CE marking

Flame-retardant treated wood: Are you meeting your legal responsibilities?
by Jennie Ward|24 October 25|Design, Supply
The Wood Protection Association offers advice on how to ensure compliance with flame-retardant treated wood products. As part of its role as the UK Construction Products Regulator, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) is now actively reviewing how flame retardant (FR) treated wood products – including timber cladding...
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Flame-retardant treated wood : Are you meeting your legal responsibilities?
by Jennie Ward|11 July 25|Build, Supply
As part of its role as the UK Construction Products Regulator, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) is now actively reviewing how flame-retardant (FR) treated wood products – including timber cladding – are placed on the market. Several timber businesses have already been contacted to verify compliance. These...
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TDUK Trade Note: CE Marking and Declaration Responsibilities for Fire-Retardant Treated Wood Products
by Jennie Ward|21 May 25|Build, Supply
As part of its new remit as the Construction Products Regulator, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has been contacting companies across the timber supply chain – including some Timber Development UK (TDUK) members – to check compliance around fire retardant (FR) treated wood-based products.
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CE marking to UKCA
Reminder: CE Marking and Declaration Responsibilities for Fire Retardant Treated Wood Products
by Jennie Ward|21 May 25|Build, Supply
As part of its new remit as the Construction Products Regulator, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has been contacting companies across the timber supply chain – including some Timber Development UK (TDUK) members – to check compliance around fire retardant (FR) treated wood-based products. These products are...
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CE marking to UKCA
CE marking recognition extends into 2025
by Jennie Ward|15 September 24|Build, Supply
The UK’s recognition of CE marking on construction products was due to end across Great Britain on 30 June, 2025. However, the UK government has now announced an extension to the scheme beyond this date, ending years of uncertainty for the construction industry. Back in January 2020, when the UK...
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CE Marking
Government announces extension to recognition of CE Marking
by Liam Macandrew|02 September 24|Design
The Government has announced that CE Marking will continue to be accepted beyond 30 June 2025 in Great Britain. Rushanara Ali, MP for Bethnal Green and Stepney, and Parliamentary Under Secretary for Building Safety and Homelessness, announced the extension in a statement on building safety in Parliament today (2 September...
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TDUK Trade Note: HMRC timber import statistics and Coniferous Plywood data – Update
by Jennie Ward|31 July 24|Build, Supply
Timber Development UK uses the latest timber import data, published by HM Revenue & Customs, to collate and release monthly updates on timber imports to the UK. This is a follow up to the trade note issued on 8 May 2024 which highlighted a significant problem with customs declarations being...
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Supplying Timber | Issue 06
by Jennie Ward|30 July 24|Build, Supply
Welcome to the fifth issue of Supplying Timber, a magazine from Timber Development UK (TDUK) dedicated to the timber merchants, suppliers, manufacturers and tradespeople who are interested in working with timber.
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CE, UKCA, and UKNI Marking
CE, UKCA, and UK(NI) Marking
by Edinburgh Napier University|10 June 24|Design
At present, the methods for obtaining CE, UKCA, and UK(NI) marks are the same. The holder of one mark can currently obtain the other mark in a relatively simple process by engaging the services of an additional notified body holding the necessary registration.
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CE Marking
TDUK Trade Note calls for clarity on UKCA/CE marking
by Jennie Ward|07 June 24|Build, Supply
Timber Development UK (TDUK) is calling for the next government to remove the continuing uncertainty around CE marking and the UKCA mark on construction products. At the point that the UK exited the EU back in January 2020, the UK government was very firmly of the intent that recognition of...
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