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Forest sales set for record year
09 December, 2014
UPM Tilhill has predicted a record year for forest property trading next year after recording 2014 as the second busiest period since its Forest Market Reports began in 1998.

Kronospan opens new port service for buoyant OSB
19 November, 2014
Kronospan has begun importing OSB at Chatham, Kent, to meet the current strong demand and expected future growth of the product in the UK.

Timber firms recognised in forest impact report
17 November, 2014
Timber industry companies have scored well in CDP’s 2014 global forests report, which ranks businesses on their efforts to minimise deforestation.

EUTR aids responsible timber sourcing
13 October, 2014
The first analysis of purchases by Timber Trade Federation members since the EU Timber Regulation found a significant improvement in the reduction of risk associated with buying timber, according to the TTF annual report on responsible sourcing.

Machinery sales revive
06 October, 2014
The value of the European woodworking machinery and tool industry fell by 7.5% in 2013, however, latest figures from Italy show a strong revival in orders as the economy in Europe improves.

Ecobuild to host BIM training
18 September, 2014
The first live event to provide free information on Building Information Modelling (BIM), the government initiative for joined-up thinking on sustainable construction, is to be held as part of Ecobuild.

Indonesian exports benefit from EUTR
19 August, 2014
The EU Timber Regulation has helped to increase Indonesia’s forest products exports.

Italy predicts strong machinery sales recovery
09 August, 2014
The value of the Italian wood processing machinery and tool industry fell by 2.1% last year, but the sector remains confident of a strong recovery by the end of the year.

Lonza sales improve
25 July, 2014
Lonza’s wood protection sales increased in the first half of this year compared with the same period in 2013.

Stora Enso Q2 results at “high end of expectations”
25 July, 2014
Stora Enso’s sales fell in the second quarter but its Building and Living division, which includes timber, continued to “perform strongly”.

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.

Danzer highlights social value of certified tropical sector
12 July, 2014
Danzer UK managing director Ken Walsh focused on the social as well as the environmental value of certified tropical timber production in a presentation to the latest Illegal Logging Update (ILU) conference at Chatham House in London.

Tropical campaign battles shrinking EU sales
10 July, 2014
The Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) targeted the Carrefour International du Bois exhibition in Nantes for its first “Business Encounters” event.

Carrefour visitors up despite tough market
09 July, 2014
Against a background of continuing tough conditions in the French timber sector, the organisers of the Carrrefour du Bois (CIB) exhibition in Nantes in June greeted an upturn in visitor numbers as a major positive.

Brazil’s exports fall 9.2%
20 June, 2014
Brazilian tropical sawnwood export volumes from January to April were 9.2% lower than the same period last year.

Europe’s tropical timber imports fall slightly
17 June, 2014
The improving economic confidence in the EU is filtering only very slowly into the European tropical hardwood trade

UK sawmill production remains on growth track
16 June, 2014
UK sawmill production grew by 5% to 3.6 million m3 in 2013, according to new statistics from the Forestry Commission.

TTF member suspended for due diligence failure
21 April, 2014
A Timber Trade Federation (TTF) member has been suspended for failing to provide its due diligence annual submission as required by TTF membership.

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.

Construction outlook brightest since 2007
17 April, 2014
Construction firms have reported the brightest outlook for activity in the UK since January 2007, according to a new report on the building industry.