Hardwood

Maximise your timber sales with new merchant guide
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Timber Development UK has created The Merchant Guide to Selling Timber, a comprehensive new resource to help merchants make the most of their sales of timber and timber products. The aim of the Guide is to be an introduction to timber and timber products written specifically for timber and builders’ merchants,...
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Where timber comes from
Do you know where your timber comes from?
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Brazil is a significant global exporter of timber products. We spoke to Abimci (The Brazilian Association for Mechanically Processed Timber) to find out more about Brazilian timber exports to the UK. Brazil has the second largest forest cover in the world with a forest area of about 495 million hectares...
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Timber species
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Understand the differences between species of timber, how they are classify and main differences in the softwood and hardwood groups.
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The tree
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Introduction into trees, its different types and how they subdivide into heartwood and sapwood.
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Choosing timber species
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Read on the botanical classification of timber, the strength grading, properties and density.
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Sustainable sourcing
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Learn about sustainable management of forests, temperate forests and hardwoods, and tropical hardwoods.
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Structural use of hardwoods
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Ge to know some of the different uses hardwood has and what structural applications according to the species, origin and moisture conditions.
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Wood – decorative and practical
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Understand the difference between timber species, how they usually separate from each other botanically (Softwood and Hardwood) and the different uses they have.
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Hardwood import volumes 'highest-this-century' in Q1 2022
Hardwood import volumes ‘highest-this-century’ in Q1 2022, says TDUK
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Hardwood import volumes shot up by 30% in Q1 2022 as compared to the same period in 2021 - the highest Q1 import volumes seen for this market during this century.
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housing
Timber import volumes return to pre-pandemic levels
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A slower housing and RM&I market in Q1 2022 is being reflected in timber import volumes, which fell below the record levels seen in 2021, according to the latest Timber Development UK statistics.
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