Search Results: 'Saint-Gobain'

International Timber joins BMF
08 December, 2014
International Timber is the latest timber company to join the Builders Merchants Federation.

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.

Steer clear of Para, Greenpeace warns
14 July, 2014
Greenpeace has come close to urging importers in the UK and the rest of Europe not to buy timber from Brazil’s Amazonian state of Para due to the percentage harvested illegally.

Saint-Gobain pulls ipe and works with Greenpeace
14 July, 2014
Saint-Gobain Building Distribution (SGBD), parent of Jewson and International Timber, has taken ipe off sale at the companies after Greenpeace raised doubts about its legality documentation and highlighted that its suppliers had been previously fined for “forest crimes”.

Refocused and reinvented
08 February, 2014
The Builders Merchants Federation has reinvented itself over the last 18 months and membership is growing as a result. Sally Spencer reports

Peter Hindle to chair the BMF
31 January, 2014
Peter Hindle MBE will be the next chairman of the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF), taking up the position on April 2.