Search Results: 'Forest Research'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No time to speculate
25 April, 2023
Views vary on prospects for the hardwood trade through 2023, but it won’t be the bull market of the last two years, say businesses. Mike Jeffree reports

2023 - Plotting a course through choppy waters
15 February, 2023
A relative degree of calm may have returned to UK politics. The economic picture is less than pretty, however, with forecasts for 1.3% shrinkage in GDP over the year. Consequently representatives of timber and related businesses and industry associations asked for their outlook by TTJ see challenges for the sector and its markets through 2023. But, at the same time, they identify opportunities and highlight their plans and projects for making the most of them. Mike Jeffree reports

Essential forestry skills for the future
13 February, 2023
Louise Simpson, executive director of the Institute for Chartered Foresters (ICF), on the first ever degree level forestry apprenticeship scheme

Symposium charts changing markets
22 December, 2022
Panels manufacturers from across the world gathered in Hamburg for the 12th European Wood-based Panels Symposium, hearing the latest economic forecasts and technical updates for the industry. Stephen Powney was there to bring this report

Tackling toxicity continues
21 December, 2022
Ian King, chief operating officer at Zeroignition, explains how innovation has led to a generation of low-toxicity fire retardants and why this should lead to an uptick in the use timber for construction

Forestry first
18 October, 2022
Mick Bottomley, head of marketing and sales at Forestry and Land Scotland, explains the importance of planting the right tree in the right place

Carbon, climate and conifers
18 October, 2022
With emissions reduction efforts now unlikely to limit global warming to the critical 1.5⁰C, much focus is now on Natural Climate Solutions as part of efforts to capture and store carbon. Stuart Goodall, chief executive of the Confederation of Forest Industries (Confor) looks at how productive forestry can play a significant role in carbon capture and argues the case for large-scale and urgent productive planting