Search Results: 'International Timber'

Rising prices, higher profile
16 December, 2006

Better for life
09 December, 2006
Life cycle analysis shows the environmental benefits of coated timber over PVCu windows. Sikkens business development manager Geoff Taylor reports

Breaches of ISPM 15 may be prosecuted
25 November, 2006

Value-added in Wales
25 November, 2006
Mike Marchant of UKWoodchain reports on progress towards linking value added manufacturing with procurement policies in Wales

Conference goes global
25 November, 2006
John Park, of Canada Wood UK, reports from the first International Softwood Conference, held in Québec City in October

A forum to form the future
11 November, 2006

Invest and prosper
11 November, 2006
A boom period in Swedish sawmilling is enabling the industry to invest in the future. Johanna Blom, of the Swedish Forest Industries Federation, reports

A framework for the future
11 November, 2006
Medite has launched an international initiative to forecast timber industry developments over the next 10 years

Opportunity abroad
11 November, 2006
The expanding interest in timber building is attracting companies from across Europe to the UK’s markets. But is the sales traffic mainly one-way? Camilla Hair of SCA Timber Supply investigates

Helveta receives £2m funding boost
18 October, 2006
Oxford-based Helveta Ltd has received a £2m funding boost to help expand its TraceElite timber traceability solution and take on new staff.

Wood energy
14 October, 2006
There was plenty of enthusiasm for timber at this year's 100% Detail

Cashing in on carbon credits
14 October, 2006

Growing appeal
14 October, 2006
David Castle trod the walkways of GLEE and discovered that timber is still a main contender in the garden products sector

All active on the home front
14 October, 2006
Restricted supply from overseas is playing into the hands of UK mills, and full order books are being reported

Countdown to W6
30 September, 2006
W6 takes place at the NEC from October 8-11.Around 350 exhibitors have already booked space.Benfield ATT is supplying a timber frame house.TRADA and FIRA seminars will run throughout the show.

Quality time
30 September, 2006
Just under 1,000 visitors and 61 exhibitors were recorded at the Timber Show.The organisers are already planning for next year’s show.Timbmet Silverman launched a range of textured 3D decorative panels.Stewart Milne Timber Systems erected and dismantled the upper floor of a house on each day of the show.

Mills struggle to keep up
30 September, 2006
Many large mills in Latvia have full order books, but not enough logs to satisfy demand. Fibre shortages have made it difficult for sawmills to obtain logs at an economic price, and the situation is becoming critical

Taking the costs on board
16 September, 2006
Talk among the panel industry’s major players is largely focused on rising energy costs – but there are opportunities as well as obstacles ahead

Informing the informers
16 September, 2006
As part of its promotional campaign, wood for good hosts educational trips for journalists

All sides lobby on illegal logging
19 August, 2006
Greenpeace protests might have diverted attention beforehand, but the timber trade gave a good account of itself at the latest RIIA meeting on illegal logging