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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.

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.

Snows Timber celebrates 10 years of certification
05 December, 2014
Snows Timber is marking 10 years of dual FSC and PEFC chain of custody certification by presenting a Scots pine sapling to its top 100 customers.

PEFC Italy gets tough on crime
09 October, 2014
PEFC Italy has joined three other organisations to launch a project aimed at preventing criminal organisations infiltrating the EU market.

Clear view imperatives
26 September, 2014
Dave Hopkins, executive director of Wood for Good, says transparency within supply chains is essential if consumers are to have faith that products are ethically sourced.

Stora Enso CLT school opens
11 September, 2014
A new specialist school for 150 2 to 19-year-olds with profound and multiple learning difficulties has been completed using PEFC-certified Austrian spruce and pine cross-laminated timber (CLT) sourced and manufactured by Stora Enso Building and Living.

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.

Diversified, branded, headed for the UK
18 August, 2014
French softwood is a relatively unknown quantity in the UK, but one of its biggest producers aims to change that. Mike Jeffree reports.

Plywood giant reincarnated in veneer
18 August, 2014
An Italian veneer company has set up on the site of the former Plysorol plant

Market transformation required
18 August, 2014
Iris Tzur, communications manager of the newly-formed Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition reports on the roots and aims of the initiative

Norbord Europe extends its certification
22 July, 2014
Norbord Europe has improved its green credentials by extending the PEFC chain of custody certification to UK sites as well as applying for group FSC certification.

Poland seeks PEFC re-endorsement
21 July, 2014
The Polish Forest Certification Scheme is the latest system to seek PEFC re-endorsement for the first time.

Research required
16 June, 2014
There are plenty of opportunities for UK timber but progress could be stymied by a lack of research. Keren Fallwell reports.

Scouting for opportunity
16 June, 2014
Camilla Hair of Snows Timber looks back at a decade of changing emphasis in compliance and at what the future holds.

Brazil laundering illegal timber, says Greenpeace
16 May, 2014
Greenpeace is urging Jewson to stop selling ipe decking after revealing what it says is “widespread illegal logging” in Brazil.

Powering forward
05 May, 2014
Love the idea or hate it, burning wood for energy generation looks to be here to stay. Drax is often cited as the timber sector’s potential nemesis so Sally Spencer asked its external communications manager Matt Willey for the power generator’s side of the story.

Danzer UK welcomes FSC reassociation roadmap
21 April, 2014
Ken Walsh, managing director of Danzer UK, described proposals for a ‘roadmap’ for the reassociation of the international Danzer Group into the Forest Stewardship Council as a “positive and encouraging” step.