Originally Birmingham Boards & Kidderminster Timber, purchased by the Arnold Laver in 1995. The Arnold Laver Birmingham depot is located in the Oldbury area of Birmingham and carries extensive decorative laminate stock holding.
With 52 employees and headed up by:
Depot Director Terry Palmer
Sales Manager Neil Wyatt
Operations Manager Simon Marsh

Occupying a 5 acre site with 100,000sqft of undercover storage and servicing the Midlands area for timber and sheets but Nationwide for decorative materials.
Oldbury has just installed a new beam saw milling facilities for panel / sheet material cutting and also installed a new Bonding press for fabrication of HPL laminate to MDF & Plywood substrates.
Neil Wyatt comments: “We carry what we believe to be one of the widest timber and timber-based product ranges in the UK and we pride ourselves on the high standards of our timber. We aim to be able to meet virtually any requirement from stock. When we can’t, we’ll source it specially. We also offer a full machining service and can supply everything from simple lengths of timber to intricate mouldings.”
Bonding Press Beam saw
- Extensive laminate stock holding
- Extensive Melamine faced MDF and chipboard furniture panels
- Laminate Press for flat Bonding (see PDF)
- Beam saw for cut to size pan
- MFC and Laminates
- Hardwood and Oak
- Composite Decking and Timber Decking
- Premium quality internal doors, door-sets and door frames
- Solid / engineered flooring
- Rigid German kitchens delivered to your door within 24 hours
- Veneers
- Cladding and Mouldings
- MDF
- Plywood, OSB,
Specialist products available from our Oldbury depot:
One Skin
One skin Matt is exquisite and soft to touch – See the metallic and stone finishes on the website.
Leeuwenburgh Veneers
Top range realwood veneers – Well worth a look and exceptional quality for real wood and come as a pre-finished laminate.
Meganite
One skin Matt is exquisite and soft to touch – See the metallic and stone finishes on the website.
FINSA
This is the bread and butter range middle of the road and good value – Lots of decors to pick from and priced competitively.
Light Beton
Concrete finished board which is real concrete. This product is fantastic and comes in several decors.
RIVA
These boards are ALPI Veneers which are layered, again some really interesting boards here. These panels come in an array of finishes and have the wow factor
Paludet
Mirror boards – This a perfect for your hanging wall system and will certainly give the wow factor – Available in several colours / tints
Surforma
Surforma by Sonae is our core range for the washroom market – Some nice solid colours and wood grains available – These are in jumbo boards and very competitively priced.
AGT
The boards can be utilised and come in high gloss finishes and also soft touch – Superb quality and a very competitive price compared to other boards in the market.