Category: Timber Buildings and Timber Products

West Fraser – supporting UK housebuilders with digital resources and an interactive product guide

West Fraser, a leading manufacturer of engineered wood panels for the UK construction and housebuilding sectors, continues to support customers with a suite of digital tools.

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West Fraser: Worsening weather underlines huge benefits of CaberShield Eco

A growing number of building contractors, and especially timber frame erection specialists, are making use of the weather protected panel products within the West Fraser range, allowing them to carry on working effectively despite increasingly wet winters and even the more frequent tropical-like downpours of the summer.

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BMBI: Builders’ Merchants’ like-for-like value sales for November down -0.4% year-on-year

The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants’ like-for-like total value sales in November 2025 were -0.4% lower than the same month in 2024.

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BMBI: Builders’ Merchant October value sales up +0.2% year-on-year, volumes up +0.8%

The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales in October 2025 were up +0.2% compared to the same month a year before.

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West Fraser helps housebuilders meet net zero targets

West Fraser has always been committed to being at the environmental forefront within its industry. The company promotes the benefits of sustainable forestry, with young, fast-growing trees being the lungs of Earth, breathing in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen during the day to help generate a healthy world in which we can all thrive.

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Vanquish: Expanding into the future

Vanquish Hardware Protection, the UK’s leading manufacturer of precision-engineered intumescent kits for rebated hardware in timber fire door assemblies, has announced significant expansion plans for the first quarter of 2026.

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BMBI: Merchant Q3 value sales down -0.1% but September up +4.6% year-on-year

The latest total value sales figures from Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) show that sales for Q3 2025 were down -0.1% compared to Q3 2024.

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Pinewood Structures using West Fraser SterlingOSB Zero across its offsite systems

A specialist timber engineering company is making extensive use of West Fraser’s SterlingOSB Zero in the production of its diverse offering of offsite solutions

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