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Promoting Sustainable Forest Management - PEFC's Unique Approach to Forest Certifiction

Forest certification is crucial in providing evidence of sustainable forest management. Increasingly, this proof is a prerequisite for doing business; certified forest materials are requested more and more in procurement policies around…

PEFC and the Financial Sector

How forest certification can help financial professionals manage environmental risk and verify sustainability is the topic of this new PEFC brochure. The publication explores why forest certification is relevant to…

PEFC Chain of Custody Certification - The Key to Selling Certified Products

Chain of Custody certification is a mechanism for tracking certified material from the forest to the final product. This publication is intended to help companies familiarize themselves with the most…

PEFC Project Chain of Custody Certification - One Project, One Message

PEFC Project Chain of Custody certification recognises that not all parties involved in specific projects are certified, even though forest-based material used for the project is covered by Chain of…

PEFC Project Chain of Custody Certification - An Introduction

Project Chain of Custody is a specific form of Chain of Custody certification that allows you to take advantage of PEFC certification for specific projects. this works particularly well for…

Marcomms, Print & Certified Paper

Companies using paper and packaging products are increasingly keen to demonstrate a commitment to responsible sourcing by developing credible paper procurement policies which recognise both recycled and certified virgin fibre…

PEFC - A Guide For Retailers

The choices that retailers make on their customers’ behalf when sourcing paper and wood products can have a significant impact on the state of the world’s forests. As well as…

The Responsible Choice For Wood and Paper Products

As consumers, we can make a difference to the world’s forests by choosing to buy only certified wood and paper products. The PEFC logo is your assurance that products bearing…

Your Assurance of Responsible Sourcing

Companies enjoy multiple benefits with PEFC Chain of Custody (CoC) certification, a new brochure by PEFC, the world's largest forest certification system, explains. With more and more public and private…

Construction and PEFC-Certified Timber

Timber is a material that sits at the heart of the construction industry. As well as having the lowest embodied CO2 of any commercially available building material, it is increasingly…

Architects, Designers, and Certified Timber

Timber is the link between building and nature. The variety and species of timber available from PEFC sources is enormous. There are an endless variety of colours, grain patterns and…

Certified Paper for the Print, Packaging and Publishing Industries

Demand for sustainably produced goods is growing in the UK. consumers are becoming better informed and more concerned about the environmental provenance of the products they buy. Increasingly, companies who…

Certified Wood for the Furniture Industry

The demand for furniture manufactured from timber or wood-based products which have derived from well-managed sources is increasingly rapidly. In the recent past it has been predominantly the ‘office and…

De-mystifying Sustainable Forest Management Certification

This paper aims to answer the most frequently asked questions on sustainable forest management, chain of custody certification and logo use.

PEFC Logo Usage Toolkit

The Logo Usage Toolkit for on-product labelling is applicable to companies that have been certified to Chain of Custody certification against PEFC ST 2002:2010 and are required to use the Second Edition…

PEFC and FSC - global Sustainable Forest Management Certification Schemes

This paper aims to outline the main differences and similarities between the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as responsible forest management…

Sustainable Timber Products: A Guide To Procurement

Public sector purchasing accounts for around 40% of timber imports into the UK. Central government introduced a timber procurement policy back in 2005 which requires central government departments, Executive Agencies…

PEFC Pocket Sized Information Guide

We recognise that it's not always easy to concisely describe the PEFC programme. To help, explain to customers what's behind the PEFC "green trees" logo, we have developed a handy,…

Pass It On

The PEFC logo and label on your certified product communicates to your customers in a clear, concise and transparent manner that your wood, wood products, and non-timber forest products have…

Joinery, Fit Out and Certified Timber

Joinery, Fit Out and Certified Timber is the latest in a series of informative industry brochures from PEFC. This publication aims to inform everyone from large fit out companies to…

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