Will you join us for our Spring meeting & tour of Egger UK?
Our next members' meeting and AGM is due to take place on 11th March in Hexham Northumberland, and we'd love you to be there! The meeting will include updates on industry issues, networking opportunities and the chance to learn more about what some of our service...
Demolition contractors urged to take part in sampling process before it’s too late
The Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) is making an urgent appeal for waste wood samples from the demolition of buildings built before 2007 in a bid to avert what it sees as a potential crisis that could cost the demolition sector over a 100 million pounds a year. The...
WRA Chair to open 9th European Biomass to Power conference
The WRA's Andy Hill will once again Chair the ACI's European Biomass to Power 2019 conference, which is taking place in Helsinki, Finland on November 6th and 7th. Andy, who chaired the event last year in Stockholm, will open the two day conference with a presentation...
Trade bodies unite with reciprocal membership
The Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) and The Recycling Association (TRA) have joined forces in a reciprocal arrangement that will see them share expertise and ideas to the benefit of both organisations. The reciprocal membership agreement was approved by the Boards...
WRA Member Focus | A.W. Jenkinson Forest Products
A.W. Jenkinson Forest Products was formed in the mid-1960s when founder Allan Jenkinson, took the initiative to collect unwanted sawdust and wood shavings from the sawmills around Cumbria and the Borders using a single tractor and trailer. He then transported the...
RPS for waste wood extended to 2020
The Environment Agency (EA) has extended a Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) on the use of mixed waste wood by a further ten months, to allow completion of a major project. The Waste Wood Classification (WWC) Project is being led by the Wood Recyclers’ Association...
UK could start to import waste wood biomass
Imports of waste wood biomass into the UK look a likely possibility going forward, according to the Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA). Andy Hill, Chair of the WRA, said some UK-based biomass plants had already begun to trial imports of waste wood from Europe, as the...
Thanks for coming to see us!
Thank you to all our members who attended our autumn meeting in Birmingham this week and to all those members and non members who came to see us on our stand at RWM as well. As ever we had a fantastic members' meeting, with some very interesting and thought provoking...
Join us at our Autumn Members’ Meeting
Our Autumn members' meeting will take place on Wednesday September 11th at the Birmingham Metropole Hotel, NEC prior to the start of the RWM exhibition. And usual there will be updates from key speakers on industry topics, including the latest on the waste wood...
Trade bodies warn wood PRN market does not need stability mechanism
The Wood Panels Industry Federation (WPIF) and the Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) have written a joint letter outlining their opposition to a “stability mechanism” being introduced for the wood PRN market. In a letter to John Dye, the wood sector’s representative...
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