Wood Chain of Custody Certification - Is this worth doing? What does it cost?
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Check this out Wood - Chain-of-Custody CertificationWes Bucey said:
It's like material traceability for the FAA. Use an FAA 8130-3 Form.
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tarheels4 - 2007
Sample chain of custody is necessary for any environmental sample. At least it is if you want the results to be valid and stand up to scrutiny. Samples have to be handled and preserved in a certain way to ensure analytical results reflect actual field conditions.
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Wilf from Sask
forest certification CoC
I am not sure what business you are in logging trees, milling timber or selling wood products.
I in the forestry sector, In North America there are three main Forestry certifications systems
FSC – International, with heavy Environmental NGO supported
SFI - Industry base USA standards, with mid of the road environmental group support
CSA–SFM Canadian standard, middle of the road with a strong social forestry component
Then in Europe PEFC- collection of European standards under one umbrella
The basic idea is timber produced from well-managed forests (Sustainable forest Management)
All three of the big three have chain-of-custody systems to track the “good” certified wood from the forest source to the mill, thought the mill and on to the retailer. Depending where on the supply chain you are is how much work, you get into. Chain of custody (CoC) is about track wood sources, your inventories of certified and uncertified wood in your system. The system you have is then auditable to accredited 3rd party auditor like SGS (one of many) for the FSC label. Other accredited auditors for the other certifications.
Most of the weblinks on the WWW on forest certification are related to FSC.
However, in North America they don’t have that much wood certified
For a smaller suplier it usally not worht a CoC unless your market retialer asks for it or you have a very high end final wood product for sale.
Check out https://www.sfms.com/ it talks about all the forest certifications systems
...Wilf
I am not sure what business you are in logging trees, milling timber or selling wood products.
I in the forestry sector, In North America there are three main Forestry certifications systems
FSC – International, with heavy Environmental NGO supported
SFI - Industry base USA standards, with mid of the road environmental group support
CSA–SFM Canadian standard, middle of the road with a strong social forestry component
Then in Europe PEFC- collection of European standards under one umbrella
The basic idea is timber produced from well-managed forests (Sustainable forest Management)
All three of the big three have chain-of-custody systems to track the “good” certified wood from the forest source to the mill, thought the mill and on to the retailer. Depending where on the supply chain you are is how much work, you get into. Chain of custody (CoC) is about track wood sources, your inventories of certified and uncertified wood in your system. The system you have is then auditable to accredited 3rd party auditor like SGS (one of many) for the FSC label. Other accredited auditors for the other certifications.
Most of the weblinks on the WWW on forest certification are related to FSC.
However, in North America they don’t have that much wood certified
For a smaller suplier it usally not worht a CoC unless your market retialer asks for it or you have a very high end final wood product for sale.
Check out https://www.sfms.com/ it talks about all the forest certifications systems
...Wilf
Wes Bucey
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I would guess a large number of individual consumers would like confirmation they are "doing the green thing" by purchasing furniture made from wood harvested from sustainable forests (not decimating rain forests or contributing to erosion and flooding.)
My wife is a "tree hugger" - I hesitate telling her such a certificate exists because of the trek it may involve before buying the next piece of furniture.
My wife is a "tree hugger" - I hesitate telling her such a certificate exists because of the trek it may involve before buying the next piece of furniture.
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