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Stora Enso reports continuing challenges for wood product division
Stora Enso says its wood products division continues to face challenges due to low demand, prices, volumes, and high wood costs.
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Plywood showcase held at Tilbury
Timber traders were invited to the Port of Tilbury last week for a Malaysian rubberwood plywood showcase held by Plaut International and its manufacturing supplier Hok Lai.
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Homag and Luli Wood strike strategic agreement
Chinese panel product giant Luli Wood Industry has a new strategic partnership agreement with German woodworking manufacturer Homag Group.
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M&M Timber has further strengthened its team following the appointment of three key roles at the production site in Worcestershire.
- Swedish Wood launches four-volume Glulam Handbook
Glulam’s increasing popularity as an architecturally expressive, lightweight, low carbon structural solution has shown the need for more definitive information about its use.
- Zest brand to star at garden shows this summer
Products from garden furniture, grow your own and decorative garden structure specialist, Zest will be featuring at gardening shows across the UK this season. Collaborating with leading home and gardening influencers, the brand is featuring at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Gardeners World Live, and RHS Malvern.
- NTS adds metal web joists to EWP range
National Timber Systems (NTS), part of National Timber Group, has added metal web joists to its range of engineered wood products.
- TTBS National Golf Day
The TTBS annual National Golf Day will be held on Thursday July 11, 2024 at Breadsall Priory Golf Club, Derby.
LATEST FEATURES
Parvez Alam explores the growth in metamaterials research in recent years
- Essential evidence
The BWF continues its call for third-party accreditation of fire doors
- Developing careers
Glennon Brothers hosted a tour of the Irish forestry and timber industries for finalists of the TTJ Awards’ Career Development Award. Stephen Powney joined the trip
- Slow but still sure
The UK Forest Market Report 2023 reveals a sector that’s slowed over the last year but that remains an attractive investment opportunity. Sally Spencer reports
- Timber on top form
The Wood Awards celebrate the use of timber in standout architecture and product design – and 2023 provided a bumper crop
BLOGS
An inspirational Wood Awards showcased even greater daring and diversity in wood building and product design, writes Timber Development UK sustainability and project manager Lucy Bedry
- Super-charged carbon guzzlers
Genetically modified trees could be a global warming game changer, writes Mike Jeffree
- Global forests need global governance and market recognition
The new Broader Market Recognition Coalition is a key practical development to incentivise and deliver strong tropical forest governance, writes David Hopkins, Timber Development UK chief executive
- Softwood sector seeks glimmers of light
The International Softwood Conference convened in challenging times for the industry looking for prospects of market improvement. Keith Fryer of Fort Builders Merchants, who moderated the event, reports
- Women in timber engineering an award winning strategy
Nick Boulton, chief executive of the Trussed Rafter Association, shares his views on how diversity in the workforce is changing for the better
