Search Results: 'Forest Research'

BioComposites Centre’s Rob Elias to join MDF Recovery
03 April, 2024
The director of the well-known BioComposites Centre at Bangor University in Wales is to join MDF Recovery as head of business development.

Timber on top form
29 February, 2024
The Wood Awards celebrate the use of timber in standout architecture and product design – and 2023 provided a bumper crop

TimberTec selected as ERP provider by Western Archrib
29 January, 2024
Western Archrib, part of the Alberta, Canada-based Northland Group of companies, has selected TiCom, TimberTec’s market-leading timber ERP solution. This includes the ERP and the MES system for Western Archrib’s new glulam plant in Alberta, which is part of a C$82m investment to triple Western Archrib’s glulam manufacturing capacity with a go-live date of mid-2025.

TIMCON highlights collaboration and data as key to success
25 January, 2024
Collaboration between different sector organisations is increasingly important to achieving shared targets for the timber industry, according to John Dye, president of the Timber Packaging & Pallet Confederation (TIMCON).

Lavers’ Labours Last
20 December, 2023
Dan Ridley-Ellis looks back at the work of Gwendoline M Lavers

A year of industry collaboration
20 December, 2023
The Timber in Construction Group is helping co-ordinate industry input into strategies for driving use of timber in building, writes Structural Timber Association chief executive Andrew Carpenter

Ireland bound
19 December, 2023
Geoff Rhodes, independent consultant and former long-serving marketing and sales director at MEDITE looks back 40 years to Medford Corporation’s multi-million dollar investment in the Clonmel factory

Sustainable tropical forestry
19 December, 2023
The BMRC has been formed to underpin international market access and boost the investability of tropical timber producing countries with independently endorsed sustainable forestry systems. Mike Jeffree reports

Downbeat economic forecasts shared at TDUK markets conference in London
09 November, 2023
UK and international timber traders gathered in strong numbers for Timber Development UK’s Global Market Conference in London on Wednesday at a time of difficult market dynamics.

Going local
26 October, 2023
Structural engineer and timber technologist Iain Thew looks at the role for UK hardwoods in construction

Cautious positivity
24 October, 2023
British-grown timber remains competitive and sawmills are continuing to invest. Sally Spencer reports

Timber innovation for forests of the future
24 October, 2023
The UK should aim towards reducing its reliance on others for its timber, writes Gareth Waters, head of forest management support at Forestry and Land Scotland

International Softwood Conference attracts record-breaking delegate numbers
16 October, 2023
A record-breaking 333-strong crowd of delegates attended this year’s International Softwood conference in Vienna to debate the availability of wood raw materials and other market dynamics.

Ebbs and flows for French
28 August, 2023
France’s timber sector has felt the impact of global economic volatility since 2019, although one thing remains constant, the UK remains its biggest oak export market. Thibaud Le Moign of the industry’s international marketing body French Timber reports

The next wave in forestry’s future
28 August, 2023
Canada’s vast forests are an invaluable environmental, social and economic resource. That’s the message of the country’s C$75bn forestry sector to the new generation reports Kerry Patterson-Baker, vice-president, communications and public affairs Forest Products Association of Canada

US softwood keeps up powerful run
28 August, 2023
The US softwood industry remains in robust good health, with continuing near record exports and southern pine shipments at an all-time high. American Softwoods consultant Charles Trevor reports

New chair for IOM3 wood technology group
28 June, 2023
Dr Morwenna Spear has been appointed as chair of the Wood Technology Group Andrew True reports

Forest to fence
28 June, 2023
The Wood Protection Association provided technical input on a recent workshop in Scotland on treated wood quality

AI and IoT future game changers for the forestry industry
12 June, 2023
Open sharing of information about forests is of great importance in order to protect the climate and preserve biodiversity. Currently, Sweden’s Linnaeus University is running the Forest 4.0 initiative, an excellence centre for the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) in the forestry sector in Lithuania. The goal is to develop innovative solutions that encompass the entire process of modern forestry.

CollectiveCrunch partners with Oregon State University
01 June, 2023
CollectiveCrunch, creator of an AI-powered platform that enables sustainable forestry at scale, has launched a pilot project with the Oregon State University (OSU) College of Forestry. The collaboration marks CollectiveCrunch’s first forest carbon partnership in the US market, and sets the stage for further growth opportunities for the company.