Search Results: 'Financial Times'

Timber All The Way
21 November, 2016
Keith Fryer has built up considerable experience in the timber merchanting world and is also now Timber Trade Federation (TTF) president. Stephen Powney interviewed him

The “science” of buying and selling
20 September, 2016
Timber pricing has a ‘wood’ science aspect – economics, psychology and sociology all playing a part in the equation. So is the timber trade capable, by application of those sciences, of change for the better? Andrew True, a recently retired trader himself, says yes

The key to stability
21 March, 2016
Europe currently holds the key to overall market stability in the tropical timber market

Waiting Game
21 March, 2016
Pressure exists from Northern European mills for increased prices after Sterling’s recent fall but patience may be required before shippers’ can claw back the currency reduction in the UK

Celtic phoenix rises
24 February, 2016
Ireland’s economy is growing but for the country’s sawmills, the UK remains their focus. Keren Fallwell reports

Raising up an army
24 February, 2016
New leader of the UK Timber Trade Federation (TTF) David Hopkins want to mobilise the ranks of the timber industry to more effectively grow the market for wood. He talked to Stephen Powney