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Asha
Limiting Exposure
Tightening EU formaldehyde regulations have seen coatings and adhesives companies such as AkzoNobel develop new compliant systems
Grabex invests in wood window future
A window manufacturer with a PVCu product background is investing in its timber windows business because of continued demand for natural products.
Floors system market expands
Increased levels of housebuilding has meant bigger volumes for engineered wood fl oor systems providers, reports Stephen Powney.
Bob’s your warm roof uncle
Housebuilders face poor thermal performance at the eaves detail of most trussed rafter roofs. But Pasquill design manager Tim Tasker says there’s a ready solution worth trying.
Byko-Lat invests in window factory
Byko-Lat is investing in its timber window and door factory in Valmiera, Latvia by doubling the manufacturing capacity in 2016.
PEFC chain circles the globe
The PEFC certification scheme is growing through combining a global and small scale local perspective, reports its UK executive director Alun Watkins.
New voices speak out on forestry, environment and FLEGT
A technically aware, environmentally committed new generation in supplier countries is increasingly shaping the development of the EU Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade Voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT VPA) initiative, and other forestry and timber sector legality and sustainability programmes worldwide. Mike Jeffree asked a range of them in VPA signatory countries worldwide about their views, outlook and aspirations. Here are the responses from Indonesia, Ghana and Honduras
Treet towers over the rest
Bergen dwellers like their buildings tall and in timber, judging by the rate the apartments sold in the city’s recently-completed, ground-breaking, record-holding Treet building. Mike Jeffree reports.
Society support
“Whatever Happened to the Institute of Wood Science?” asks Wood Technology Society chairman John Park.
Hardwood designs on construction
The hardwood trade should make more of the architectural and construction opportunities opening to it, argues architect and timber design consultant Peter Wilson.