Products from responsible sources

Richd. ANDERS Polska is a production and trading company in the wood industry, offering primarily its own products, but also traded goods in the quality specified by the customer. The offer of the Richd. ANDERS Polska plant mainly includes: wooden scantlings (including window and door scantlings, L- and T-shaped scantlings, and eucalyptus scantlings), mouldings, pine pellets, glued panels (mainly oak and pine), as well as all kinds of glued elements with varied structures, manufactured to customers’ individual orders.

In our operations, we draw on 135 years of the Anders family’s business experience as well as specialist expertise in wood and its processing. At the same time, being aware of our obligations towards future generations, we source our raw materials from certified forests and other responsible sources. The company holds the FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council®) certificate under licence number FSC® C112419. In this way, we support responsible forest management worldwide, which is also practised by our customers when they choose the products we manufacture.

We attach particular importance to the quality of our semi-finished products made from various types of wood. We manufacture them in accordance with EN13307, which gives our customers confidence in their proper quality. While fulfilling our customers’ orders, we carry out detailed inspections at every stage of production. Based on an international network of agents, we guarantee our customers professional service, high quality, and the innovativeness of the solutions we offer.

135 years of experience

Production plant

The Richd. ANDERS Polska production plant is located in Kańczuga, in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship. Our company specialises in the production of laminated wood semi-finished products both for the joinery industry (window and door scantlings) and the furniture industry (frames and panels). We also provide wood steaming, kiln-drying, and mechanical processing services. Our offer has also been expanded to include high-quality and completely pure pine pellets.

In the day-to-day operation of the Richd. ANDERS Polska production plant, we use modern technologies that allow us to complete all orders in line with the standards expected by our customers and their specific requirements. We place particular emphasis on the high quality of the wood products we manufacture, which is why the raw materials we purchase are subjected to thorough inspection, both before and during the production of the ordered semi-finished products. We approach the issue of selecting raw material sources with full professionalism and responsibility, the best confirmation of which is the FSC® certificate held by our company.

We offer the possibility of manufacturing specific wood products with any structure and in the quality specified by the customer. Thanks to this solution, it is our customers who decide how the wood semi-finished products we manufacture can be used.

Modern technologies

For the purposes of our production and services, we have the necessary plant infrastructure at our disposal. This includes, above all, suitable production and storage halls with a total covered area of approximately 4,800 m2, three automatic heating boilers (including one steam boiler), four drying chambers with a total one-time capacity of approximately 300 m3, and a wood steaming chamber.

Our production technology is based on the latest-generation woodworking machines and other equipment that make it possible to obtain products meeting the highest requirements. The high-class tools, adhesives, and processes we use ensure the creation of products that comply with European standards. As regards the window and door scantlings manufactured by our company, all layers forming them undergo a very precise planing process, which is of great importance during gluing. The process of gluing the scantling layers takes place in hydraulic presses using high-quality waterproof adhesive compliant with DIN EN 204 D4, including EPI characteristics. The production process of our wood products differs slightly in the case of finger-jointed scantlings, as the layers are joined here using micro finger joints.

The conditions in the production hall, especially humidity and air temperature, are of great importance in scantling production. For this reason, we pay due attention to maintaining them, which gives our customers a guarantee of the proper durability of the adhesive bond. The quality of the products we offer is extremely important to us, which is why the company holds the appropriate certificates confirming it. Both our employees and management staff have many years of experience in the wood industry, which additionally translates into the quality of the wooden semi-finished products we offer.

Modern technologies

Richard Anders

22.03.1856
19.01.1934

Company history

Richd. ANDERS Polska was established in 1994 as a continuation of the 135-year timber industry tradition passed down through the Anders family from generation to generation. Activity in the wood industry was initiated by Richard Anders (shown in the photograph next to this text), known as the East Prussian timber king, who launched his first sawmill in 1882 in the town of Ruciane in the Masurian Lake District (then East Prussia). Richard Anders equipped the plant with vertical saw frames powered by a locomobile (steam engine) and supplied it with timber floated directly to the sawmill through the system of Masurian canals and lakes.

The business and timber-working tradition of the Anders family, initiated by Richard, was cultivated and passed on together with specialist knowledge of wood processing by the following generations. Richard’s grandson, Ekkehard Anders, played a particularly important role in the history of Richd. ANDERS Polska. He was born in Masuria, in the town of Pisz, and spent his childhood in the family home located in Ruciane-Nida, where he lived and grew up until the outbreak of the Second World War. In the post-war period, he ran extensive business operations around the world together with his father, Georg. At the end of the 1990s, attractive investment opportunities appeared in Poland, which Ekkehard Anders decided to pursue. Initially, he became involved in several projects, but in the end he devoted himself entirely to the development of the production plant in Kańczuga.

Richd. ANDERS Polska was founded in 1994. In the first years of its operation, the company focused on the production of beech wood parquet as well as contract wood drying and steaming services. In 2006, the company expanded its offer to include the production of glued wood, which remains one of its specialisations to this day. At first, Richd. ANDERS Polska provided its services to joinery manufacturers, supplying them with pine products. In 2021, the company introduced additional wood species into production, namely oak and eucalyptus, which created new opportunities and made it possible to meet a wider range of customer needs. The current offer of the Richd. ANDERS Polska production plant includes traded goods in the quality expected by the contractor, but above all its own products made from pine, eucalyptus, and oak wood. These include glued panels, window and door scantlings, L- and T-shaped scantlings, pine pellets, mouldings, oak stair treads, and eucalyptus scantlings made from eucalyptus red grandis wood — a high-quality raw material sourced in Uruguay. The company obtains all raw materials used in the production of its products exclusively from certified forests and other responsible sources. The plant’s daily operations are guided by professionalism in the services provided and the use of the latest technologies.

In 2008, Ms Ewa Ciesielka joined the company and continues to serve as President of the Management Board to this day. The Richd. ANDERS Polska production plant currently employs as many as sixty qualified and experienced workers. They have completed thorough training, during which they acquired expert knowledge of wood processing that they later apply in practice. Since 2011, the company has been a member of the Polish Chamber of Commerce of the Wood Industry (PIGPD), based in Poznań.