Search Results: 'Wood for Good'

A pause for thought
21 December, 2015
As I write this comment at the start of December, Christmas is literally just around the corner.

Pallets and panels
25 November, 2015
It’s been a case of pallets and panels just recently, as several important annual events in these sectors take place in the UK and Ireland.

Timber industry on the acquisition trail
21 September, 2015
Some of the largest UK timber sector companies have been on the acquisition trail this last month.

More Trees, please
21 September, 2015
The UK has world-class operations in the forest products sector, but unless new commercial conifer crops are planted very urgently, the industry’s recent significant gains will be lost. That’s the stark warning from UK Forest Products Association Executive Director David Sulman for the governments of Scotland, England and Wales.

Seismic Shift
20 May, 2015
Well I said last month it was a dangerous game second guessing the voting intentions of the public. And so it turned out.

High ambitions
20 April, 2015
Engineered timber construction techniques are rewriting what was previously thought possible with wood building, says Peter Wilson, director of the Wood Studio research centre within Edinburgh Napier University’s Institute for Sustainable Construction

A new united force
20 April, 2015
I spent some of my Easter this year digging post holes in the garden for a new run of closeboard panel fencing. It's a difficult task at the best of times, made even harder by the need to dig through more than 1ft of concrete. The steady thunk of my 17lb digging bar hitting the concrete left me nursing copious blister wounds and must have been lovely for the neighbours. One neighbour took pity and gave me a glass of beer for my troubles.

Better together
20 April, 2015
Stuart Goodall, chief executive of Confor, argues that the broad church and clear messages behind the campaign for Scottish independence could provide a lesson for the timber sector

One Market, One Message
20 January, 2015
David Lennan, chief executive of the Timber Trade Federation, explains how a stronger, more unified timber industry voice will help the sector

A Question of tropical trust
20 January, 2015
Driving demand for sustainable tropical wood is doing the right thing for the forests, says Ralph Ridder, managing director of the Association Technique International des Bois Tropicaux (ATIBT).

The voice of the timber Industry
20 January, 2015