Search Results: 'National Panel Products Division'

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.

Pallets and panels
25 November, 2015
It’s been a case of pallets and panels just recently, as several important annual events in these sectors take place in the UK and Ireland.

A new united force
20 April, 2015
I spent some of my Easter this year digging post holes in the garden for a new run of closeboard panel fencing. It's a difficult task at the best of times, made even harder by the need to dig through more than 1ft of concrete. The steady thunk of my 17lb digging bar hitting the concrete left me nursing copious blister wounds and must have been lovely for the neighbours. One neighbour took pity and gave me a glass of beer for my troubles.

Education is vital
22 February, 2014
Wood education should be an industry norm, says Andrew True, chairman of the Wood Technology Society

Positive talk turns to action
14 December, 2013
Economic upturns start with a feeling. It's a slow and initially barely discernible mood swing, but gradually you start to notice that not every business discussion is a gloom contest, as it seems to have been through the slump, where everyone tries to outdo each other with tales of corporate woe.

Give us credit
21 November, 2008
Increasing curbs on credit insurance are making business even more difficult than it was already and there's a growing feeling in the trade that something needs to be done about it, writes Mike Jeffree