The American Hardwood Export Council teams up with the Royal College of Art to merge design with sustainability
The American Hardwood Export Council will collaborate with product design students at the Royal College of Art in London to produce and exhibit chairs during the London Design Festival.
Under the leadership of tutors Sebastian Wrong and Harry Richardson, the use of wood as a material and its Life Cycle impacts have been added to the Design Products curriculum and the students have been set the challenge of designing a functional chair or seat in an American hardwood of their choice. The designs will be developed in to working prototypes with the help of Benchmark, internationally renowned for its craftsmanship in wood and long-standing relationship with designer Terence Conran.
Visitors to WWEM 2012 (Telford, UK, 7th/8th Nov) the Water Wastewater & Environmental Monitoring event, can now register for free at 
Lonza Wood Protection will be exhibiting at the 12th Carrefour International Du Bois Tradeshow, the leading exhibition of its kind amongst European timber professionals in Nantes, France.
Lonza Wood Protection will be presenting at a forthcoming Wood Marketing Federation (WMF) seminar entitled ‘Wood for All Seasons’. The event, to be held at Farmleigh House, near Phoenix Park, in Dublin on Friday 11th May aims to explore the innovative use of wood and wood products mainly in external applications as part of the WMF’s wood promotion programme. 
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