About Birketts

Over 40 years of experience underpins Birketts Bog Mats’ trusted reputation in the UK and global markets. We are a British business and a major supplier of timber access mats (or bog and crane mats as they are also known) exporting all around the world from multiple depots in the UK.

The company was established in 1974, as a fencing contractor supplying companies in Cumbria. It quickly became one of the UK’s leading fencing suppliers to the pipeline fencing market, becoming known as a family firm with honest values and ethics.

In 1993, Juanita Watts (formerly Birketts) identified a gap in the market for the ‘supply only’ of pipeline materials and began to use her managerial expertise to develop this side of Birketts’ business. Very quickly the company began to supply materials to many of the leading gas pipeline companies in the UK and Ireland as well as internationally.

In the early 2000s, a very large client, who was one of the UK’s leading pipeline companies at the time, asked Juanita to look into the sourcing and supply of hardwood bog mats. The client had been the victim of unreliable supply and had suffered quality issues with the mats they had been receiving from their existing crane mat supplier. Knowing that Birketts was a company they could trust, they relied on Juanita to come up with a solution. That is exactly what Juanita did and, as a result, Birketts Bog Mats was born and soon became a major player in the bog mat industry.

Within ten years, Birketts Bog Mats had established a firm foothold in the industry, working with major sawmills throughout Europe, Africa and South America. The company focuses on providing clients with the best quality mats available, but at a value-for-money price. With this formula being underpinned by Birketts Bog Mats’ unswerving commitment to customer service, it is no surprise that the company has become one of the UK and Europe’s leading bog and crane mat suppliers.