ATIBT planning one-stop tropical wood website

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The ATIBT (International Tropical Timber Technical Association) is building a one-stop website giving performance and other use and specification data for tropical timber species. This complements the ITTO LUS species database launched in 2015.

See: http://www.tropicaltimber.info/ 

The organisation, which has won support for the initiative as a project of the Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC), says the goal is to make it easier for the trade to sell tropical hardwood, and for end users and specifiers to select the right material for the job. The aim is also to broaden application of tropical wood by increasing market confidence in using it in more areas and more ambitious projects.

ATIBT has asked national European trade federations to back the site, to support translation and provide ‘catalogues’ of popular species in their market. Most have agreed.

The site is modelled on www.boistropicaux.org, which is operated by French trade association Le Commerce du Bois.

The ATIBT site will incorporate pictures of species and applications, underpinned with technical specification data from the Tropix database of French-based agricultural research organisation CIRAD.

The new facility will also provide links to complementary online sources, including the joint ETTF/ATIBT www.timbertradeportal.com legality assurance and business link website, which is sponsored by ITTO, and the species specification guide at www.houtdatabase.nl .

 

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