Timber Report – Winter 2014

UK Sawmills

Any hopes that the rises in timber prices that the pallet and packaging industry had been experiencing from the summer of 2013 had finished were quickly dashed on recommencement after the Christmas shut down. 2014 began with the UK Sawmills imposing their greatest increases yet, with the upward movement continuing well into the spring period, […]

New technology to identify illicit lithium batteries

Lithium Batteries

Lithium batteries shipped by themselves are to be banned from passenger aircraft from the start of the new year. However, the biggest threat comes from undeclared goods. But now new technology may be able to detect lithium batteries during x-ray. Lithium metal batteries have been subject to particular scrutiny and their transport, when shipped by […]