16 | TTJ Awards 2025
TTJ AWARDS 2025 LAUNCH
The long-running TTJ Awards, which celebrates all that is good about the wood products sectors, has now launched the 2025 event. Stephen Powney reports
Twenty-nine years and counting. That is the history of the TTJ Awards – the UK & Ireland’s longest running and most established annual awards event in the timber industries.
Whether it is timber merchanting, importing or distribution, sawmilling or product manufacturing, structural timber systems fabrication or joinery production, the TTJ Awards recognises the breadth of the wood product industries, particularly in customer service, deliveries, product quality, value for money and product range. The intention is the same now as it was at the beginning in 1997 – to reward and recognise achievement and best business practice in the industry and provide a focal point to meet together. The TTJ Awards 2025 has kicked off with online voting already commencing in March and entries open to the Judged Categories.
Sponsors confirmed so far for this year include Epicor, which returns as a sponsor to the TTJ Awards, becoming Headline Sponsor. Epicor is a leading supplier of software systems for the distribution, manufacturing and building supply sectors, with a strong following among timber product companies. Timber Development UK, the country’s leading timber industry representative body, continues its long association with the TTJ Awards as the Gold Award sponsor. Other sponsors who have signed up include MDF mouldings manufacturer
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W Howard, sawmiller Glennon Brothers, timber preservative specialist Koppers, panel product manufacturer West Fraser, Italian wood machinery producer SCM UK, a trio of companies in the materials handling sector – Combilift, Bulmor Lancer and Hubtex, as well as industry organisations the Builders Merchant Federation and the Structural Timber Association.
There are still a couple of sponsorship opportunities available. “The TTJ Awards recognise the hard work and dedication that goes into keeping this whole sector moving,” said TDUK CEO David Hopkins.
“Sourcing key species and products, processing, merchanting and manufacturing are all essential aspects of the construction industry which are often overlooked. The TTJ Awards gives them the credit they deserve and TDUK is proud to be a long-term major sponsor.”
TTJ AWARDS VOTING At the core of the TTJ Awards are Voted Categories representing the whole of the timber industries:
• Panels Trader of the Year • Timber Merchant of the Year • Softwood Sawmiller of the Year • Softwood Importer of the Year • Hardwood Trader of the Year
• Joinery Product Supplier of the Year
• Small Timber Business of the Year • Timber Trader of the Year
The voting works by customers and end-users – basically buyers of timber products and systems – voting for suppliers who they feel give them great service, good products and value for money.
Typical voting customers are companies or individuals right down the supply chain from builders, specifiers, joinery firms, furniture producers, other wood product manufacturers, structural timber fabricators, merchants, DIY retailers and distributors.
They have the ability to vote for their best performing supplier on an easy to access and secure online voting survey platform, accessible via the TTJ Awards website -
https://awards-ttj.ttjonline.com. Voting will end on May 30.
The voting rules are as follows:
• Voters must supply a valid company name and professional email address
• Suppliers are not permitted to vote for themselves or related companies
• A maximum of three different personnel may cast votes at a voting company
• Where a voting company has more than one branch, this maximum three-personnel
• Structural Timber Systems Supplier of the Year - in association with the Structural Timber Association
voting rule is extendable to each branch
• Voters are eligible to vote for up to two companies per category.
• Timber Garden Products Supplier of the Year
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