Environmental Pledge
For over 30 years the founders of ParaTimber have upheld a mission to help reduce the dependence of dwindling resources by incorporating effective lumber processing and recovery techniques.
FACT: Prefinished engineered wood floors reduce the amount of harvested wood.
ParaTimber built the green bandwagon that all its competitors jumped on. Being green has been part of our heritage even before ParaTimber’s inception. In 1971, our team was the first to use plantation grown Hevea (also known as Parawood or Rubberwood). After 25 years of tapping the rubber trees for latex, their yield decreases and the trees were traditionally cut down and burned. We were the first to recognize a use for this valuable hardwood resource and save it from the burn pile.
Since then, our social consciousness led us to obtain the Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) chain of custody certificate to allow us to use FSC certified woods from well managed forests. The FSC Chain of Custody (CoC) system connects responsible forest management practices and products with consumers. The chain of custody is the path taken by raw materials from the forest to the consumer, including all successive stages of processing, transformation, manufacturing and distribution. Chain of custody certification provides a guarantee for the production of FSC certified products.
For more information regarding the FSC and the chain of custody please visit www.fscus.org. We also adhere to the FSC’s Controlled Wood standard, which ensures we avoid timber from environmentally and socially damaging sources. We avoid forest operations that:
- Harvest illegally
- Violate traditional and civil rights
- Threaten high conservation value forests
- Convert forests and other wooded ecosystems to plantations or non-forest uses
- Plant genetically modified trees in the forest management unit
We actively support legitimate forestry management and illegal-logging ban initiatives in pursuit of protecting our industry from illegal and unfair business practices at the expense of one of earth's most precious resources. We’ve never been concerned with being politically correct. We’ve just always been effective stewards of the environment.
ParaTimber is a proud member of the Rainforest Alliance.
The Rainforest Alliance aims to help reconcile our growing demand for trees and other forest flora with a diminishing supply. In more than 50 countries around the world, the organization is helping businesses, governments and communities change their land-use practices and set standards for the long-term use of resources and the conservation of the planet’s great wealth of biodiversity.