Three interactive industry workshops to be held at the BMF All Industry Conference in Budapest in June will give delegates an opportunity to experience one of the BMF’s most popular recent innovations.

TrueCommerce, a HighJump company and a global provider of trading partner connectivity and integration solutions, announced that Travis Perkins plc, one of the UK's leading distributors of building materials, has implemented the TrueCommerce EDI solution, OneTime.
 

Kevin Gardner is to retire from Shropshire builders merchant Tudor Griffiths Group after over 35 years’ service.

Just over 1,700 apprentices will be picking up their free toolkits valued at around £250 each on Thursday 9th March courtesy of leading work-based training company JTL and its partners Super Rod, Klein Tools and 3M for its electrical apprentices and Monument Tools for its heating and plumbing apprentices.

Birchwood Price Tools has unveiled Matt Hunt as its new Managing Director.

Leading heating manufacturer, Vokèra, has strengthened its senior sales team with the appointment of Peter Diamant as Sales Director UK.

RGB Building Supplies has selected Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) as its chosen charity and will be fundraising for the cause throughout the year.

It may be a reaction to the barrage of news/not news that’s coming through at the moment but I’m finding myself feeling slightly nostalgic for the days when Twitter was chock full of pictures of what people ate for lunch and how long they’d been stuck in a queue at Sainsburys.

The Keystone Group and Wyckham Blackwell have announced that they have between them acquired a 50% stake in the Timber Innovations Ltd Timber Frame business in Solihull as part of a Strategic Partnership Agreement.

Timber training experts TFT Woodexperts has received accreditation from Proskills Global Ltd for its development of a Level 6 (Equivalent) Diploma in Wood Technology.