Search Results: 'Forest Research'

The elephant in the room
17 December, 2012
Building Information Modelling will be compulsory for public-funded construction in just three years time but, as Peter Wilson asks, is it the elephant in the timber industry’s boardroom?

Suitable substitutes
12 November, 2012
The timber trade needs to explore the potential of alternative tropical species, and the WWF has produced a new guide to help, reports James Horne of the environmental organisation’s Global Forest & Trade Network

Two-way trading street
27 October, 2012
The Global WoodMart in Malaysia underlined South-east Asia’s growing significance as a wood importer, as well as a supplier of timber and wood products worldwide. Mike Jeffree reports

Balcas takes MDFmouldings up a level
13 October, 2012
Leading MDF architectural mouldings manufacturer Balcas introduced visitors to KOTA – a new range of fully finished products.

CLT: the golden fleece for UK-grown timber
07 July, 2012
Peter Wilson, director of the Wood Studio at Edinburgh Napier University’s Forest Products Research Institute, says the prospect of commercial production of cross-laminated timber from UK-grown timber is moving closer to becoming a reality

Rhodes' journey
26 May, 2012
Geoff Rhodes FWISc talks to Keren Fallwell about his unerring enthusiasm for timber and the timber industry

Home-grown and growing
26 May, 2012
The British timber sector’s market share is growing but there are plenty of challenges along with the opportunities ahead. Stuart Goodall, chief executive of Confor, reports

Joining up the R&D dots
26 May, 2012
Research at Napier University is finding new uses for the UK’s forest resource

Logs and legislation in Africa
12 May, 2012
Amelie de Borchgrave, of political and security risk adviser Stirling Assynt, assesses the risks associated with Africa and the safeguards companies will have to adopt to adhere to new EU regulations

Seeing the wood for the trees
31 March, 2012
Treemetrics has developed forest measurement technology to bring lean manufacturing to the wood supply chain

Value-added ethics
03 March, 2012
Jewson is taking steps to help its customers understand the value of certification and chain of custody.

New chair for PEFC UK
02 February, 2012