Forest Industries

Scotland’s forest industries have benefited from investment of more than £1 billion in state of the art technologies over the past 20 years, allowing us to compete on a global scale.

Latest News

Wm Grants showcases manufacturing best practice: 02 September 2010
Funding available to train your employees: The Flexible Training Opportunities programme gives Scottish businesses with 1-50 employees the opportunity to apply for up to £500 towards employee training costs.; 24 August 2010
Babcock Marine Division share their manufacturing best practice: The award of the multi-million pound contract from the Ministry of Defence was a major achievement for Babcock Marine, at Rosyth. Winning these significant new orders also led to a realisation that, to successfully handle the increased workload, they would need to improve their working practices.; 09 June 2010

Latest Events

Customer Care Champions

Customer Care Champions is an easy to use online, cost effective, on-the-job training programme

date: 20 November 2010

Venue: Apex House, 99 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5HD

Going4Growth - Borders

Going4Growth Borders is targeted at entrepreneurs and will provide delegates with the chance to hear and learn from a panel of successful, local entrepreneurs as well as having opportunities to network.

date: 06 October 2010

Venue: Tweed Horizons, St Boswells, Newton St Boswells, Roxburghshire, TD6 0SG

Managing People for Growth - Dumfries and Galloway

Managing People for Growth is a programme of workshops designed to help organisations maximise the potential of their people managers, to allow them to become fully effective and to give them the tools and attitudes to continue that development throughout their career.

The Managing People for Growth programme will run from September 2010 to January 2011. There are four mandatory workshops plus four optional workshops and an optional review session.

date: 14 September 2010

Venue: Cairndale Hotel, English Street, Dumfries, DG1 2DF,

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Forest Industries

Our dedicated forest industries team provides specialist support to all types of organisations involved in forest industries, from owners and contractors to hauliers and processors.

Our purpose is to act as the catalyst in the formation of a group of forestry industries, linked as customers, suppliers, partners, service providers and researchers - all collaborating to their mutual benefit.

We believe that Scotland has the potential to develop global excellence in forest industries and are keen to establish wood as the ‘natural choice’ for sustainable and innovative solutions.