Search Results: 'National Panel Products Division'

Ireland bound
19 December, 2023
Geoff Rhodes, independent consultant and former long-serving marketing and sales director at MEDITE looks back 40 years to Medford Corporation’s multi-million dollar investment in the Clonmel factory

Building on success
24 August, 2022
Donaldson Group made the headlines last December when it announced it had acquired the UK’s largest timber frame manufacturer, Stewart Milne Timber Systems. Sally Spencer reports

Bumper crop for garden products
30 April, 2021
The garden products sector has had an outstanding year as lockdowns and furloughs forced consumers to stay at home. Sally Spencer reports

IDS announce the passing of Dave Stubbs
28 April, 2020
Highly experienced UK wood-based panels industry executive Dave Stubbs has died aged 71, his former employer IDS has announced.

Forty years of contentment
29 July, 2019
Chris Sutton leaves James Latham with ambitions fulfilled and no regrets. Mike Jeffree spoke to him on his retirement

TTF AGM takes to the Thames
27 June, 2019
The Timber Trade Federation (TTF) rang the changes with this year’s annual general meeting by holding it on the Tattershall Castle pub ship on the Thames in London. The AGM, on June 26, was followed by a summer drinks reception.

WPIF overhauls floating floor guidance
05 February, 2019
The UK’s Wood Panel Industries Federation (WPIF) has revised its guidance on the use of wood-based panels in floating floors – guidance it has provided for 20 years.

TTF adapts structure to focus on market-facing activities
28 January, 2019
The Timber Trade Federation (TTF) has reported new members joining and an alteration of structure to focus on increased market-facing activities.

Panel discussions
17 December, 2018
Sally Spencer reports from the TTF’s first UK Wood Panels Conference, which took place in London last month

Selling up, not down
22 November, 2018
The TTF’s first conference for the UK panels sector will focus on adding value and innovation. Sally Spencer spoke to Dave Hopkins

TTF stages its first panels conference
08 November, 2018
The Timber Trade Federation’s inaugural UK Wood Panels Conference took place at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London on November 7.

TTF activities highlighted at AGM
18 June, 2018
The Timber Trade Federation will continue to drive and grow a profitable industry and to promote its members as suppliers of “timber you can trust”, delegates at the organisation’s June 14 annual general meeting were told.

Desperately seeking softwood
25 April, 2018
The TTF’s Softwood Conference came at a key time for the European softwood sector, with delegates keen to hear about latest market developments and forecasts for 2018 and beyond. Stephen Powney reports.

TTF issues Panels Review update
06 April, 2018
Following a meeting by the Timber Trade Federation’s National Panel Products Division, the TTF has issued an update on its Panels Review and standards of plywood entering the market.

Price over patriotism
20 September, 2017
Processors of British-grown timber are keen to take advantage of currency exchange rates and to invest in capacity and value adding. Sally Spencer reports

Plywood issue tackled head on
20 March, 2017
There have been grumblings in the UK timber trade for many years about the quality of some of the hardwood plywood imported.

Plywood issue tackled head on
20 March, 2017
There have been grumblings in the UK timber trade for many years about the quality of some of the hardwood plywood imported.

TTF agrees third party testing for non-EU hardwood ply
13 March, 2017
The Timber Trade Federation’s (TTF) National Panel Products Division has unanimously agreed mandatory third party species testing and third party product performance testing for all panels placed on the market from outside the EU.

A life’s work
28 December, 2016
David Francis’s strong sense of duty was recognised this year with a TTJ Lifetime Achievement Award. He talks to Keren Fallwell

Quality Control
21 November, 2016
Issues around marine plywood quality have existed for a long time but the Timber Trade Federation has now said enough is enough. Keren Fallwell reports