Forestry Memories

Scottish Forest Product Development group

Photograph courtesy of David Foot, Surrey.

David writes ‘The purpose of the group was to promote a renaissance of the wood using industry in Scotland following the collapse of the Scottish Pulp and Paper Mills and other factories in the severe recession in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Over a period of about ten years it worked to attract into Scotland (and North England) several new wood processing plants including Norbord in Dalcross, and (much later) Caledonian Paper at Irvine.

The group comprised:

Forestry Commission
Highlands and Islands Development Board
Scottish Enterprise
The Private Forestry Sector
Forestry Industry Council of Great Britain’.

Some people have been named as follows:
1. ?
2. ?
3. David Foot - FC (Director Harvesting and Marketing)
4. ?
5. Roger Bradley – FC Commissioner?
6.
7. Steve Quigley FC H&M Division
8. John Oakley FC H&M Division
9. ? Worsley? HIE/HIDB
10. Gwyn Francis – FC Commissioner (Harvesting and Marketing)
11. David Henderson -Highlands and Islands Development Board (See comments below)
12. John Firn (John Firn Associates) Forest industry consultants (Corrected - see coments below)
13. David Brierton – Tilhill Forestry (see Comment below)
14. ?

Can any other members be named?

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