Wholesale supply
Wholesale Firewood
Bulk firewood for garden centres, fuel and biomass distributors, and hospitality businesses with a wood oven or fireplace, stocked ahead of the winter heating season.
Maderas Caamaño supplies wholesale firewood to garden centres, fuel and biomass distributors, and hospitality businesses running a wood oven or fireplace. Buying at wholesale volume is a different exercise from picking up a single net for home use: it means planning volume, species and packaging format around your business and your restocking cycle. We work with Galician oak, eucalyptus and compressed hardwood heat logs, cut to the standard 25cm and 33cm lengths, either air-dried (around 20-25% moisture) or kiln-dried (below 20%). A single order can be prepared in one format or split across several, depending on how you plan to resell it, and can combine more than one species where that suits your customer mix.
At a glance
| Species available | Galician oak, eucalyptus, compressed hardwood heat logs |
|---|---|
| Log lengths | 25cm and 33cm |
| Moisture | Air-dried ~20-25% or kiln-dried below 20% |
| Packaging formats | Loose bulk, 10/15/20kg nets, shrink-wrapped bundles, bulk bags, palletised |
| Typical full truckload | ~24-26 tonnes or up to ~33 EPAL pallet positions |
| Indicative lead time | 1-3 weeks depending on volume and season |
| Incoterms | EXW, FOB or delivered, by agreement |
Seasonal stocking cadence ahead of winter
Wholesale buyers don't reorder firewood once stock runs out — they plan orders ahead of time to stay covered through the peak of the heating season. A garden centre or biomass distributor typically staggers orders across the autumn rather than waiting for temperatures to drop and demand to spike. The indicative lead time is 1-3 weeks depending on the volume ordered and the time of season, so it's worth booking volume with enough margin before the highest-consumption months. For a hospitality business running a wood oven, the same principle applies to recurring orders: setting a regular cadence with your supplier avoids depending on last-minute orders, when availability can be tighter for every buyer. Planning ahead also makes it easier to adjust the mix of species and packaging formats to match each end customer's expected demand, rather than reacting once a particular format sells out. Distributors who order early in the season also have more flexibility to spread deliveries across several smaller loads instead of committing to one large shipment at short notice.
Choosing species at volume: oak vs eucalyptus vs compressed hardwood logs
At distribution scale, species choice isn't only a matter of preference — it affects burn time, packaging profile and which end customer a given batch suits. Galician oak burns more slowly and is common among buyers looking for longer-lasting firewood. Eucalyptus burns faster and is widely used for its availability and its volume-to-price balance. Compressed hardwood logs are a densified format with controlled moisture below 20% from kiln drying, aimed at buyers who value a uniform product that handles more predictably than conventional firewood. A distributor serving several customer segments — from home consumers to hospitality — can hold a mix of species in stock depending on demand from each channel, rather than sticking to a single line. Keeping more than one species in stock also makes it possible to steer customers toward whichever species best matches their appliance or expected burn time.
Packaging options at scale
Firewood is supplied in different formats depending on the buyer's volume and sales channel. For large-scale bulk distribution, it's supplied loose, loaded directly for onward bagging or local resale. For point-of-sale resale, it's offered in 10kg, 15kg and 20kg nets or in shrink-wrapped bundles, formats sized for a garden centre or filling-station shelf. For higher-volume buyers such as biomass or fuel distributors, firewood is supplied in bulk bags, and the whole order can be palletised to optimise loading onto a truck or into a sea container. Choosing the right format depends on how you resell the product — a single order can combine, for example, bulk bags for your own warehouse and pre-packed nets ready for direct sale to the public. Palletising also makes warehouse handling easier with a forklift, whether the load is going onto a truck or into a sea container, and keeps mixed-format orders organised when different packaging types are loaded together.
How wholesale buying differs from a single-net purchase
Buying at wholesale volume changes several things compared with a retail purchase of a single net. Orders are sized by full truckload or by fractions of a truckload — a standard European road trailer carries roughly 24-26 tonnes, or up to around 33 EPAL pallet positions — which lets you plan logistics cost by volume rather than by unit. Delivery terms are agreed as EXW, FOB or delivered, whichever fits your logistics best. A distribution order is also typically placed ahead of the intended resale date, whereas a home buyer's single net responds to an immediate need. If your business orders on a recurring basis, coordinating species, format and delivery timing with your supplier makes it easier to hold consistent stock through the whole season. This kind of volume planning is particularly useful heading into the highest-demand weeks of the season, when having stock already covered matters more than being able to place a last-minute order, and it means logistics costs can be planned per shipment rather than reworked for every individual sale.
Frequently asked questions
What's the minimum order for wholesale firewood?
There's no fixed published minimum — we handle orders from part-truckloads up to full truckloads. Contact us with the volume you need and we'll advise on how to organise it.
How is delivery organised for a large-volume order?
Firewood is supplied by full truckload or in fractions, depending on order volume, with EXW, FOB or delivered terms agreed between us. The indicative lead time is 1-3 weeks depending on volume and season.
What documentation comes with a wholesale order?
Road shipments travel with the standard European CMR consignment note. For B2B buyers in another EU country with a VIES-verified VAT number, the supply is typically VAT-exempt at origin under the reverse-charge mechanism.
What packaging formats are available for bulk buyers?
We supply loose bulk firewood, 10kg, 15kg and 20kg nets, shrink-wrapped bundles and bulk bags, with the option to palletise a full order to optimise loading onto a truck or container.
