Experts in wood since 1885

In a few weeks’ time, work on this professional high school in Chalon-sur-Saône (71) will be finished It will have taken almost 3 years to carry out this project using a unique construction approach: the use of CLT oak panels. The bold choice of public decision-makers, a creative architect and committed partners from the local wood industry who promote secondary quality oak. First reactions show that the challenge was met with success!

Four years after the previous event, the 7th Euroforest open-air event will bring the forest-wood sector together in France, in Saint Bonnet de Joux, Saône et-Loire from 21 to 23 June 2018. The leading forestry exhibition in France, ranked 3rd in Europe, held on a 300-acre site with a 1.5 mile circuit and an expected 40,000 visitors: this is the must-attend forest-wood sector event in 2018! The Ducerf Group, one of the leading regional players in the hardwood sector specialising in the 1st and 2nd transformations, will be in attendance.

It was an entirely atypical and totemic project at the crossroads of art and diplomacy. To create and design the work of art, Nairobi Caprice, the artist Didier Trénet chose Ducerf’s high-temperature treated wood. An impressive statue that has taken pride of place at the heart of the new French embassy in Kenya since Bastille Day last year. A wonderful adventure. Interview with Didier Trénet...