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Did You Know?
China and Korea account for about 14 per cent of Canada's lumber market share.
Canada Wood Worldwide News/Media - All Regions
Date: Year/Month/Day
- 2012-4-11
- Korea
Canada Wood Group - Request for Qualifications
Canada Wood Group - Request for Qualifications
Canada Wood is seeking people with significant senior-level experience and qualifications in both the management and delivery of market development activities which may include wood product testing, research, technical support, technical submission development and foreign market acceptance services. Canada Wood is also active in technology transfer in Asia and therefore requires contractors who can manage and deliver training programs targeted at builders, designers and regulatory officials. Canada Wood manages/delivers programs with activities that include media, trade shows, missions and other promotional activities designed to expand markets for Canadian wood products.
If you or your organization is interested in working for Canada Wood, please download and complete the instructions in the request for proposals here:
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Deadline for RFQ Submissions is May 11, 2012.
Return completed RFQs to rfq@canadawood.org
Suppliers selected through this Request for Qualifications process will make up a “Qualified List” for services that may include:
• Providing project management, project work planning, project budget management and project team selection services for CWG market access activities or market development activities.
• Undertaking specific product / market research, trials, testing or other product development services;
• Developing, delivering and / or presenting technical submissions to foreign regulatory agencies;
• Liaising with foreign government regulatory agencies responsible for forest product acceptance;
• Assisting CWG in the development of promotional materials to communicate the technical case for the maintained or enhanced use of Lumber products in international markets;
• Conceiving and delivering training in emerging market situations.
Media Contact:
- Name: Canada Wood Group
- Email: rfq@canadawood.or.kr
- 2012-01-13
- U.K
Real Cedar at The National Homebuilding & Renovating Show 2012, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK. Dates: 29 March to 1 April 2012
Canada Wood UK will represent the Western Red Cedar Export Association at The National Homebuilding & Renovating Show, the UK's biggest show dedicated to the self-build and renovation sector. The team will display samples and literature at stand N123, and be happy to discuss requirements and take questions.
Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) combines form and function like no other wood or man-made material, beautiful, durable and stable, ideal for interior and exterior cladding, ceilings, joinery and decking applications. The wood is available from UK merchants who offer a variety of grades and profiles suited to your project.
Media Contact:
- Name: Patrick Cooper
- Email: office@canadawooduk.org
- 2012-01-13
- U.K
Wood products from Ontario and Quebec on display at Ecobuild 2012, ExCeL, London, 20 - 22 March 2012
Canada Wood UK will be working with Ontario Wood and the Quebec Wood Export Bureau to assist in representing their members, whose products include softwood and hardwood lumber, engineered wood, prefabricated, panelised and log homes, treated wood, millwork, and remanufactured and finished products. Our manufacturers offer products in maple, birch, ash, hickory, butternut, poplar, walnut, spruce, pine, cedar, hemlock, oak, cherry, beech, elm and many more species besides.
Media Contact:
- Name: Patrick Cooper
- Email: office@canadawooduk.org
- 2011-08-26
- Japan
3.11 Aftershocks: Impacts & Implications for Canada\'s Forest Products Industry
Shawn Lawlor and the Canada Wood team in Japan have undertaken a tremendous amount of customer and stakeholder face-to-face research since the devastating ‘quake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11th of this year. This legwork has been rolled up into a well-written report which aims to gauge the impact of the event on the policy environment, future construction industry activity and prospects for Canadian wood products.
Media Contact:
- Name: Shawn Lawlor
- Tel: 81-3-5401-0531
- Email: info@canadawood.jp
- 2011-05-24
- U.K
Timber Expo and Wood Awards
Canada Wood UK, Ontario Wood and the Quebec Wood Export Bureau will participate at Timber Expo and support The Wood Awards jointly. We look forward to welcoming visitors to our exhibition stand.
Timber Expo will bring leading suppliers and specifiers together for a combined conference and exhibition. The UK's only dedicated event for the timber industry will reveal a comprehensive display of applications for timber and serve as a showcase for wood in construction and sustainable building design.
The Wood Awards 2011 winners will be unveiled at a ceremony to be held at Timber Expo.
Media Contact:
- Name: Patrick Cooper
- Email: patrick.cooper@canadawooduk.org
- 2011-05-10
- U.K
Canadian Structural Timber Brochure
CE marking of construction products will become mandatory throughout the EU, including in the UK, in 2013 – the CE mark is in fact already applied to many construction products. A new Canadian Structural Timber brochure from Canada Wood UK provides a wealth of detail for understanding the requirements for structural timber as well as providing structural design values for Canadian strength-graded timber formerly in BS 5268: Part 2 now withdrawn and replaced with Eurocode 5. The publication is focussed on the needs of producers and buyers alike and provides much needed clarity of explanation.
Media Contact:
- Name: Patrick Cooper
- Email: patrick.cooper@canadawooduk.org
- 2011-04-18
- U.K
A Carbon Footprint of Four Canadian Wood Products Delivered to the UK
As trees grow they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen. Wood products are literally made of carbon dioxide which remains stored throughout their lifetime. Two Canadian research organisations completed a study on the carbon footprint of four wood products manufactured in the west coast of Canada and delivered to the UK, the aim being to help to address specifiers’ and designers’ increasing need for reliable scientific data. The research showed that very little energy is required to harvest trees, manufacture wood products and transport them to market, and confirmed that in all four cases the products represent a net carbon sink upon delivery.
Britain uses a large amount of timber, paper, boards and other wood products each year, and around 85% of this has to be imported. Britain must import wood products from somewhere if it is to avoid using more energy intensive and polluting materials instead. Canada is home to 10% of the worlds’ forests and contains more third-party certified and protected forests than any other country. What better place to source wood that is sustainably grown and legally harvested!
Media Contact:
- Name: Patrick Cooper
- Email: patrick.cooper@canadawooduk.org
- 2011-02-1
- U.K
Ecobuild, ExCeL, London; 1-3 March 2011
Canada Wood UK will represent the Quebec Wood Export Bureau and Western Red Cedar Export Association at the Canadian Pavilion at Ecobuild this year.
We welcome visitors interested to find out about Canadian softwoods, hardwoods, factory-built wood frame homes, flooring, cladding, forest management and much more.
Media Contact:
- Name: Patrick Cooper
- Email: office@canadawooduk.org
- 2010-07-5
- Canada
Vancouver Showcases Wood Frame technology at Shanghai EXPO
Media： CCTV French Channel
- 2010-07-4
- Canada
Vancouver displays wood frame technology in its pavilion at Shanghai EXPO
Media: CCTV 2
- 2010-06-29
- Canada
Dujiangyan Xiang E school, Built with Wood Frame Technology displayed in Vancouver Pavilion, Shanghai EXPO
Media: Shanghai TV station
- 2010-05-21
- U.K
Canada is ‘In Touch with Timber'
The Timber Research and Development Association’s (TRADA) ‘In Touch with Timber 2010’ seminar was held in London on 18 May 2010. The one-day seminar was arranged to inspire construction industry professionals make the most of timber, both structurally and aesthetically, while providing an update on latest developments, ideas and innovations.
The event takes place annually, and this year's theme was 'Innovations in Timber', focussing on what has been and can be achieved with timber. The programme comprised of four inspirational seminars in the morning, including an insight into the design of the Woodwave roof structure used on the Richmond Oval Winter Olympic Stadium in Vancouver, provided by Paul Fast of Fast + Epp Engineers.
Alongside the seminar programme there was an exhibition showcasing timber-based products and services. Canada Wood UK was amongst eighteen organisations that supported the event, and arranged a stand from which partner association’s literature was distributed, samples shown, and technical advice provided.
The event was attended by approximately 150 architects, engineers, contractors, architectural technologists, surveyors, timber importers, and journalists.
TRADA is planning to launch a new UK show for the timber industry in June 2011, titled Timber Expo. The two-day event will comprise the highly informative In Touch With Timber conference and a supporting exhibition. TRADA aim to attract at least 100 exhibitors offering timber industry solutions and technogies. The location of the show has yet to be decided, but it is likely to be in the English Midlands region.
Media Contact:
- Name: Loretta Sales
- Email: loretta.sales@timber-expo.co.uk
- 2010-05-21
- U.K
The Wood Awards
Canada Wood UK encourages wood users to identify relevant projects undertaken by their company in the last year and enter them into The Woods Awards 2010. The Wood Awards is the UK’s premier architecture and furniture competition, celebrating excellence in design in the world’s most sustainable material.
Media Contact:
- Name: Sarah Dade
- Email: sarah.dade@thegoodagency.co.uk
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