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25TH ANNIVERSARY TTJ AWARDS
This year’s TTJ Awards will be the 25th anniversary of the long-running event, writes Stephen Powney
Above (from left to right): Nick Howarth with two of Howarth Timber Group’s 2020 TTJ Awards trophies Falcon Panel Products’ – Aaron Vaughan, Natasha Madden and Tom Burrett
Dale Joinery – Sarah Brown, internal sales manager, with national sales manager Matt Chambers The English Woodlands Timber team with the Small Timber Business of the Year trophy Glennons Brothers workers at Fermoy celebrate their 2020 Softwood Trader award
It’s springtime and the TTJ Awards is gearing up to launch its 2021 event – which will be the 25th anniversary of the popular industry celebration. Every year the Awards celebrates achievements in the timber trade across different trading categories and is a large and popular gathering point for the timber products supply chain. To prepare for the autumn event against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are launching an industry survey (see separate link) to gauge people’s readiness to return to physical events and help us plan accordingly to create a successful 2021 TTJ Awards. “In 2020 the TTJ Awards went virtual for the first time in its history,” said TTJ editor Stephen Powney.
“It was a different experience necessitated by the pandemic restrictions, but proved a valuable industry gathering point for the UK timber trade.
“Now as we start preparations for this year’s event, we would like to know whether
industry representatives are planning to return to physical events in the autumn and if so at what scale.
“I would urge as many people as possible to engage with this survey so we can tailor the 2021 TTJ Awards to meet industry expectations.”
September 17 has been pencilled in for this year’s event. Options being considered include a full-scale physical event, a smaller hybrid event with live streaming online or a virtual awards. The Virtual Awards in 2020 was attended by 200 people, and featured a Covid-19 industry response film, the American Hardwood Export Council’s (AHEC) Connected project, fund-raising for the Timber Trades’ Benevolent Society and a special focus on industry campaign Wood CO2
ts less.
Trophies were recently united with their winners and our thanks go to machinery supplier SCM Group UK, which made the trophies, and AHEC which supplied the US maple and cherry.
Howarth Timber Group won the coveted
www.ttjonline.com | March/April 2021 | TTJ FURTHER INFORMATION TTJ Awards 2021 attendance survey
https://surveys.ns-mediagroup.com/s3/ Events-Research?Source=TTJAwards
Timber Trader of the Year trophy and Neil Donaldson was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The online voting process will get under way in April (links will be published on a new TTJ Awards website and in TTJ e-newsletters).
Nearly 1,000 votes were registered in the online voting process in 2020 from a wide range of timber trade customers, including merchants, joinery manufacturers, structural timber systems suppliers, architects, building contractors, garden product producers and furniture makers. We are also restarting judged categories after postponing these during 2020. ■
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