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Promoting timber’s health and wellbeing benefits is the focus for Wood for Good’s next marketing summit.

SterlingOSB sales growth has led wood panel manufacturer, Norbord, to plough £35m into the second phase of development at its factory in Inverness, Scotland.

A new timber frame business has opened in Nantyglo, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales.

Kebony, a leader in the production of sustainable modified woods, has launched a competition with Brunel University London, which will give 140 students the opportunity to work with Kebony wood to create a design object.

The annual UK Softwood Conference will be supporting International Women’s Day this year and a record number of women have registered to attend the event. Organised by the Timber Trade Federation, it brings together hundreds of leading suppliers, importers and traders to present and discuss updates on the softwood market. This year, as part of the International Women’s Day celebrations, ...

A new publication focusing on collaboration in the design of innovative timber buildings is to be launched at Futurebuild. Pulling together the most successful partnerships in timber design ‘Timber Design Pioneers’ is published by TRADA (Timber Research and Development Association) and supported by the timber industry’s campaign, Wood for Good. “TRADA is honoured to collaborate with Wood for Good in ...

Six members of NYTimber’s management team have qualified as adult mental health first aiders.

The Scottish School of Forestry at Inverness College UHI has launched its first Modern Apprenticeship (MA) in Trees and Timber.

A new guide aimed at improving links between land managers and communities has been welcomed by Scottish Land & Estates. The community engagement protocol, the first of its kind to be published by the Scottish Land Commission, is intended to support greater collaboration and engagement between those who make decisions about land and those affected by them. The protocol summarises ...

Pasquill, one the UK’s largest manufacturers of roof trusses, celebrated the success of employees who have gone above and beyond operational excellence within the business, at its fourth annual awards ceremony.