Search Results: 'Covers'

The bespoken word
15 December, 2001
Koskisen remains a major player amid formidable competition from Finnish forest product giants by working closely with its clients to customise product developments.

Economics and the environment
15 December, 2001
The Finnish forest industries are fronting up to the dual pressures of a depressed international market and demands for eco-certification

Under the weather
15 December, 2001
The Baltics timber industry is getting into a cold sweat over the wet and mild weather which is interrupting harvesting

The good, the bad and the uncertain
01 December, 2001
In the long-term, there is potential for growth and success for the British timber industry but, in the short term, it is faced with high log prices, competition from lower priced imports and the increased use of recycled fibre

Exports fail to reach potential
10 November, 2001
The Russian government believes that forest certification and foreign investment are needed for the industry to fulfill its export potential

Staying in the pink
03 November, 2001
Importers of Ghanaian hardwoods are facing a tightening supply situation. They would do well to cast their nets wider and consider some of the country's lesser-used species

If you've got IT, flaunt IT
21 April, 2001
The smaller, independent timber merchant can benefit from industry specific software systems just as much as the big players.

A growth industry
17 March, 2001
A report on the innovative efforts of three different aspect of a prospering market

Regulations cause confusion
10 March, 2001
The perceived failure of local authorities to enforce EPA emission regulations has angered some wood finishing equipment makers who have developed their products in anticipation of full compliance – apparently long before the rest of the industry

Bearing the eco standard
24 February, 2001
Uptake of environmental management systems is increasing. Alistair Bromhead takes a look at their costs and also their benefits

A long affair with timber
17 February, 2001
When Denholm secured a cargo of timber for its first ship, the SS David Sinclair, back in the 1870s, it was the beginning of a long lasting relationship with the forest products trade. Sarah Hacker, marketing director, outlines some of the many developments which are now taking place

Assessing the risk
10 February, 2001
Keith Dobson offers practical guidance on the process of risk assessment – an activity which must be carried out by employers to meet the legal requirements imposed on them by PUWER '98

Morgan Timber moves cleanly upmarket
20 January, 2001
Following its successful move into upmarket supply of quality hardwood, Morgan Timber has made further investment in its mill with a new extraction system