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PREVIOUSLY… IN TTJ
Delving into the TTJ archive, we look back at some of the issues and news affecting the timber trade in previous decades
2011
JAPAN’S RECONSTRUCTION WILL SUCK IN SOFTWOOD
Larger shipments of softwood lumber from the Nordic countries, North America and Russia to meet an expected surge in demand from earthquake-hit Japan are “probable” later this year, according to forest industry consultant Wood Resources International (WRI).
WRI has also reported Japanese enquiries for glulam and other pre-cut wood products that can be used more quickly than commodity lumber and plywood in the initial rebuilding efforts. Japan was already the world’s largest plywood importer and the third largest lumber importer before the earthquake, which is estimated to have destroyed hundreds of thousands of timber frame homes. Imports this year could be the highest since 2008. WRI’s Hakan Ekstrom said short-term and long-term changes in Japan’s importation of forest products were still “uncertain”, but there was no doubt of the need for considerable volumes of construction material in the coming years. “It’s not likely that imports of lumber, plywood and sawlogs will increase much in the next few months before ports and access roads have been cleared and the power has been restored for at least the most basic needs,” he said.
PLYWOOD MAKERS BEWARE COMPETITION
1981
“The fact that plywood will exist in 10 years’ time is certain – but in what form?” This was the question posed by Barry Lewis of Schauman (UK) Ltd when he addressed the Saplings at their April 6 meeting on the subject. He said plywood was probably first made commercially about 100 years ago, at which time it faced no competition as it was the only board material of its type. Even as little as 15 years ago chipboard did not offer much of a
challenge but as it improved it started making inroads into the furniture market.
NORDIC COUNTRIES TOLD NOT TO FULLY- FINISH
1991
Nordic producers should approach the current ‘in’ topic of manufacturing fully- machined components with caution, according to David Haydock, managing director of Roger Haydock & Co Ltd. Speaking at the Swedish Finnish Timber Council’s ‘Nordic timber for joinery’ seminar, Mr Haydock warned Swedish and Finnish shippers against ignoring “the significant and developing markets for machining and semi-
manufacturing here in the UK: a point that may well be missed in the Nordic area”.
EUROPE AGREES ON WOOD-BASED PANELS STANDARD Wood-based panel manufacturers will be able to use a new CE mark from the middle of 2002, thanks to agreement on a new European standard.
2001
At an EPF meeting, 15 countries voted in favour and three against the adoption of a harmonised standard for wood products, EN 13986. The new standard forms part of the Construction Products Directive agreed in
December 1988 and designed to usher in a single market for construction products showing
compliance with regulations via compulsory CE marking.
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