The UK must significantly expand domestic timber production to meet climate goals, strengthen wood security, and reduce the environmental impact of relying on high-carbon overseas imports.
New Editorial Lead for Timber Industry Yearbook 2025
Woodknowledge Wales members gain priority access to editorial and advertising opportunities in the UK’s flagship timber publication
New Senedd Report on the Foundational Economy
Senedd report highlights urgent need to strengthen Wales’ foundational economy through long-term support, inclusive procurement, and bottom-up innovation
Webinar: Discover how to reduce upfront embodied carbon at the earliest stages of housing design
Join us for a free online event introducing the new web-based tool to help housing professionals assess and reduce embodied carbon at the earliest stages of low-rise housing design
Case Study: Housing
Featuring a ‘timber first’ approach, using home-grown timber and timber products manufactured off-site, the Gwynfaen housing project exemplifies low carbon home construction in Wales
Case Study: Manufacturer
Two Neath Port Talbot organisations working in partnership demonstrates how targeted funding from Welsh Government promotes innovation and collaboration
Case Study: Grower
Collective action secured quality sawlogs for local businesses to process into a range of high-value timber products enabling small sawmillers to add value to the timber supply chain in Wales
Case Study: Delivering Net Zero (DNZ)
Tai ar y Cyd harnesses the power of 23 Welsh social landlords collaborating to build new zero carbon homes that will unlock wellbeing benefits for families, communities, and local economies
Case Study: Processor
Pontrilas is well-positioned to meet the growing demand for Welsh-grown timber in construction and could be instrumental in supporting Wales’s first Timber Industrial Strategy
Case Study: Circular economy
The UKs longest established manufacturer of wood-based panel products is adopting the three principles of resource circularity – reduce, reuse and recycle – at its north Wales manufacturing plant
