Search Results: 'PEFC UK'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ecobuild: KLH looks to grow and widen UK CLT prospects
22 March, 2014
The UK may have been through five years of construction downturn, but KLH UK has completed 120 cross-laminated timber (CLT) building projects here in that time.

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.

Half century of forestry recognised
13 March, 2014
Len Yull, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters, former chairman and national secretary of PEFC UK, and former chair of the Forestry & Timber Association, has received Confor’s award for distinguished service to forestry.

Certification can do better
08 March, 2014
We've had the range of timber eco certification stories recently. The mixed, the good and the not so sure. Initially the first of these had looked like unmitigated bad news for the industry; IKEA's forestry arm, Swedwood, losing its FSC certificate in Karelia, prompting the screaming Sunday Times headline: "IKEA cut down to size as 600-year-old trees used for flatpack" .

Abandoning certification a “retrograde” step, says FSC UK
08 March, 2014
Only one of the three options in Confor’s report on forest management certification would be workable from its perspective, says FSC UK executive director Charles Thwaites.

New system mooted to replace UK forest certification
26 February, 2014
Abandoning UK forest certification in favour of a new system that could deliver legal and sustainable forest management requirements at a cheaper cost is being mooted in a new report commissioned for Confor.

Backing the crack down
08 February, 2014
The TTF will support EUTR prosecutions to defend the UK trade’s global reputation on legality, says chief executive John White.

Backing the crack down
08 February, 2014
The TTF will support EUTR prosecutions to defend the UK trade’s global reputation on legality, says chief executive John White.

Right project at the right time
27 January, 2014
Project certification can contribute to timber’s market momentum, says TTJ editor Mike Jeffree

Right project at the right time
25 January, 2014
Project certification can contribute to timber’s market momentum, says TTJ editor Mike Jeffree