Expo success

Exhibitors and visitors have hailed Timber Expo 2011 as a success, showcasing a sector which has embraced new technologies, new products and new ways of bringing solutions to market efficiently and cost-effectively.

The creativity of exhibitors was particularly noted, demonstrating timber’s structural and design potential – singled out was the Trada stand, featuring Price & Myers’ Hy-Pavilion.

Timber Expo 2012 is already 40% booked – on a show which will be 50% bigger than this year’s.

More than 4,000 visitors, including architects, engineers, contractors and local authorities, attended Timber Expo. The two-day programmes of seminars and tutorials in the Frame Wise Timber Talk theatre, the SIP Talk theatre sponsored by the UK SIP Association and the BM Trada Group forum attracted hundreds of delegates, and around 200 guests attended the Wood Awards 2011 winners’ ceremony on the opening day of the show.

A feature unique to Timber Expo was the Timber Buyers Forum, which linked exhibitors with major contractors, developers and clients. According to Martin Chambers, director of Shaylor Group, his visit to Timber Expo was an ‘excellent use of a day’. “The fact that the show was purely about timber is what made it special for me,” he said. “There is so much knowledge here as well as for me an ‘Aladdin’s cave’ of new products.”

Marketing manager of Trada Technology, Rupert Scott, said: “This was the right time to seize the day and to give timber its own show in the UK. Designed to provide a unique opportunity for dialogue, networking and forging new business links, Timber Expo has more than fulfilled its potential and our expectations as organisers.”

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