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Obituary – Tony Walton
17 December, 2012
Tony Walton passed away peacefully on December 13 after a long fight with illness.

LP wins beam CE approval
07 December, 2012
LP Building Products has received CE marking approval for its construction materials in the EU for four grades of LP SolidStart LVL.

China urged to act on illegal timber
27 November, 2012
China has been accused of standing on the sidelines as the world’s second biggest economy devastates forests by importing illegal timber on a massive scale.

Pods demonstrate energy efficiency
26 November, 2012
Pods using timber from Saint-Gobain’s Pasquill and International Timber operations made their debut at the Passivhaus Conference at the University of Nottingham.

Global markets help DLH & Rougier
23 November, 2012
International tropical timber and panel product suppliers DLH and Rougier have reported growing business in Asia and the Americas while turnover in western Europe shrinks.

CLT project over to industry
12 November, 2012
The baton for a project to make cross-laminated timber (CLT) in the UK out of home-grown softwood is ready to be passed from the researchers to prospective manufacturers.

More cuts as Scandinavia battles poor trading
29 October, 2012
Stora Enso has launched into a round of closures and cost-cutting measures as weak demand and a strong krona have hit hard the fortunes of Scandinavian timber and forestry suppliers.

TTF and Confor to jointly host International Softwood Conference
25 October, 2012
Confor will joint host next year’s International Softwood Conference (ISC) in Scotland with the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) in recognition of the UK sawmilling sector’s growing importance to the UK timber trade.

Obituary - Nigel Barrett
24 October, 2012
Nigel Barrett, who was well-known to many in the pallet industry, died on October 14. He was 50.

BSW chief executive wins prestigious business award
15 October, 2012
BSW chief executive Tony Hackney has been named as a category winner in the prestigious Ernst & Young UK Entrepreneur of the Year awards.

New management for government timber procurement agency
05 October, 2012
The management of the government’s flagship Central Point of Expertise on Timber (CPET) has changed hands from Proforest to Efeca.

Timber Expo visitor numbers increase
27 September, 2012
As the doors shut on this year’s Timber Expo yesterday, organisers reported delight at a provisional 15% growth on visitor numbers.

Timber frame conference focuses on fire safety
21 September, 2012
A major London conference on fire risk solutions for timber structures will feature input from MPs, the insurance industry, the UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA), HSE and the fire service.

Latham’s makes it a hat-trick
17 September, 2012
James Latham plc has won the TTJ Timber Trader of the Year Award for the third consecutive year – and for the seventh time since the Awards started in 1997.

JELD-WEN football helps cancer charity
13 September, 2012
JELD-WEN raised £1,300 for a cancer charity at the company’s first employee football tournament held recently at Sheffield Football Club.

Glennons supplies timber for Italian exhibition
03 September, 2012
Glennon Brothers is the supplier of home grown timber for a unique Irish entry to the Venice Biennale 13th International Architecture exhibition.

Lumin plywood in warehouse roof application
31 August, 2012
Weyerhaeuser’s Lumin plywood has been installed as roof cladding at a new Milton Keynes warehouse.

JELD-WEN football helps cancer charity
10 August, 2012
JELD-WEN raised £1,300 for a cancer charity at the company’s first employee football tournament held recently at Sheffield Football Club.

Euro-wide FSC success
06 August, 2012
JELD-WEN has attained a multi-site Forest Stewardship Council certificate for all of its European operations.

Wood Germany attracts new member
19 July, 2012
Glulam bridge specialist Schaffitzel + Miebach-Fascination Brücken GmbH has joined international marketing platform Wood Germany.