Timber Topics October 2025 | Wood Campus

Timber Topics October 2025 | Wood Campus
by Jennie Ward|30 September 25|Build, Supply
Timber Development UK has launched Wood Campus, a brand-new online school designed to provide flexible, accessible training for merchants and timber professionals. The platform offers more than 60 courses and hundreds of hours of potential learning.
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Timber Topics September 2025 | Mouldings
by Jennie Ward|07 September 25|Build, Supply
For this month’s Timber Topics we’re looking at the profitable sector of timber mouldings, and how merchants can use them to boost profit margins and maximise sales.
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Timber Topics August 2025 | Timber Use Classes
by Jennie Ward|29 July 25|Build, Supply
Do you know your Use Classes? The way treated timber must be described in merchants and on site has changed. It’s up to you to understand what Use Class the treated timber products you stock have been treated to, and where it is safe for them to be used. TDUK...
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TDUK Trade Note: Temporary Duty Suspensions – an update
by Jennie Ward|01 July 25|Build, Supply
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TDUK Trade Note: EUDR Implementation in Northern Ireland
by Jennie Ward|19 June 25|Build, Supply
With less than six months until the implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) we have had many calls from members seeking clarity on the position in Northern Ireland. We have yet to receive any such clarity from the Government, but this Trade Note sets out our working assumption that...
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Timber Topics June 2025 | Why timber supplies are changing
by Jennie Ward|30 May 25|Build, Supply
A shift is underway that’s seeing Pine (European Redwood) move to take a larger section of the construction timber market due to environmental challenges and market pressures.
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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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TDUK Trade Note: USA Reciprocal Tariffs
by Jennie Ward|07 April 25|Build, Supply
The announcement from the USA to impose reciprocal tariffs on trading partners is no great surprise, but what will it mean for the UK wood sector and what retaliation could we see from the UK Government and the EU commission?
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TDUK Trade Note: Changing Log Supplies
by Jennie Ward|19 March 25|Build, Supply
Pressures on European Spruce supply mean more Pine and other species are entering the construction supply chain. What does this mean for Merchants and others?
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TDUK Trade Note: EU Anti-Dumping Investigation
by Jennie Ward|16 December 24|Build, Supply
This statement seeks to inform Timber Development UK (TDUK) members of the latest updates regarding the EU’s Anti-Dumping investigation on hardwood-faced Plywood from China.
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