Press Releases
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Meet our Climate Conversations judges
With just over five weeks to go until our Conversations about Climate Change competition closes (24th August), we announce our exciting, expert judging panel carefully selected with the Building Centre. Conversations about Climate Change, a collaboration between the Timber Trade…
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Whatever the job, Norbord has a wood panel for it!
Norbord’s new fully interactive engineered wood panels product guide is proving to be an invaluable online resource for housebuilders, specifiers and architects. A simple click on the tabs at the side of the guide opens up the chosen product, application…
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Challenging Stereotypes
Encouraging support of the FLEGT Action Plan & their Climate Conversations Competition, the TTF are striving to challenge stereotypes about tropical timber. Timber is the world’s leading renewable, low-carbon construction material. The Timber Trade Federation and its members lead the…
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Norbord introduces a new housebuilders’ resource
Make sure you’ve ticked all the boxes with Norbord’s downloadable checklist As the UK’s biggest supplier of premium engineered wood panels to the UK construction and housebuilding market, Norbord has always been committed to supporting customers in a variety of ways. …
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Join the Climate Conversation
“The climate emergency remains one of the biggest threats we face”. Essential, sustainable change and mitigation requires a global conversations and effort. Today (1st July), marks the start of London Climate Action Week (LCAW), ‘harnessing the power of London for global…
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Modern flooring: less carpentry, more engineering
By David Connacher, Marketing Manager, Norbord Europe. Despite the continual development of new building materials and designs, the construction of suspended floors in the housing sector is still dominated by one material: wood. Admittedly, modern timber suspended floors are a…
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UK TTF gets creative in FLEGT communication
The UK Timber Trade Federation (TTF) has launched a competition for designers, architects and craftspeople to create furniture, sculptures, interior design and other functional products using exclusively tropical timber from FLEGT VPA partner countries. The design contest, being run in…
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CIFOR Report: FLEGT-VPA impacts for improved FLEGT communications
The VPA process has contributed to improvements and progress even without two of the countries having issued any FLEGT licenses to date. Established in 2003, the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan has been instrumental in curbing illegal…
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FLEGT: More than a trading license
FLEGT is more than a trading license. It reflects a country-wide process committed to sustainably managing forests and the timber they produce, closing the door on illegal logging and its devastating impacts. “FLEGT licence is much more than just a piece…
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Timber Trade Federation launches ‘Conversations About Climate Change’
The UK Timber Trade Federation announce the start of their ‘Conversations about Climate Change’ Design Competition, in collaboration with the Building Centre. Conversations about Climate Change is a specially commissioned design competition, exhibition, and events series providing a platform for urgent…
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