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FLEGT stakeholders urge continued monitoring
22 December, 2022
As it reports on its website, www.flegtimm.eu, the EU FLEGT Independent Market Monitor (IMM) has held consultations with industry stakeholders to gauge their views on the value and future of its role tracking timber trade flows from FLEGT VPA partner countries and canvassing market opinion of FLEGT and FLEGT licensing

Clouds on hardwood horizon
20 December, 2022
The outlook in the UK hardwood market is darkening, but the last two profitable years should help insulate businesses from a downturn, say importers. Mike Jeffree reports

Tracking trade
16 December, 2020
The updated open access IMM Data Dashboard and STIX websites allow users to tailor timber trade data presentation and analysis to their requirements. Mike Jeffree reports

UK tropical trade drops by a third
11 December, 2020
Like the wider economy, “volatile” is the word that best describes UK tropical timber imports over the first eight months of 2020. Mike Jeffree reports

On board the bus to tropical sustainability
28 January, 2020
There may not be 100% agreement on the best vehicle for getting there, but there’s consensus on the need for the industry to travel together as fast as possible towards 100% tropical forestry and timber sustainability. Mike Jeffree reports from the 2019 Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition conference

Totally Tropical
19 December, 2019
The TTF’s Tropical Timber Forum featured presentations from companies on the ground in the tropical forestry belt. Sally Spencer was there

Primed for growth
20 October, 2017
New Chinese investment plans are expected to fuel its growth of hardwood consumption, reports TTJ’s Asian markets specialist

Hard Road to High Ambition
20 October, 2015
The global hardwood market is not back to pre-recession peak and faces challenges getting there. But developing markets and innovative applications open up new horizons. Mike Jeffree reports from the International Hardwood Conference in Copenhagen.

Malaysian and Indonesian exports under pressure
07 January, 2012
The Eurozone debt crisis is impacting on Asian timber producers

Autumn uplift unlikely for Asian suppliers as buyers remain cautious
06 August, 2011
Driven by demand from China and India, prices of Asian timber have continued to rise but European buyers are keeping stocks low

Tropical sawn lumber makes major gains
11 June, 2011
The market is strong for west and central African producers but whether the recent large rises in sawn timber prices can be sustained remains to be seen

Supply problems stymie plans to increase output
05 March, 2011
The price rises of 2010 have continued into this year in South-east Asia, mostly driven by log shortages

Speaking the universal language of grading
08 January, 2011
The career of international timber grading consultant Bob Sabistina has taken him far from his Ohio roots. He spoke to Maggie Young

Domestic demand enforces stability in Asian markets
13 November, 2010
Asian markets remain fairly quiet but growing, and increasingly sophisticated, domestic demand is having a stable influence

Africa sets its sights on sustainability
24 July, 2010
RACEWOOD 2010, organised by the Interafrican Forest Industries Association, took place recently in Douala in Cameroon. TTF head of sustainability Rachel Butler spoke to IFIA president Hervé Bourguignon about the event

Asian exporters active, but not in Europe
20 March, 2010
There is little European demand for Asian timber

Europe and US offer Asians little comfort
28 November, 2009
Production cuts have been effective in bringing some stability to Asia’s log and lumber trade, but global demand remains depressed

Europe has little impact on Asian improvement
25 July, 2009
Some stability is being restored in Asian markets but European buyers are notable by their absence

Exchange rates give advantage to West Africa
21 March, 2009
The current economic conditions mean West Africa is a more attractive source than Asia for European buyers, however, in the long term, Asia’s strength lies in its value-added products

Demand from neighbours helps to sustain trade
25 October, 2008
Buoyed by demand from the Asia-Pacific region, Far East markets have remained surprisingly firm