Search Results: 'UCM Timber'

Hull to retire
28 November, 2018
Gill & Robinson north-west sales manager, Richard Hull, is retiring at the end of 2018.

Agents never die
20 September, 2017
Wood Technology Society board member Andrew True examines the role of timber agents in the timber trade

UCM Timber Specialities Ltd closes
17 March, 2014
UCM Timber Specialities Ltd, the agency bought out of the administration of UCM Timber plc in 2012, has closed.

Churchill & Sim marks 200th anniversary
23 December, 2013
Softwood agent Churchill & Sim Ltd has marked its 200th anniversary with a City of London lunch, a stone’s throw from where the company was founded in Mincing Lane.

Steico to re-enter volume hardboard business
07 September, 2013
Steico UK is planning to re-enter the volume hardboard supply sector within the coming weeks.

Golden rule
13 July, 2013
Malcolm Cowley, Coillte Panel Products’ UK sales manager, is retiring next month after 50 years in the timber industry. He talks to Keren Fallwell about his career and his latest role as TTBS national president

Churchill & Sim set for growth
09 March, 2013
Softwood agent Churchill & Sim International Ltd has reported a successful first year’s trading, following the brand’s reemergence after the 2011 closure of the UCM Timber plc, and also announced that major development at its leading Siberian supplier could lead to more of its timber coming to the UK.

Nigel King retires
05 February, 2013
Nigel King, a director of from UCM Timber (Specialities) Ltd, has retired after 46 years in the timber industry, of which nearly 25 years were spent with the company.

UCM Timber (Specialities) appoints commercial manager
15 January, 2013
UCM Timber (Specialities) Ltd has appointed Andrew Thrale as commercial director.

Testing tropical times
12 November, 2012
According to one supplier, OK is good enough for business in a tropical timber sector facing continuing tough market conditions and major new anti-illegal logging legislation. Mike Jeffree reports

Management in buyout of UCM Timber (Specialties) Ltd
26 June, 2012
UCM Timber (Specialties) Ltd, the only surviving part of the UCM Timber plc business, has been bought out by management for an undisclosed sum.

Cosentino joins Tradelink
26 April, 2012

Still hooked
17 March, 2012
From trainee to manager, LDT’s Vicki Link has never lost her enthusiasm for the hardwood trade

Administrators wind down UCM Timber plc
18 February, 2012

UCM Timber plc in administration
02 February, 2012

Environmental issues
11 June, 2011
Will environmental issues be a burden or a benefit for the industry in the next five years?

Timber's market potential
11 June, 2011
Is the industry doing enough to ensure it realises its potential and increases its share of its core markets? If not what else should it be doing?

Supply issues
11 June, 2011
We have a whole new woodfuel sector competing for fibre. Where is it all going to come from and what impact will this demand have on supply and prices?

Meeting of minds
11 June, 2011
Industry representatives at the Medite 2016 Forum and TTJ round table debated timber's future

Timber markets
11 June, 2011
Will 2016 be better or worse for the timber industry and its markets than 2011? And what are the key factors that will shape it over the next five years?