CONFOR
( Confederation of Forest Industries)
 Malcolm Nicol, Managing Partner of Ballogie
Estate Enterprises.
 UK organisation includes processors nurseries
management companies as well as Primary
Producers
 Head Office in Edinburgh
Base Facts
• 40% Forestry in Scotland is in Public
Ownership (FCS)
• 60% of UK Timber requirements are
imported
• 40% Home production is not currently
sustainable
• Economic downturn
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Harvesting and marketing Cooperative
“Owned by growers – run by growers –
works for growers”
25 years operation
40 Members. 12,000ha.
UK largest independent timber
marketing Group
No employees/No machinery/No Office
Deliver product to market
Customer
Location
Specification supplied
End products
James Jones &
Sons Ltd (JJSL)
Mosstodloch
Sawlogs & pallet
logs
Sawn timber, pallets & fencing
John Gordon &
Son
Carrbridge
Sawlogs
Sawn timber
BSW
JJSL
Boat of Garten
Aboyne
Sawlogs
Sawlogs
Sawn timber
Sawn timber construction & fencing
Cordiners
Sawmills Ltd
Banchory
Sawlogs, pallet
logs & fencing
blanks
Sawn timber for pallets & fencing;
Pallet Logistics
Fordoun
Sawlogs & pallet
logs
Sawn timber for pallets & fencing;
Rosehill Timber Edzell
Sawlogs, pallet
logs & fencing
blanks
Sawn timber for pallets & fencing;
Munro
Harvesting
Dingwall
Small pallet logs
Slats for fencing panels
Tullochs
Nairn
Pallet logs
Sawn timber for pallets & boxes
Balcas
Invergordon
3m small
roundwood
Wood pellets
Market Trends
What is government policy ?
Trees for energy
Trees for carbon capture
Securing timber supplies
Landscape management
What to plant ?
• Market in 60 years ?
• LISS (low impact silvicultural
systems) or more intensive?
• Disease and pests
• Variable Government aims
• Climate Change
BIOMASS
• Haulage
• Aboyne Academy and Community Centre
• Hill of Banchory District Heating Scheme
• Sensitive Lorry Miles
• Lockerbie (ROCs)
• Electricity generation 30 % efficiency
• Retro fit to James Jones’s sawmill
• Norboard at Dalcross
Carbon
• Potential and problem
• Do we understand the science of carbon
systems ?
• CC Only as yet applies to new woodland
• Link between Forestry and farming
• Peatlands
• Local rather than global links
• NES carbon trading ? SAOS ?
Stathaus Hackney
PROPOSALS
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Look closely at NES renewable energy options and
how biomass fits best
Encourage funding of local biomass projects
Actively campaign against the waste of biomass
for electricity
NESAAG meet on forestry industry
No to Forest Roads requiring formal planning
approval.
Should Grant system do more to encourage more
intensive silviculture on existing forest area
What impact is energy cropping going to have on
lowground land use ?
Photograph 9 Integration of other estate activities is important.
Photo: Victor Clements 2002