Forestry & British Timber articles from March 2007

Forestry & British Timber archives from March 2007

LOGBOOK: Certified imports high - demand low.
March 19, 2007... While 56% of wood and wood products imported into the UK in 2005 were certified, demand for certified timber was only 10%, according to a study* published by the Timber Trade Federation (TTF). TTF chief executive, John White, commented: 'It...

LOGBOOK: BLSA welcome Makita sponsorship.
March 19, 2007... Makita is backing the British Lumberjack Sports Association (BLSA), the UK's leading timber-sports competitors, who will attend an expanded calendar of forestry, agricultural and county shows across the UK this year. The BLSA will now only...

LOGBOOK: Green light switched on in Inverness.
March 19, 2007... `A showcase of... home grown timber from sustainable sources' is how Forestry Commissioner Calum MacDonald described FC Scotland's handsome new Inverness forest district (IFD) home when he opened it earlier this year. One of the UK's largest...

LOGBOOK: New for newsprint.
March 19, 2007... An innovative paper un-loading system for its two-tonne, triple-width newsprint reels used by publisher News International (NI) has been launched by UPM, one of the world's leading forest products groups. It was developed by UPM's logistics...

LOGBOOK: Pellets a feasible rural business.
March 19, 2007... Forestry Commission Scotland, as the Scottish lead partner in the North Sea Bio Energy project, has demonstrated for the first time, that pellet manufacture is technically feasible for a small rural business. Two demonstration plants have...

LOGBOOK: New chairman at Lathams'.
March 19, 2007... Peter Latham has succeeded Roger Latham as chairman of James Latham plc. Roger retired in December after 44 years of service with the company and was chairman for five years. Peter joined Lathams' in 1969 as a tally clerk at the original...

LOGBOOK: Measuring up to quality.
March 19, 2007... `This system is really a refinement of the "red" and "green" log system in current use, so that we'll be able to make much more refined assessments of timber quality and therefore be able to direct logs much more accurately to the most...

LOGBOOK: `Showpiece for Welsh timber'.
March 19, 2007... `BSW's Newbridge mill is fast becoming a showpiece for the development of the Welsh timber industry', said its manager Dave Burd during a recent visit to the operation by Peter Ainsworth MP, Conservative shadow secretary of state for...

LOGBOOK: Skills milestone for trees and timber.
March 19, 2007... Following 18 months' liaison with `thousands of employers' in England, the Environmental and Land-based Sector Skills Agreement (SSA) was launched at the Atrium in London earlier this year. It was brokered by the event's host Lantra, the...

LOGBOOK: Grey squirrels and bird decline.
March 19, 2007... New concerns about the possibility of grey squirrels affecting woodland bird populations, has resulted in The Barnaby Trust and The European Squirrel Initiative (ESI) funding a substantial new grey squirrel study, which is to be carried out by...

LOGBOOK: New timber frame head.
March 19, 2007... Stewart Dalgarno, who is managing director of Stewart Milne Timber Systems for England and Wales, has been appointed as the new chairman of the UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA). He has been with the Stewart Milne Group for 23 years,...

EXLENT CURE FOR SPLITTING HEADACHES.
March 19, 2007... When Jas P Wilson* decided to host an open day to demonstrate their range of Posch firewood machines in the south what better location to choose as a venue than Upper Atcombe Farm, the Gloucestershire base of EXL Contracting. Running a log...

20 years' good service.
March 19, 2007... A 5ft rotary scrub cutter has just completed 20 years' uninterrupted use on a Lincolnshire estate, where it was key to controlling undergrowth in 127 hectares of woodland and game bird cover. Irnham Estate, near Grantham, covers 920ha....