News Bertranges forest

The Charlois group has many customers all over the world, including Greece. A delegation spent a few days visiting Murlin and the group’s various sites in the Nièvre region.   Three days in France, including two full days in Nièvre to discover cooperage, of course, but also forestry and stave mill trades. The program was […]

It seems as if the sun had been ordered on purpose for this morning spent harvesting liber cambium, the ultra-moisturizing active ingredient in La Chênaie’s PETRASEVE® line, which is harvested once a year in the Bertranges forest.   The shipment had been planned for just over a week. Given the recent weather, rain gear and […]

They came as neighbors, from Sancerre, Verdigny to be precise, where they’ve been cultivating their own vines for several generations. Firmin Dezat, who runs the estate with the same name, accompanied by his parents and his entire team, spent a day in the land of merrandier. A day well spent.   It all starts with […]

As mentioned in previous instalments of the series devoted to photographs taken by Jean-Louis Binder in Murlin in the 1950s and 1960s, Maison Charlois used to produce both split timber and sawn timber, including a large number of railway sleepers.   The market for railway sleepers was massive back then. To understand the size of […]

Thanks to Jean-Louis Binder’s photographs, we can provide a visual record of Maison Charlois’ activities in the 1950s and 1960s. At that time, the Charlois family already had in its DNA a desire to make the most of every raw material, shaping all parts of the oak tree, whatever their dimensions. The workshop produced both […]

Once received on the Murlin site, the logs were cut into sections. This step was carried out with a two-men chainsaw. This type of chainsaw became widespread in sawmills after the Second World War: one man was placed on the engine side and the second at the other end to guide the blade.   The […]

The Charlois family has always enjoyed a close relationship with the Bertranges forest and its century-old oak trees. It was therefore only natural for the Charlois family to have sourced, for several centuries, high-quality oak staves from this exceptional forest that is now managed by the ONF (National Forest Office). These photographs taken by Jean-Louis […]

Friday October 6 was the traditional Autumn timber sale of the ONF Bourgogne-Ouest agency (Nièvre and Yonne), in Clamecy. 8:30 am, Romain-Rolland room, 1st floor of the Town Hall. The room is filling up fast. The bidding is about to begin. Among 30 or so buyers present, or on videoconference, Maison Charlois is well represented, […]

ONF Fall Sale of Nevers (October 15, 2021)   The big annual autumn sale of hardwood lumber from the public forests of Nièvre and Yonne departments was organized last week by the ONF in Clamecy, in the north of Nièvre *. Timber sales, organized throughout the year, are part of the forest management process necessary […]

Beauty of winter sceneries in the Bertranges forest, magnified by the photograph Christophe Deschanel.