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Tropical campaign battles shrinking EU sales
The Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) targeted the Carrefour International du Bois exhibition in Nantes for its first “Business Encounters” event.
Snows Timber joins BMF
Snows Timber Ltd has become the lastest supplier member of the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF).
Norbord secures OSB plant initial consent
Norbord has been given planning consent for preparatory work for the proposed expansion of its Inverness OSB plant, and its planning application for the full development of the facility is under consideration.
BSW schools gardening science
BSW Timber has donated planter boxes to primary schools in areas surrounding its seven UK sites.
Carrefour visitors up despite tough market
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.
MiTek perfect fit as TTJ Engineered Timber Award sponsor
One of the world’s leading structural timber engineering design software solutions and steel connector specialists, MiTek Industries Ltd, has become the new sponsor of the TTJ Achievement in Engineered Timber Award.
EPS invests in technology and trainees
Following major investment in relocation of its Scottish site earlier this year, sawblade manufacturing and sharpening specialist EPS has invested £100,000 in new machinery at its Wiveliscombe, Somerset base.
EC demands EUTR enforcement
EC environment director-general Karl Falkenberg has threatened action against EU countries that are not being stringent enough in their EU Timber Regulation enforcement.
Södra signals terminal opening
Södra is set to open a new rail terminal capable of handling around 300,000m3 of timber a year.
BeA stages World Cup charity donation
As football fans are gripped by World Cup fever, BeA has shown its support for a football-focused charity closer to home.