Forest Research opens its forestry workforce census
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Forest Research asked forestry and wood-processing businesses to take part in its workforce census, the official data-gathering exercise behind published estimates of employment across UK forestry, harvesting and sawmilling — the labour base that supplies pallet timber.
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- Source organisation
- Forest Research
- Original date
- 11 Aug 2026
- Published by us
- 17 Sept 2026
Pallet News publishes a short original summary only. Copyright in the original update remains with the publishing organisation.
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