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UFEMAT, the European Association of National Builders' Merchant Associations and Manufacturers, is organising its annual congress with the theme "The Building Industry: 2010-2020.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling MP visited BSW Timber's Howie Forest Products site at Dalbeattie last week in the run-up to the election.

The Performance Timber Products Group has bought the order book and intellectual property of Dale Joinery (Lichfield) from its administrator Leonard Curtis.

Cement company Lafarge UK is to introduce a cement collection and recycling service to help builders merchants cut waste going to landfill.

Independent builders merchant buying group NMBS will be launching the 2010 edition of The Green Product Guide at the group's annual exhibition next week.

Anne Ganley, managing director of independent builders merchant Thompson Building Centres in Sunderland is on her way to climb Mount Everest for charity.

Independent builders merchant buying group NMBS will be demonstrating its e-trading offers at the group's annual exhibition next week.

The construction industry has a crucial role to play in the UK's economic recovery, according to the newly-elected chairman of the Construction products Association.

The continuing recession in the UK construction industry is holding back recovery in the wider UK economy according to the latest Construction Products Association forecasts.

Builders merchant Carl Timmins who works at Burdens Builders Merchants in West Bromwich and Luke Moore from Halesowen who works at Black Country Motorcycles in Tipton, will be biking from John O Groats to Lands End in aid of charity.