Search Results: 'International Timber'

Pasquill joins BMF
15 December, 2014
Pasquill is the latest timber industry company to join the Builders Merchants Federation.

PEFC endorses Indonesian forestry programme
11 December, 2014
PEFC’s endorsement of the Indonesian Forestry Certification Co-operation (IFCC) was marked at an event in Jakarta today.

International Timber joins BMF
08 December, 2014
International Timber is the latest timber company to join the Builders Merchants Federation.

Lifecycle Database EPD tools launch
08 October, 2014
Timber product companies will soon be able to use the Wood for Good Lifecycle Database to help create environmental performance declarations (EPDs) for use in marketing and specification data.

Industry urged to broadcast Wood for Good Build with Carbon videos
06 October, 2014
The Wood for Good marketing campaign is urging companies across the timber industry to embed its new videos, highlighting the carbon benefits of using and building with wood, into their own websites.

NZ log trade continues to rise
03 October, 2014
New Zealand’s shift toward log trade and away from softwood sawn timber has continued and even accelerated during some months this year.

FSC concedes rethink of compulsory online claims
19 September, 2014
Industry groups have welcomed a step back by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) from the introduction of a compulsory Online Claims Platform (OCP) to record every transaction of FSC-certified material worldwide.

Ekki bridge set for YouTube stardom
08 September, 2014
The high speed construction of an 80m bridge in African ekki/azobe hardwood in Belgium is destined to be the latest international timber promotional hit on YouTube.

Anger at pallet insect health claim
05 September, 2014
The pallets industry has dismissed demands by the GMB union, which represents employees at Amazon, to conduct an urgent risk assessment into insect infestation in packaging wood used to import products into its UK warehouses.

Central EUTR legalislation database in discussion
05 September, 2014
The prospect of a central database on supplier country legislation EU importers must comply with under the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) looks more likely following discussions between the European Timber Trade Federation (ETTF) and the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO).

European timber promotion targets MEPs
05 September, 2014
A group of leading European timber sector organisations is teaming up behind the Wood for Growth event in Brussels in September to lobby MEPs and highlight the potential contribution timber can make to sustainable construction and development.

Lead importers put ipe on hold
18 August, 2014
Following Greenpeace allegations about illegality in the timber industry in Pará, Brazil, Brooks Bros and James Latham plc have taken ipé off sale. Both have also put an FSC-only rule on all imports from Brazil.

Steer clear of Para, Greenpeace warns
14 July, 2014
Greenpeace has come close to urging importers in the UK and the rest of Europe not to buy timber from Brazil’s Amazonian state of Para due to the percentage harvested illegally.

Saint-Gobain pulls ipe and works with Greenpeace
14 July, 2014
Saint-Gobain Building Distribution (SGBD), parent of Jewson and International Timber, has taken ipe off sale at the companies after Greenpeace raised doubts about its legality documentation and highlighted that its suppliers had been previously fined for “forest crimes”.

Danzer highlights social value of certified tropical sector
12 July, 2014
Danzer UK managing director Ken Walsh focused on the social as well as the environmental value of certified tropical timber production in a presentation to the latest Illegal Logging Update (ILU) conference at Chatham House in London.

NEPCon welcomes Greenpeace probe
11 July, 2014
NEPCon, the international sustainability and auditing body, says it would welcome a Greenpeace review of its auditing procedures following a probe by the NGO into whether a cargo of hardwood from the Democratic Republic of Congo shipped to France was in breach of the EU Timber Regulation.

Tropical campaign battles shrinking EU sales
10 July, 2014
The Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) targeted the Carrefour International du Bois exhibition in Nantes for its first “Business Encounters” event.

Carrefour visitors up despite tough market
09 July, 2014
Against a background of continuing tough conditions in the French timber sector, the organisers of the Carrrefour du Bois (CIB) exhibition in Nantes in June greeted an upturn in visitor numbers as a major positive.

Kebony courts palace show
08 July, 2014
Kebony has been specified for a treehouse at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower show.

Dunster boosts garden buildings exports
02 July, 2014
Dunster House, a Bedford-based retail manufacturer of timber garden buildings, has opened a new export partnership in Sri Lanka, the 19th market to be created since breaking into international sales two years ago.