Canfor is committed to the responsible stewardship
of the forest resources entrusted to our care. In keeping
with this commitment, Canfor is implementing a very
deliberate and comprehensive certification strategy
for its forestlands and operations positioning the
company as a North American leader.
Canfor is one of
the first forest companies to have completed an ISO
14001 Environmental Management System
(EMS) certification for all of its woodlands operations.
Canfor's Rustad sawmill EMS is certified to the ISO
14001 standards and the company's pulp mills also have
been certified to both the ISO 9001 and 14001 standard.
Building
on its ISO certification, Canfor has also certified
most its woodlands operations to Sustainable
Forest Management (SFM) standards. As of July 2005,
80% of the annual harvest volume from Canfor’s
own tenures are certified to either the Canadian Standards
Association (CSA) Sustainable Forest Management Standard
or the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)®.
This will rise to 85% by the end of 2005, and Canfor
is committed to having all company managed forest lands
certified by the end of 2006.
Canfor's certification
strategy is ongoing. We continue to work towards
certification of our volume- based
tenures to the CSA and SFI standards and we continue
to monitor the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) regional
standards development process.
Canfor was also the
first forest company to qualify one of its mills
to CSA International's Forest Products
Chain of Custody Qualification and Marking Program.
Chain of custody charts the progress of forest
products from their point of origin, the certified
forest
area, through all stages in the manufacturing process,
to
the point at which they are delivered to the customer.
Canfor is continuing to develop chain of custody
processes for all its mills.
Through all of these
initiatives, Canfor continues to provide the independent
proof of our environmental
performance to our customers and to our stakeholders.
Canfor makes every effort to communicate our
certification progress to our customers and interested
parties.
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