Search Results: 'International Timber'

Designs on timber
22 December, 2014
Innovation, sustainability and design excellence are celebrated in this year's Wood Awards Ireland. Sally Spencer reports.

What’s a FLEGT VPA worth?
22 December, 2014
A new market analysis initiative will assess the potential European tropical timber market value of licensing under the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade scheme. Mike Jeffree reports.

Sustainability and sales are key
22 December, 2014
Ensuring sustainable wood supplies and defending and developing their market are mutually dependent imperatives for the tropical timber trade, according to speakers at the ATIBT International Forum. Mike Jeffree reports.

Timber on the menu
22 December, 2014
Timber continues to be, literally, the base for kitchens. Keren Fallwell reports on current design trends

Despatches from the Malaysian forest
22 December, 2014
Turnstone Singapore’s Michael Buckley recently visited Malaysia and discovered a country that is keen to make the most of its timber resource but that also values its environment.

Sound proof
26 November, 2014
The success of last month’s W14 reflected the stable recovery in the timber industry. Keren Fallwell reports

Timbmet grows from the roots up
19 November, 2014
It’s not yet the pre-eminent timber business it wants to be, but Timbmet is on the way and determined to get there. Mike Jeffree reports.

Expo comes of age
19 November, 2014
Last month’s Timber Expo saw an increase in visitor numbers and there was a buzz of optimismamong exhibitors. Sally Spencer reports

Exports save the day
19 November, 2014
With their domestic market in the relative doldrums, German manufacturers are pinning many of their hopes on exports. Robin Meade reports.

Sound the fire alarm
19 November, 2014
Is your fire retardant protected timber fit for purpose? Andy Hodge, marketing director at Lonza Wood Protection, asks the question.

FLEGT forest power to the people
15 October, 2014
The EU FLEGT VPA process is giving local communities real influence in the operation of their forest and timber sectors and they’re urging the EU timber trade to back it. Mike Jeffree reports.

Back on track
15 October, 2014
An improving North American economy helped boost this year’s IWF in Atlanta. Stephen Powney of sister publication Wood- Based Panels International was there.

Object Lesson
14 October, 2014
AHEC’s latest project for the London Design Festival has delivered more than anyone could have wished for. Keren Fallwell reports

BM TRADA ‘Goes ‘Live’ At Timber Expo
26 September, 2014
BM TRADA’s David Castle explains how the organisation will share its expertise with visitors to this year’s Timber Expo.

Expo provides a shop window
26 September, 2014
Timber Expo event director Loretta Sales picks out some of the highlights of this year’s show.

The only way is up
18 August, 2014
The Canada Green Building Conference looked at the construction solutions timber could offer in an increasingly urban environment. Architect Peter Wilson reports.

Added value, global diversity
18 August, 2014
This year's Carrefour International du Bois was bigger, had a wider global reach and featured a greater diversity of timber and valueadded wood products than ever. Mike Jeffree reports.

A Global Resource
18 August, 2014
French oak sells worldwide, and French sawmillers aim for it to stay that way. Mike Jeffree reports.

Plywood giant reincarnated in veneer
18 August, 2014
An Italian veneer company has set up on the site of the former Plysorol plant

Promotion, sparkle and the EUTR
16 July, 2014
Vandecasteele export manager Geneviève Standaert says the timber industry needs more promotion, more women and less complex regulation, but she loves the business. She spoke to Mike Jeffree.