June 2013
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The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC),
the leading international trade association for the
American hardwood industry, has announced
plans for a trade servicing mission to South Africa
in May this year.
Thebe Exhibitions and Projects is pleased to
announce the launch of the BRICS Trade &
Investment Exchange, a Trade Fair dedicated to
promoting intra-BRICS trade by promoting business.
Appointments
diary & appointments
THE BRICS TRADE &
Investment Exchange, which was formally
launched at the Fifth BRICS Summit, held from 26 – 27 March 2013 at
the Durban International Convention Centre (ICC), is scheduled to take
place from 16 –18 October 2013 at the Sandton Convention Centre.
The aim of this event is to highlight new business opportuni-
ties between the BRICS countries and to provide a platform for
companies, government institutions and business associations
from all of the BRICS nations to draw attention to and showcase key
Magnet
LEFT: Shalendra Barath sales
engineer, specialising in electrical
products.
RIGHT: Brad Ludewick, sales
engineer, specialising in abrasives.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWS
AHEC’s participation at the
Dubai WoodShow 2013 where Michael Snow, executive director and
Roderick Wiles, director for Africa, Middle East, India and Oceania,
highlighted the environmental credentials and market potential of
U.S hardwoods at the ‘Dubai WoodShow 2013’seminar. The seminar
was centered on the various possibilities of building with wood with
the speakers covering fourmain topics including –wood as a building
material in the GCC; wood as a design component of architectural
projects; the current state of wood use in the GCC; and timber legality.
Building a case for wood as the only true and naturally sustainable
building material, Michael Snow talked about the ISO-conformant
report on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of rough-sawn kiln-dried
American hardwood lumber and threw the spotlight on the true
environmental credentials of the U.S. hardwood resource. AHEC
BRICS Trade & Investment Exchange launched
investment and trade opportunities tobuyers fromother BRICS nations.
The BRICS Trade & Investment Exchange will be a three-day
business-to-business trade fair and networking platformdedicated to
promoting trade and investment between BRICS nations.
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation, which
hosted the Fifth BRICS Summit, has granted its official endorsement of
the BRICS Trade and Investment Exchange.
Exhibitors at this event will include companies from a broad range
of sectorswithin the various BRICS nations, including, but not limited to:
transport, construction, manufacturing, minerals, energy, petroleum,
agriculture, retail, automotive, ICT, telecommunications, textiles and
pharmaceuticals. Exhibitors will have the opportunity tomeet targeted
local and international visitors who have a vested interest in trading
with other BRICS nations, thereby developing lucrative business con-
nections while gaining an early foothold in a burgeoning market.
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South African first
commissioned the LCA study in 2010 and the recently released report
contains extensive data on the environmental profile of U.S. rough-
sawn, kiln-dried hardwood lumber using a comprehensive set of
environmental impacts. In addition, it also covers the environmental
life cycle of hardwood lumber frompoint of harvest in theU.S. through
to delivery at the importers yard in major export markets. Snow also
outlined the current progress in developing Environmental Product
Declarations (EPD) for American hardwoods and was confident that
EPDs will soon be widely recognised as an essential standard across
leading building rating systems.
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LEFT:
Roderick Wiles, AHEC director for Africa, Middle East, India and Oceania
and Michael Snow, AHEC Executive Director at the Dubai WoodShow 2013.
Redpath Mining South Africa
Ockert Douglas,
managing director.
Babcock
Deon Verreyne, managing
director industrial business.
Power Technologies (Powertech)
Vally Padayachee executive director for
business development and marketing.
Vic Prins,
director aviation.
Royal HaskoningDHV
