Activities

While remaining flexible enough to respond to any request, our company focuses on 3 main areas:

Logging

Gomexco mainly buys maritime pine from private owners affected by storm Klaus in January 2009, which swept across the whole of southern France from east to west, wreaking havoc on the forests of Aquitaine and the Midi Pyrénées.

Forestry work was carried out by French and foreign loggers (Estonians, Belgians, Austrians and Irish, among others) who came for two years to mobilise the millions of m3 of fallen trees in the Landes region.

Gomexco contributes to sustainable forest management by working with sub-contractors who have subscribed to the French national forestry specifications, and therefore sells timber with PEFC certification, under the number PEFC/07-32-38/3.

Wood logistics

Gomexco organises the transport of maritime pine windfalls by road, rail or sea.

1. Using local hauliers, Gomexco delivers pine logs to local mills.
2. Working in partnership with SNCF, RFF and Eurocargorail, Gomexco supplies panel factories based in the Vosges region and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
3. From the port of Bayonne and in collaboration with Sotramab, Gomexco ships between 2,500 and 4,500 tonnes in bulk to customers in Germany and Belgium.

Gomexco has benefited from transport and storage breakage aid granted by the Draf and the Aquitaine Region to facilitate the disposal of millions of m3 of pine and to help operators wishing to store windfall. 

The timber trade

Gomexco distributes maritime pine windfalls according to quality.

Pulp pine is delivered via flatbeds to local plants or exported by full train to panel plants based in the Vosges region or the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Lumber and sawn timber is delivered to local sawmills or shipped by lorry to France or Italy, and is also loaded by ship at the port of Bayonne for sawmills in Belgium and Germany.

Over the last few years, Gomexco has built up a lasting business relationship with the main local players in the timber industry and has established itself as a reliable partner in the South-West region. Thanks to this experience, Gomexco is able to cover the whole of France and markets a wide range of species, from hardwoods to softwoods.