Search Results: 'Timber Decking and Cladding Association'

Getting wise to size
29 February, 2024
Guidance on cladding and installation should be followed to ensure year-round performance, writes Timber Decking and Cladding Association director Janet Sycamore

WPC market bouncing back
26 April, 2023
After a 2022 which saw sales of WPC decking stall, the new year brought with it signs of increased enquiry levels and more positivity in the landscaping market. Stephen Powney reports

Securing the future of timber decking
25 April, 2023
Janet Sycamore, director of the Timber Decking & Cladding Association provides a market update on the decking sector

Promotion plans
20 December, 2022
Wood Protection Association director Gordon Ewbank explains why promoting the correct specification of preservative treated wood is crucial

Learning their timber craft
18 October, 2022
Students delivered stunning timber designs in the Southside Hereford University Design Challenge earlier this year. Tabitha Binding, head of education and engagement at Timber Development UK, reports

WPCS gain more market share
11 April, 2022
Recent years have been a story of wood plastic composites gaining increasing market share in the UK decking market and also tapping the cladding and fencing sectors. The pandemic has accelerated their use further, according to players in the market. Stephen Powney reports

Positive Prospects
11 April, 2022
Janet Sycamore, director of operations at the Timber Decking & Cladding Association reports on a buoyant decking sector

Business Blossoms
08 April, 2022
The garden products sector has continued to benefit from the new stay-at-home culture. Sally Spencer reports

Trade supply relationships more important than ever after Ukraine conflict threatens stability
22 March, 2022
No sooner had Covid-19 restrictions dropped then war breaks out in eastern Europe.

Trade supply relationships more important than ever after Ukraine conflict threatens stability
22 March, 2022
No sooner had Covid-19 restrictions dropped then war breaks out in eastern Europe.

Buoyant times for cladding
04 February, 2022
Aesthetic and technical advances, combined with its environmental credentials, are developing the market for timber cladding. Timber Decking and Cladding Association director of operations Janet Sycamore reports

Teams triumph in housing challenge
05 October, 2021
Tabitha Binding, university and regional engagement manager for TTF and TRADA explains how this year’s University Design Challenge went online for the first time

Little sign of hardwood market relief
21 July, 2021
Hardwood supply and demand remain seriously out of kilter and the arrival of a breakbulk timber cargo from Asia underlines unprecedented container costs. Mike Jeffree reports

Law Bows out at Lonza
15 June, 2021
David Law, a stalwart of the UK timber treatments sector, has retired after 36 years of service. Colleague Andy Hodge recounts David’s sterling career

New Times, New Trade Body
15 June, 2021
Timber Development is the name and aim of the UK’s new trade body. Mike Jeffree interviewed chief executive David Hopkins on its launch

United we stand
15 June, 2021
The TTF and WPA are united in their campaign to grow demand for preservative treated wood. The WPA’s chief executive officer, Gordon Ewbank, reports

Decking popularity rockets
30 April, 2021
A nation in lockdown in 2020 turned to garden improvement projects and deckingdemand soared, reports the Timber Decking & Cladding Association

AFI takes new stance on treated timber in ground contact
11 March, 2021
The Association of Fencing Industries (AFI) is recommending that fencing installers only use chemically treated timber in ground contact where this is a specific requirement by the client because of concerns raised in an AFI survey about early failures of treated fence posts.

Round the clock cladding
24 February, 2021
Cladding companies saw surging demand in 2020, and the TDCA sees the market continuing to grow and evolve, writes marketing manager Barbara Westmoreland

For better or for worse?
24 February, 2021
2020 was a tumultuous year, but will 2021 be better or worse? TTJ asked key players in the industry how they think the year may pan out