Search Results: 'TTF'

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

Hardwood calm amid brexit storm
17 December, 2018
Brexit may make the hardwood sector’s outlook unpredictable, but traders are “still hitting good numbers”. Mike Jeffree reports

Softwood Soothsaying
17 December, 2018
The annual International Softwood Conference (ISC) is always a great window on performance and prospects of the European softwood sector. This year’s event detailed both opportunities and risks facing markets

Nature’s way
17 December, 2018
TTJ’s Wood & Wellness Conference takes place in February and will examine the potential for wood in the health and wellbeing megatrend in the built environment. Stephen Powney reports

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

Fire protection now tops agenda
29 October, 2018
Following the Grenfell fire last year and the subsequent Hackitt Review, fire protection and the performance of materials in fire has come to the top of the agenda. Stephen Powney attended the Timber Trade Federation’s Fire Seminar in London during September

A cure for treatments?
25 October, 2018
The TTF’s Preservative Treatment Action Plan aims to raise levels of transparency and knowledge across the supply chain from producer to builder. TTJ investigates how TTF members, and their customers, are reacting to the Federation’s proposals

On tour with Glennon brothers
25 June, 2018
TTJ Career Development Award sponsor Glennon Brothers recently hosted a tour of Ireland’s forest products sector for the 2017 award finalists. Keren Fallwell reports

Plywood: Seeing Through
20 June, 2018
TTF managing director David Hopkins stresses the need for greater clarity in the Chinese plywood trade

Plywood sales below par
22 May, 2018
The UK plywood market may be quieter than usual but the Timber Trade Federation’s new requirement for third-party testing has been keeping traders busy. Keren Fallwell reports

Change, challenge and opportunity
25 April, 2018
Richard Ellithorne, membership services director of the Builders Merchants Federation, outlines the merchant’s perspective on the timber market

Raising the quality bar
25 April, 2018
Enhancing the reputation of timber and maximising its potential are key aims for the Wood Protection Association, reports its director, Steve Young

Timber car parks!
23 April, 2018
TRADA’s Urban Buzz competition resulted in some innovative designs for a multi-storey car park