Search Results: 'Defra'

Look to the future
24 November, 2007
TTJ's Wood Future conference, sponsored by the Medite 2016 Forum, and supported by TRADA, provided much food for thought

Certified success
10 November, 2007
Defra's Central Point of Expertise on Timber (CPET) is run by ProForest, a private company co-founded by Dr Ruth Nussbaum. Keith Fryer follows her career path

Why Wood Futures?
25 October, 2007
The TTJ Wood Futures Conference has an impressive array of speakers addressing timber’s place in an increasingly environmentally-aware market

Proving your point
15 September, 2007
Carbon footprints, ecological rucksacks, or ISO 14001? There are many ways to prove your company’s environmental credentials – but does anyone understand them? Dr Alistair Bromhead looks at the range of environmental badges

Same aims, different tactics
18 August, 2007

UK industry takes greater share of domestic market
21 July, 2007
UK mills have benefited from the global softwood shortage and, while prices have been rising, there is some thought that they may have peaked

Policy countdown
21 July, 2007
On July 5, Bob Andrew of Defra and Dr Ruth Nussbaum of CPET headed the launch meeting of the consultation phase on the implementation of changes to the timber procurement policy which will take place in April 2009

Speed meeting
26 May, 2007
Action Sustainability is running Meet the Buyer sessions, enabling suppliers to meet key procurement officers. T Brewer director Keith Fryer went along to the most recent event

Reasons to be cheerful
03 February, 2007
Andy Roby, the TTF's head of environment and corporate social responsibility, reports on the progress the federation is making in improving the timber trades’ environmental profile

Certification has a common goal
03 February, 2007

Raising the PR bar
20 January, 2007
Timber Show press officer Martin Pearce was convinced wood needed to raise its profile virtually from the moment he started in the industry