70 | From the Archive
PREVIOUSLY… IN TTJ 2004
Delving into the TTJ archive, we look back at some of the issues and news affecting the timber trade in previous decades
NAPIER TO DEVELOP BEAM USING SITKA SPRUCE Napier University has been given government money to bring a new type of engineered timber beam to market based on UK-grown Sitka spruce.
The University’s Centre for Timber Engineering has been awarded £200,000 to perfect its composite insulated beam (CIB), which a research team led by Dr Abdy Kermani and Professor Robin Mackenzie have been developing over the past 12 months. The CIB sandwiches Sitka spruce flanges and double webs with urethane or expanded polystyrene. The result, said Dr Kermani, is a product that can rival LVL and glulam in strength but is also very light and has “very good insulating properties”. “We see it being applied in general housing structural applications and for heavy-duty use such as lintels and edge beams,” he said. “It is also suitable for large span use. So far, we have got up to 4.8m but finger-jointing the beams together we believe we can go further than this.”
He added that the beams would provide another use for Sitka from forests in Scotland and the rest of the UK. “In its natural state, Sitka is generally in the C14/C16 range, so the CIB beam will open up whole new areas.”
MANAGING FARM WOODLANDS
1984
The Forestry Commission has launched a campaign to encourage new planting and improved management of farm woodlands.
In the judgement of the FC, many farms that include small areas of woodland could be managed more effectively to provide extra income for the farm business and make a greater contribution to the landscape and to wildlife conservation. To assist
farmers increase the profits that can be derived from these areas, the FC has
published a new advisory leaflet “Managing Farm Woodlands”.
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VANERN TO BENEFIT FROM MERGER
1994
The planned merger of two leading Swedish timber operations to form a new timber giant is expected to bring significantly more business to UK sales outlet Vanern Timber (UK) Ltd. Kjell Lundgren, chief executive of Fagerlid Industrier said that the merger of the Hova-based company with Opi, a major plywood manufacturer, should be finalised by August. The listing should raise at least £20m and take Fagerlid Industrier – as it will be known – into the major league of
Scandinavian timber
operations.
STEER CLEAR OF PARÁ, SAYS GREENPEACE
2014
Greenpeace has come close to urging importers in the UK and the rest of Europe not to buy timber from Brazil’s Amazonian state of Pará because of the high percentage harvested illegally. The NGO has not specifically urged a boycott, but says that its estimates that up to 80% of logging in the state is illegal make it a major challenge to buy timber in compliance with the EU Timber Regulation.
“Undertaking sufficient risk mitigation against that background is extremely difficult,” it said.
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