Forestry minister Elliot Morley was guest speaker at this year’s Timber Trade Federation conference in Birmingham.
More than 65 delegates attended the event where the theme was The Challenge of Sustainability.
Other speakers were Michael Ankers of the Construction Products Association; Geoff Rhodes, TTF president and marketing and sales director for Weyerhaeuser Europe; Paul Martin, director general of the TTF; George McRobbie, chairman of the Forest Industries Development Council Task Force; Rachel Butler, environmental manager at Finnforest UK Ltd; Charles Hopping, chairman of Hoppings plc; Brendan Burns, national vice chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses; Andy Roby, corporate social responsibility adviser at the TTF; Charles Trevor, managing director of wood.for good; Darren Sherborne, an employment lawyer with BPE Solicitors.
A full report follows.
