Search Results: 'Malaysian Timber Council'

Plywood showcase held at Tilbury
17 April, 2024
Timber traders were invited to the Port of Tilbury last week for a Malaysian rubberwood plywood showcase held by Plaut International and its manufacturing supplier Hok Lai.

ATIBT ever more active at 70
10 June, 2022
The environmental, economic and social development of the tropical forest industry is more important than ever, says ATIBT. Mike Jeffree reports

Sheam Satkuru appointed ITTO executive director
06 January, 2022
ITTO’s governing body, the International Tropical Timber Council, has appointed Sheam Satkuru by consensus as ITTO’s new executive director at its 57th session, which was held virtually from November 29 to December 3 2021. She won the position from among nearly 50 applicants.

Malaysian Wood Expo planned for November
02 July, 2019
The Malaysian Timber Council (MTC) and Pablo Publishing Pte Ltd are staging a Malaysian Wood Expo (MWE) from November 19-21.

Science first
28 August, 2018
The Wood Technology Society held its first scientific conference in June. Sally Spencer reports on the first day

Supply and demand squeeze
22 May, 2018
The UK hardwood sector is caught between a more cautious market and global supply constraints. Mike Jeffree reports

Globalisation, branding and building the future
29 December, 2017
Hardwood trade representatives from across the globe converged on Venice for the International Hardwood Conference, reports Mike Jeffree

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.

Aesthetics and applications
22 December, 2014
In this year’s Wood Awards there was much to admire in the beauty and technical application of timber and equally satisfying were the judges’ observations that what was once considered innovative is now being used widely. Keren Fallwell reports.

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.

Malaysian trade mission boosts exports
12 December, 2014
A Malaysian Timber Council (MTC) marketing mission to Qatar, Oman and Kuwait has secured around RM6m worth of export orders.

Obituary – J Michael (Mike) Ginnings
03 September, 2014
Mike Ginnings, one of the great characters of the timber industry, died in August, in Windsor, near Sydney, Australia.

EUTR impacts demand
16 June, 2014
Sheam Satkuru-Granzella, director of the Malaysian Timber Council in London, raises concerns over the EUTR’s impact on demand for tropical timber

EUTR impacts demand
16 June, 2014
Sheam Satkuru-Granzella, director of the Malaysian Timber Council in London, raises concerns over the EUTR’s impact on demand for tropical timber

Wood Awards in major sponsorship boost
21 March, 2014
The Wood Awards have secured significant new backing, with Arnold Laver, the British Woodworking Federation, and a partnership between the Malaysian Timber Council and PEFC signing up as sponsors.

West African exports on cruise control
16 November, 2013
The market has barely changed course all year for African exporters and European customers

VPA vision for legality
07 September, 2013
Implementing EU FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreements is taking longer than hoped, but supplier countries signed up to the initiative have already made major progress on legality assurance. Mike Jeffree reports.

Malaysia makes its legality mark
24 August, 2013
Malaysia’s MYTLAS legality assurance system is bedding in well and helping challenge perceptions that tropical timber is inevitably high risk of illegality, says Malaysian Timber Council London director Sheam Satkuru- Granzella.

Making the sapele switch
24 August, 2013
Increasing demand and environmental pressures are combining to force the market to look to an ever wider range of tropical species. Mike Jeffree reports

Malaysian legality assurance system brochure out
30 May, 2013
A leaflet giving full information on the new Malaysian Timber Legality Assurance System (MYTLAS), launched in March to coincide with the introduction off the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR), is available now from the Malaysian Timber Council.