Search Results: 'EU'

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.

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

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.

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

Business input needed in fight for forest future
20 May, 2015
Following WWF’s launch of its Forests Campaign earlier this year, with supporters including James Latham, Kingfisher and the Saint-Gobain group, its Global Forest and Trade Network Programme UK manager Julia Young says a new report highlights the urgency of driving forward sustainable forest management and conservation.

Growing the Global hardwood pie
20 May, 2015
To maintain momentum in a constantly evolving global market, the US hardwood sector must follow a truly globalized promotional strategy, says American Hardwood Export Council executive director Mike Snow

Making the most of wood protection
20 March, 2015
The wood protection industry is building confidence in the performance of treated wood and helping the industry comply with regulatory controls, says Wood Protection Association director Steve Young

Eutr anniversary performance check
20 March, 2015
Peter Latham, chairman of James Latham plc, looks at the effectiveness of the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) two years after it was implemented

Investment continues
20 February, 2015
Travelling around Scotland with colleague Thomas Jay (TTJ group sales manager) recently gave ample evidence of the business confidence being felt by companies in the timber industry.

A Question of tropical trust
20 January, 2015
Driving demand for sustainable tropical wood is doing the right thing for the forests, says Ralph Ridder, managing director of the Association Technique International des Bois Tropicaux (ATIBT).

The voice of the timber Industry
20 January, 2015