Panel Saw,with electronic control (rise/fall & tilt), Minimum 3m sliding table,Scoring unit
- Spindle moulder, with electronic control (rise/fall), with integrated Aigner fence,
- 3 roller power feed unit for spindle moulder
- Large Bandsaw, Minimum 500mm wheel diameter,Minimum 4HP motor
- Cross cut saw,400mm blade – 550mm travel,
- Rip Saw,500mm blade capacity
Delivery of all machinery to Sylva Foundation Wood Centre, Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire OX14 4QT.
Installation/commission of all machinery in the Sylva Foundation Wood School workshop, and induction/training into the installed machines.
Full details are available in the Tender Document
This opportunity has also been posted on the Government’s Contracts Finder Service
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Background
Oxfordshire-based charity the Sylva Foundation launched its Wood School in 2019. Alongside a facility to support lifelong learning in wood craft for the public, its ambition is to provide skills training for aspiring woodworking professionals. While for some people this may be crafts-based, there is also a requirement to train workers in professional practice, to be capable of working within industrial manufacturing, requiring skills in using large-scale machinery and working under batch-production conditions. The next step in our project is to purchase a range of industrial wood manufacturing machinery and equipment for the Sylva Wood School that would complete existing investments in a building and personnel. The outputs of the programme will be a highly skilled workforce on a rolling basis to support local businesses, supporting the local economy. As an environmental charity, a key component of the business will be to support the use of sustainably-sourced timber, which in turn will stimulate the land-based economy and its environmental goods.