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New carbon values published for Kerto LVL
by Jennie Ward|19 May 26|Supply, Sustainability
Metsä Wood has updated and improved Kerto LVL’s Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), giving it one of the lowest carbon footprints among LVL producers. The new EPD, published on Environdec, provides up to date and reliable data to support customers in their climate impact calculations, environmental certifications, and sustainable design decisions....
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TDUK and One Click LCA bring industry together to explore embodied carbon challenges
by Jennie Ward|05 April 26|Build, Supply
Timber Development UK (TDUK), in partnership with One Click LCA, brought together leading voices from across the built environment for a roundtable debate focused on embodied carbon in timber construction and the growing importance of having robust environmental data when designing and building new projects. Held on Thursday 19 March...
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2026 Embodied Carbon Data shows lower impact for UK sourced timber
by TDUK|06 March 26|Supply, Sustainability
Timber Development UK (TDUK) has published the 2026 Embodied Carbon data for Timber Products. This provides the average carbon data for the 11 major timber product categories. A fully updated version of the 2025 information, the data allows designers to weigh up the carbon impacts of their material choices. The...
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Embodied Carbon Data for Timber Products
by TDUK|04 March 26|Design, Sustainability
Although timber is classed as a low embodied carbon construction material, different timber products will have different embodied carbon values depending on the energy inputs during processing and transportation.
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Understanding Carbon Figures in Timber EPDs
by Jonathan Gutierrez|06 February 26|Supply, Sustainability
What do the biogenic carbon and A1-A3 embodied carbon figures on an EPD mean? Since the launch of TDUK’s EPD database, more TDUK members have taken the step to independently verify the environmental performance of their products across the full life cycle. This transparency benefits not only individual manufacturers but...
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Timber Topics January 2026 | Fencing
by Jennie Ward|05 January 26|Build, Supply
As cold weather approaches, make sure you have sufficient stock of fence panels so that customers can fulfil any repair work if the UK faces heavy storms over the coming months. TDUK is also reminding all merchants to make sure your teams know the different timber treatment Use Classes, so...
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Timber Topics December 2025 | EPD Database
by Jennie Ward|01 December 25|Build, Supply
 Don’t forget you can explore Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for a wide range of timber products through Timber Development UK’s online EPD database.
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Introduction to Timber and the Circular Economy
by Matt Milton|14 July 25|Design, Sustainability
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DTS achieves EPDs for full wall panel range
by Jennie Ward|09 May 25|Supply
Donaldson Timber Systems (DTS) has published third-party accredited environmental product declarations (EPD) for its full wall panel range. In 2024, the DTS open panel Alpha system became the first off-site assembled timber frame wall panel in the UK to offer an approved EPD. DTS now also holds EPDs for its...
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Timber Topics August 2024 | EPD Database
by Jennie Ward|02 August 24|Build, Supply, Sustainability
Merchants, their customers and other built environment professionals can now access Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for the most common timber products on Timber Development UK’s new online EPD database which covers products such as sawn softwood, CLT, LVL, Glulam, I-joists and hardwood plywood.
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