Xilonor, a Galician company responsible for the opening of the first CLT production plant in Galicia in 2021.
Our goals include promoting the use of cross-laminated timber, leveraging the resources found in our environment in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner, as well as establishing ourselves as a benchmark for the wood construction sector in the Iberian Peninsula.
Xilonor aims to promote the advancement of the wood sector through innovation and the circular economy.
Our raw material is pine from Galicia. All the wood we consume is locally sourced from responsibly managed plantations. We believe it is important to contribute to generating value and growth in our environment, while reducing the carbon footprint and the KM associated with our product by reducing the distance between our raw material and our production facility.
We have a great team that combines training and experience in the wood sector.
We are manufacturers of CLT.
Our factory has the best facilities for the production of cross-laminated timber panels, with machinery specially selected from leading European manufacturers and adapted to the characteristics of our raw material, allowing us to achieve the best results.
All production is fully automated, from the structural grading of the wood boards to the final machining of the parts.
Our team is made up of highly trained and experienced professionals in the wood, architecture, and engineering industries.
At Xilonor, we are convinced that we are living in a time of change. Construction must inevitably move toward a more efficient and sustainable approach, focusing on constructing buildings that are more respectful of the environment, prioritizing the use of construction materials that utilize local raw materials, have a lower environmental impact both in their manufacturing and in their transportation to the construction site, are renewable, and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In this context, CLT emerges as a natural, renewable, and environmentally friendly alternative, combined with the latest technological developments and innovations.
The raw material is wood, a natural material of plant origin that grows in the forests near our factory and can be managed sustainably and in a controlled manner to ensure its preservation. While growing, trees release oxygen and absorb CO2 through photosynthesis, turning our forests into large CO2 storage areas. Once the tree is felled and processed to obtain the wooden boards that will be used to form the CLT panel, this CO2 remains trapped in the CLT panel itself, continuing to store CO2.
At the end of its useful life, it can be reused, recycled to obtain other wood-based products, or used to generate energy, thus closing the cycle.
For all the above reasons, CLT is one of the structural materials with the lowest carbon footprint, as it offsets the low CO2 emissions emitted during its production with the amount of CO2 it absorbs from the atmosphere as a tree. If we add to this the fact that, for equal weight, wood is more resistant than concrete or steel, we achieve the same flexural strength through a lighter wood structure. A lighter structure translates into fewer kilograms of material, and therefore, significant savings in the energy required for its manufacture. In other words, greater energy efficiency.
Values are one of the basic pillars that define a company’s character and identity. We firmly believe that our corporate culture should guide our daily actions.
Thus, we aspire to a culture based on shared values, developed on two fundamental principles: mutual respect and effective effort.
MUTUAL RESPECT
As a way to encourage the best possible response from others, we seek personal relationships guided by:
SIMPLICITY
HONESTY
GENEROSITY
EFFECTIVE EFFORT
It is essential to ensure the sustained generation of resources that will ensure our independence in building the company we would like to work for. We need to address these issues with:
TRANSPARENCY
ENTHUSIASM
TEAMWORK
Xilonor makes the following communication channel available to anyone to receive reports related to practices contrary to our code of conduct or criminal conduct that may have occurred within the company.
The processing and investigation of complaints received will be confidential, protecting the identity of both the reporting and the reported parties and informing only those strictly necessary.
