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PREVIOUSLY… IN TTJ 2013
Delving into the TTJ archive, we look back at some of the issues and news affecting the timber trade in previous decades
INDUSTRY GETS BEHIND GROWN IN BRITAIN CAMPAIGN
Sawmillers, wood product manufacturers and customers met in London last week to get behind the new Grown in Britain (GiB) timber industry action plan. Confor chief executive Stuart Goodall said the meeting at Defra involved about 50 companies, including BSW, Norbord, Inwood Developments, B&Q, the British Woodworking Federation, Willmott Dixon and Arnold Laver. They were told of ministers’ support for the campaign and
speakers from major timber buyers Willmott Dixon, B&Q and Arnold Laver set out their commitment to buying British wood products. “We wanted to get these industry customers to express their commitment to Grown in Britain and buying British wood products, so the businesses in the supply chain can take that on board and start to consider what they can do to bring more products to the market,” said Mr Goodall.
He said a relatively small increase in consumption of UK wood products would make a significant difference to the profitability of companies and channel additional funding up through the supply chain to the woodland owners.
Mr Goodall said GiB could provide means for customers and suppliers to meet, creating opportunities for potential business.
BRITISH TIMBER MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR
1983
The British home-grown timber industry is becoming a major contributor to the UK economy. This was claimed by Roger Worgan, the newly-elected president of the British Timber Merchants’ Association (England and Wales) at the association’s annual luncheon at the House of Commons recently. As against the decline in the UK pulp and paper sectors, he said, sawn softwood production arising from Britain’s forests had doubled in the last 15 years and the industry now supplied 18% of the home market.
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SUMMER OF SHORTAGES LOOMS
1993
The UK will face major panel products shortages this summer, according to Brian Lewis, chairman of the TTF’s International Division.
Speaking at the division’s 15th annual
luncheon last week, Mr Lewis, managing director at Norbord Industries (UK), said he also expects lumber prices to remain at their current high in the US for several years – if the North American economy continues to recover.
Mr Lewis said that US demand is now outstripping supply to such a degree that prices are at levels not seen since 1972.
INTEREST SHOWN IN TEE-U-TEC
2003
The Amphion Consortium, a leading exponent of innovative off-site construction, is hoping to sign up several timber frame manufacturers to replace the now closed Torwood II factory at Ipswich. Torwood II had supplied the consortium’s developments with the Tee- u-Tec timber construction system until it went into receivership on April 7 after experiencing “difficult trading conditions”. Amphion,
which specialises in social
housing, has secured the intellectual property rights of Tee-u-Tec and is speaking to several potential new suppliers.
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