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Taking the helm at a time of change
21 December, 2015
Change is required to the structure of the timber trade’s main representative body the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) in order to reflect what its members need in a changing world, says its new president Keith Fryer.

Tree of anti-illegal timber knowledge
21 December, 2015
Enforcement agencies and others engaged with anti-illegal timber regulation worldwide now convene regularly in an exchange workshop to discuss and swap best practice for strengthening implementation. Its acronym is TREE and its roots are spreading. Facilitator Jade Saunders reports.

A pause for thought
21 December, 2015
As I write this comment at the start of December, Christmas is literally just around the corner.

Pallets and panels
25 November, 2015
It’s been a case of pallets and panels just recently, as several important annual events in these sectors take place in the UK and Ireland.

FSC UK fired by the global green goal
25 November, 2015
In its first 20 years, FSC UK has played a key role in taking environmental certification from an optional extra to a must have for much of the country’s timber sector. Fired by support from the industry and being part of a global body united in the aim of maintaining the world’s forest, executive director Rosie Teasdale says it will build on this achievement in its next two decades

A plan comes together
20 October, 2015
“I love it when a plan comes together”. So goes the often quoted line from a certain 1980s TV show.

Match Funds for Tropical Sustainability
20 October, 2015
The EU Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition is moving to its next phase – match funding industry sustainable procurement initiatives at companies and trade federations Europe-wide. It’s in association with the European Timber Trade Federation and Secretary General André de Boer sees it as a key development

Forestry testament of youth
20 October, 2015
In September the World Forestry Congress in Durban was addressed on environment, forestry and timber issues by three winners of a competition for young speakers from tropical timber supplier countries. One was Charles Batte, 28, a Ugandan medical doctor and founder of Tree Adoption Uganda, a youth-led social enterprise for reforestation, and its TreeCapital Programme. This is based on his presentation.

Timber industry on the acquisition trail
21 September, 2015
Some of the largest UK timber sector companies have been on the acquisition trail this last month.

More Trees, please
21 September, 2015
The UK has world-class operations in the forest products sector, but unless new commercial conifer crops are planted very urgently, the industry’s recent significant gains will be lost. That’s the stark warning from UK Forest Products Association Executive Director David Sulman for the governments of Scotland, England and Wales.

Catching a Wave
20 August, 2015
How exactly do you catch a wave? In the body boarding sense I mean.

Timber now has the training tools
20 August, 2015
Proskills has been working with UK timber for nearly a decade, the result, a new raft of dedicated industry qualifications and training framework. Here apprenticeship and qualifications development manager Lisa Williamson highlights what’s been achieved, but also urges the sector to make the most of its new training tools.

CLT aims for Pinnacle of Success
20 August, 2015
B & K Structures managing director Nick Milestone has been involved in some of the UK’s most ground-breaking cross laminated timber-based construction projects, including the award-winning new BSkyB Believe in Better Building. So why, he asks, is CLT now reaching such new and impressive heights?

Ash dieback – The phoney war is over
20 July, 2015
In some parts of the country reports of the threat posed by Ash dieback seemed exaggerated. But now, says English Woodlands Timber managing director Tom Compton, it’s spread far and wide. And it’s serious.

Integration breeds content?
20 July, 2015
To achieve the integration needed to drive construction and associated supply chains forward demands a significant uplift in recruitment, and, says Snows Timber managing director Jim Peryer, that demands greater sharing of knowledge.

A new beginning
20 June, 2015
So, the moment has finally come. The Confederation of Timber Industries is off the ground and what’s more it’s also got its new chief executive.

CTI’s key role
20 June, 2015
The new Confederation of Timber Industries (CTI) can help timber play a central role in a low carbon future, says TTF chief executive David Lennan.

Not perfect, but progress
20 June, 2015
There’s still no date set for the arrival of the first EU FLEGT-licensed timber in Europe, but the EU timber sector should still be proud of its significant advances in legality assurance, says T Brewer & Co director Keith Fryer

New Perspectives on Preservatives
20 June, 2015
The Swedish timber treatment sector is far from behind the technical times, but it has set its sights on pushing back the boundaries, advancing product capabilities and broadening its markets still further, writes Swedish Wood Preserving Association managing director Mikael Westin.

Seismic Shift
20 May, 2015
Well I said last month it was a dangerous game second guessing the voting intentions of the public. And so it turned out.