FORESTRY & TIMBER NEWS April 2020 Issue 98 COVID-19 A RESILIENT FORESTRY & TIMBER SECTOR PLUS TIMBER IN CONSTRUCTION SKILLS & CAREERS THE UK’S LARGEST & MOST EXCITING TREES & TIMBER SHOW FEATURING….. THE WORLD POLECLIMBING CHAMPIONSHIPS - EUROPEAN CHAINSAW CARVING CHAMPIONSHIP - WOODLAND CRAFTS - HORSE LOGGING WORLD LOG TO LEG CHAMPIONSHIP - UK FORWARDER DRIVING COMPETITION BRITISH OPEN FENCING CHAMPIONSHIPS - FOREST WORKER ZONE - ARB WORKSHOPS TREE HEALTH SEMINARS - FIREWOOD PROCESSING - BIOMASS PRODUCTION 300+ EXHIBITORS - 2½ MILES AND £60 MILLION OF WORKING MACHINERY Covid-19 Event going APF 2020 ahead 24/25/26th September Ragley Estate, Alcester, Warwickshire B49 5PS Email: [email protected] Website. www.apfexhibition.co.uk Tel: 01428 723545 Follow Us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram CONTENTS 52 | MARKETS TIMBER AUCTIONS MARKET Confor is a membership organisation REPORT that promotes sustainable forestry and FOREST MARKET REPORT wood-using businesses. 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Wrona Wolmanit® CX Trusted preservative for high quality timber treatment Wood preservatives for use class 1-4 Patented Wolmanit CX formulation, since 1989 BASF warehousing and logistics Engineering support Marketing support Leading the Way in Wood Protection BASF Wolman GmbH, Dr.-Wolman-Str. 31–33, 76547 Sinzheim, Germany, Contact: [email protected], Phone: 0161 488 5329, www.basf.com/wolman EDITORIAL A future beyond the crisis STUART GOODALL CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CONFOR ® n my February article I spoke assist with. Questions are coming in Wolmanit CX of 2020 being an important to the email address above and we year that may just live up to have set up country contact groups Trusted preservative its billing. Well the story has which include businesses from along Iquickly changed to one far the supply chain. more dramatic and immediate. These contact groups are for high quality And at this time, we don’t know important for a number of reasons: what the conclusion is or even when Politicians and public bodies want that will come. to know what’s happening in the timber treatment What I do know, after more than sector and it’s important they get as 30 years spent in the industry, is full and accurate a report as possible that we are a resilient, practical and – this exercise also helps raise the inventive industry. I also know that profile of our industry further with we are privileged to work with trees them; and wood, something that society Members will also benefit from this needs and benefits from in so knowledge of what’s happening up many ways – there’s a bright future and down the supply chain; beyond this current crisis. There are important practical Within Confor we’ve set up a matters that will arise, for example service designed to help members we are a sector that works a lot with get easy access to relevant business forestry regulators and public sector and sector information, for example suppliers and they will be under from the forestry agencies. This can pressure – we need to establish new most effectively be accessed if we ways of working. have your up to date email address. If there is anything we can do for If you’re at all uncertain whether we you, do please get in touch with have it, please email C19Qs@confor. team members direct – their email org.uk and phone contacts are on the After developing the previous page. information service we We at Confor can’t protect you moved into a phase of from Covid-19 but we will do our better understanding what best to help you protect your member’s needs are at this business and your forests during time and what can Confor these difficult times. Wood preservatives for use class 1-4 Patented Wolmanit CX formulation, since 1989 BASF warehousing and logistics Engineering support Marketing support Leading the Way in Wood Protection BASF Wolman GmbH, Dr.-Wolman-Str. 31–33, 76547 Sinzheim, Germany, Contact: [email protected], Phone: 0161 488 5329, www.basf.com/wolman GLOBAL PANDEMIC Covid-19: Confor keeps you informed onfor responded quickly to the stand the full range of their concerns enormous changes to all of our and are able to feed them [back] in to lives as the impact of Coronavi- the relevant governments and agen- Crus began to hit home - by es- cies, following a combination of a re- tablishing a web hub to share information active and a proactive approach. about how the forestry and wood process- “To support this, we established ing sector might be affected. country contact groups, led by Con- The hub - http://www.confor.org.uk/cov- for’s National Managers, to feed back id-19/ - was set up after Confor identified specific concerns from different parts an opportunity to share all relevant sector of the supply chain, from the nursery information - from industry, Government, sector through to sawmills and end us- public forestry bodies and all other stake- ers.” holders - with its 1600 members. There has also been very close contact “It was important to take a lead quickly with the public forest agencies in all parts and ensure that our members had access of the UK, with a specific emphasis on how to relevant information about Covid-19 in the current crisis will impact on site visits, one place,” said Confor CEO Stuart Goodall. felling licences, timber sales, procurement “There is a lot of anxiety around our health, and contracts. Mr Goodall has been in close but also about the future of the industry contact with all the public agencies in Eng- and we quickly realised Confor had to step land, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with up and do all it could to help the forestry Anthony Geddes, Confor’s National Man- and wood processing sector get through ager, leading in Wales. this. This has allowed reassuring messages “We are in uncharted territory and the to be shared quickly, via email, the website huge complexity of the situation means and social media, such as this from Mike that a central source of information is both Seddon, Chief Executive of Forestry Eng- useful and necessary.” land: “We aim to provide as uninterrupted service as possible for direct production, Early issues standing sales and other business opera- range of information and we encourage While the situation might have changed be- tions. We will continue to offer timber for feedback from all members. As well as the tween writing this and FTN publication, ear- sale through our e-sales platform.” normal contact points for Confor, we have ly issues are emerging around continuity of The web hub has shared a very wide established an email for you to ask ques- business operations especially key workers, tions about the impact of Covid-19 - which cashflow, possible impact on timber prices, Keeping our we will endeavour to answer quickly.
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