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Stay up to date with the latest wood futures features from the global timber industryLatest Wood Futures Update
Cloud forecast to grow Ten-25 Software predicts more and more merchants will migrate to cloud IT systems
Timber apps for smartphone era Smartphone apps represent a further area for the timber sector to channel its message. Stephen Powney reports on TRADA’s Wood Species Guide app
West African producers inject element of caution African producers have benefited from stable log prices and higher sawn lumber revenues but there is some uncertainty as the second quarter approaches, and the Eurozone’s unresolved economic problems are not helping
Asian producers look to add value The global downturn has come to the Asian timber sector later than other regions but now that it’s feeling the pinch it’s looking at pushing downstream production
Malaysian and Indonesian exports under pressure The Eurozone debt crisis is impacting on Asian timber producers
Building expertise Richard Harris, professor of timber engineering at the University of Bath, says industry should invest time and money in helping undergraduates gain specialist timber engineering skills
The appliance of science Professor Philip Turner sees a future in which British-grown timber is used for the manufacture of cross-laminated timber and where cellulose extracted from trees results in a product to rival Kevlar
Timber industry must work faster and smarter Timber has “fantastic potential”, but the industry must make it easier to specify and buy wood, writes BSW chairman and TTF president Martin Gale
Fighting for timber’s sustainability goals Green Party leader, former MEP and now MP for Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas talks about her efforts to tackle illegal logging and deforestation – and her hopes for a brighter future for the timber trade
Energy is the hot topic Peter Whitfield, UPM Tilhill’s timber operations director, believes the rapidly growing wood energy market will change the face of traditional forest products operations
