Sustainability
Red Stag Timber maintains ISO14001 Environment Management System certification to:
- Identify and control the environmental impact of its activities and products.
- Improve its environmental performance annually.
- Implement a systematic approach to setting environmental objectives and targets, to achieving these, and to demonstrating that they have been achieved.
Specific areas where Red Stag Timber has achieved environmental objectives include:
- FSC Certification: Red Stag Timber has the internationally recognised Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification that provides timber users with confidence that it was scourced from sustainably managed forests. FSC is the only forest certification system that is supported by all major environmental groups. And a number of certification assessments, such as the US, Australian, and New Zealand Green Building Councils, only accept FSC asa proof of sustainablity. See www.fsc.org for more information.
- Bio-Fuel Energy: Red Stag Timber utilises wood-waste as a bio-fuel to generate electricity and provide thermal energy to kiln dry timber. Red Stag Timber also provides electricity to the national grid to help power New Zealand's growing energy needs.
- Carbon Foot-Print: Red Stag Timber's carbon foot print is 97% less than a similar sized sawmill that doesn't use carbon neutral electricity and thermal energy. This reduction is mostly due to utilising wood-waste as the energy source for kiln drying timber as the thermal energy required to kiln dry timber can exceed 85% of the energy usage in a modern sawmill. Utilising it's own wood-waste as an energy source ensures that both CO2 emissions and landfill disposal requirements are minimised.
Red Stag Timber is committed to sourcing wood from sustainable resources as detailed in the attached Sustainable Resource Policy.
Red Stag Timber produces FSC certified products as detailed in the attached FSC Product Groups. |
