Search Results: 'EU'

Climate of change
06 December, 2008
Camilla Hair of SCA Timber Supply looks at climate change impact potential in the timber supply chain

Green card for US hardwoods
08 November, 2008
The global market is increasingly looking for assurance on timber’s green credentials and a major risk analysis of US hardwood supply is the response from the American Hardwood Export Council

Due diligence is daily business
08 November, 2008

EU rules should boost eco image
25 October, 2008

Demand from neighbours helps to sustain trade
25 October, 2008
Buoyed by demand from the Asia-Pacific region, Far East markets have remained surprisingly firm

Ivory Coast completes timber tracking trial
01 September, 2008

Advantage timber
16 August, 2008
Timber's sustainability, and the industry's experience in proving it, give wood a double advantage, says ProForest director Dr Ruth Nussbaum

Pride in PEFC
02 August, 2008
Keith Fryer talks to Mike Clark, chairman of the PEFC Council board, about the organisation’s aims

Wood fuel pays dividends
02 August, 2008
Rising energy prices have reduced the payback time for Norbord’s biomass investment

Tough talk on illegal timber
21 June, 2008
Chatham House's latest illegal logging update looked at the harder line options being considered to keep illicit wood out of Europe

A lasting contribution
21 June, 2008
Treated timber can improve wood’s performance against competing materials and boost its market share, says Mikael Westin

Industry must stay on top of gloom
24 May, 2008

Legal first
10 May, 2008
African producers have made great strides in verifying their timber sources, first as legal and now increasingly sustainable

Race against time in the tropics
10 May, 2008
There are signs of hope in the battle against tropical deforestation, but the pressure is still on, says Tropical Forest Trust director Hilary Thompson

Split by same aim
26 April, 2008
Europe’s new environmental policies are challenging American hardwood exports. The following is how the situation was presented to the US National Hardwood Lumber Association by David Venables, AHEC director – Europe, Middle East and India

Just penalty, or a stretch too far?
12 April, 2008

Aims and achievement
15 March, 2008
After three years in the post, Timber Trade Federation chief executive John White is proud of the organisation’s progress, but ambitious to do more

Sense and sensibility
15 March, 2008
In his Wood Futures focus, Ulrich van Roje, managing director of the German sawmill van Roje, urges a measured approach to industry development sensitive to movement in raw material supply

Transatlantic opportunities
15 March, 2008
With US housebuilding reduced to a trickle, timber producers are looking to an already oversupplied European market. American Softwoods’ European marketing director Eddie Pearce reports

Connecting to compete
16 February, 2008
Logistics consultant Howard Knott says “creative” ways of shipping timber will have to be developed in the future