Search Results: 'Forest Research'

Research focuses on British timber
18 December, 2010
Peter Wilson outlines new research that will benefit the home-grown resource

Engaging in dialogue
13 November, 2010
An international conference in Malaysia highlighted the market benefits of timber legality verification, and some of the obstacles that stand in its way

Timber can cut through the greenwash
30 October, 2010
The carbon agenda provides an opportunity for timber, says Dr Ed Suttie, BRE director of timber

Bring on the evolution
16 October, 2010
Geoff Rhodes, marketing and business development director for Coillte Panel Products, believes that effective communication with specifiers is key to progress

James Jones wins innovation prize
23 September, 2010

Research hits new heights
07 August, 2010
Swedish wood technology research has never been as strong as it is now, writes Jöran Jermer of SP Trätek, the timber-focused arm of the SP Technical Research Institute

Tough present, brighter future
07 August, 2010
The Swedish timber industry has felt the effects of the global downturn, but its long-term outlook remains bright, write Bertil Stener, director wood products, and Marianne Svensen, director branch and market analyses unit, at the Swedish Forest Industries Federation

Supplying the answer
24 July, 2010
Forest industry development is a vital part of COFORD’s work and at its heart is a project to forecast roundwood supply and demand to 2028. COFORD chairman Michael Lynn explains some of the findings

Timber industry must work faster and smarter
24 July, 2010
Timber has “fantastic potential”, but the industry must make it easier to specify and buy wood, writes BSW chairman and TTF president Martin Gale

Driving efficiencies
10 July, 2010
Good logistics planning can cut costs and carbon. Richard Faint, commercial manager of the Logistics Institute at Hull University Business School, explains

Fuels for thought
29 May, 2010
As forecasters warn that wood fuel demand in the UK could outstrip supply, UPM is exploring alternative sources. UPM Tilhill timber operations director Peter Whitfield reports

Plantation forests will meet the supply challenge
20 February, 2010
Weyerhaeuser’s European commercial director John Guerin says South America will become a major player in the timber industry