TRADA Technology Ltd has appointed Tim Gillman to the new position of operations manager.

TRADA, the Timber Research and Development Association, has appointed four new members to its Board.

Heatrae Sadia has appointed Geoff Sutcliffe as sales manager to cover East Anglia, Essex and NE London.

Adam Filkins has joined Heatrae Sadia as sales manager for the South East England area.

Chris Taylor-Hamlin has been promoted to the position of technical director at the Bathroom Manufacturers Association.

As of January 1 2010, Rowlinson Timber has joined merchant co-operative Unimer and buying group NMBS as a Supplier Partner.

Builders merchant Build Center, part of the Wolseley group, has produced its first new product guide for its Ironmongery Center subsidiary.

Builders merchant buying group NBG LLP is bidding farewell to partner Huws Gray, the Welsh independent builders merchant, at the end of this week.

A Scottish cement firm has been fined after an explosion meant buildings up to two kilometres away were covered in cement powder.

Andrew Craig from the Caernarfon branch of builders merchant Tarvis Perkins is aiming to climb Mount Snowdon at least once a week in aid of the Breast Cancer Campaign.