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UPM receives conditional offer for French mill
UPM has received a conditional offer for its Aigrefeuille further processing mill in western France.
Nine merchants join the BMF
The Builders Merchants Federation All Industry Conference at the end of June has resulted in nine timber and builders merchants joining the organisation.
Firefighters save Wigan timber business
Firefighters managed to save the manufacturing side of a Wigan timber products business during a massive fire on Saturday.
Viance’s European business acquired by Rütgers
The European business of timber preservatives treatment manufacturer Viance has been acquired by Germany’s Rütgers Organics GmbH.
Medite Tricoya fibre plant targets 30,000-tonne capacity
The new licence agreement between Tricoya modified wood fibre maker Accsys Technologies and Irish panel maker Medite will see the latter produce an initial 30,000 tonnes of Tricoya a year, Accsys has confirmed.
Swedish mills signal market improvement
Nordic timber giants Södra and Moelven have reported optimistic signs in the softwood timber market in their latest financial results.
BBC Panorama timber programme to screen soon
The UK timber trade will find out within weeks whether its open doors policy to a BBC Panorama film crew has paid off when the programme’s special focus on illegal timber and the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) screens.
SR Timber tops off award success
More than a third of the winning sites in the NHBC Pride in the Job Quality Awards for the West region featured SR Timber’s Vacsol Premium Gold roofing battens.
EUTR hits tropical hardwood imports
The EUTR has been cited as a cause behind the fall in imports of tropical plywood and hardwoods into Europe since the new legislation came into force at the beginning of March.
OHRA raises the roof for DEG
German roofing product supplier DEG worked with OHRA on a racking solution for its new wood products warehouse.