The Confederation of Forest Industries (ConFor) is to stage two workshops in Gloucestershire on September 5 and Scotch Corner the following day, which are designed to facilitate discussions on the industry as a whole, where it is going and how its future can be safeguarded.
“As demand for timber and timber products grows, there are valuable opportunities throughout the supply chain,” said ConFor’s chief executive Stuart Goodall said. “We want to facilitate this process.”
This includes stimulating more woodland management and timber production according to ConFor, which has warned that a drop in supply of softwood could negatively affect the English timber industry and said that Scotland could face a raw materials shortage unless a system of commercial planting is pursued by the Scottish Executive’s Rural Development Programme.
