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BSW Timber Solutions announces Bruce McKay as managing director
Bruce McKay has been appointed as managing director of BSW Timber Solutions Ltd, formerly SCA Wood UK, following five years as supply chain and procurement director.
Having spent 25 years in the timber industry, Mr McKay has senior level experience working across a variety of functions – including procurement, supply chain, sales and commercial. “Having worked at SCA for nearly five years, I’m thrilled to be a part of the exciting new future with our newly named business, BSW Timber Solutions,” said Mr McKay.
“With the acquisition we have already set our strategy to align with BSW, aiming to deliver innovative and proactive solutions right across our business,” he added.
Top: Bruce McKay, managing director Above: Lynsey Pace, HR director
BSW Timber Solutions Ltd is one the largest processors and distributors of
Martin Batts retires from Balcas Above: Martin Batts
Martin Batts, timber sales director of Balcas Timber Ltd, is retiring at the end of May. Mr Batts entered the timber industry via the management training programme with the timber importer Southern- Evans Ltd. He has spent 45 years within the industry in various sales and senior business positions. During his career, he spent periods of employment at Snows Timber Glastonbury, Crown Timber, K&B Forest Products, Montague L Meyer and Finnforest (now Metsä Wood).
In the late 1990s as part of the newly assembled team at Finnforest (formerly
Hunter Timber & Plywood), Mr Batts assisted in rebuilding the business into what became a major manufacturer and distributor of wood-based products supplying the DIY, merchant and industrial sectors within Great Britain. During this time he successfully account managed the Wickes timber and sheet material business and achieved both category and overall supplier of the year. He then went on to establish the Finnlife range of garden products within Argos and Homebase before returning to merchant sales. In 2006 Mr Batts joined the sawmilling and energy group Balcas Ltd. Having undertaken a number of key sales roles within Balcas, in 2016 he was promoted to timber sales director. During the past five years with the support of his sales team and business colleagues he has refocused the trading activities of Balcas Timber within its three trading regions of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and guided the business back into sustained growth and profit. In retiring, he would like to thank colleagues, friends and business contacts for their valued support, advice and good humour.
□ Nigel Buckley-Ryan, Södra Wood Ltd’s sales director, has been appointed as the new Western Timber Trade Association chairperson.
timber products in the UK, with annual sales in excess of £145m. The business operates from its headquarters and distribution centre in Stoke-on-Trent, and has further processing and distribution capability at its three other sites in Melton, Welshpool and Cumbernauld.
In addition to Mr McKay’s appointment, Lynsey Pace has been promoted from HR manager to HR director and joins Alan Mills, finance director for the BSW Timber Solutions division, Mike Lomas, BSW group operations director, and Mike Faulkner, BSW group sales director, as the newly formed board of directors. “I’m excited for the future of BSW Timber Solutions” said Tony Hackney, CEO of BSW. “It’s been fantastic to internally promote both Bruce and Lynsey. We have ambitious plans for the business that will add value to our established products and widen the range of products we offer.”
NMITE appoints CATT founding director
The New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) has announced that Professor Robert Hairstans has joined as founding director of its Centre for Advanced Timber Technology (CATT). His role will be to lead the development and delivery of the CATT, to help establish it as the leading national location in timber education and to work with the broader NMITE academic team to create a sustainable educational portfolio. Prof Hairstans joins on a two-year secondment from Edinburgh Napier University (ENU), where he is head of the Centre for Offsite Construction and Innovative Structures (COCIS) within the University’s Institute for Sustainable Construction.
Professor Hairstans’ specialist expertise is in the fields of timber engineering and technology with a focus on adding value to the timber supply chain with an emphasis on engineered timber products and offsite (modular) construction.
The appointment has the additional benefit of bringing together two organisations who, having seen the potential of a future partnership, have now signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
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