Thursday, 01 January 2004
The Home Depot and Tembec Team Up
On December 3rd, The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, and Tembec, one of the largest softwood lumber producers in Canada, announced that they reached an agreement allowing The Home Depot to offer its customers larger amounts of FSC-certified Spruce Pine Fir (SPF) lumber. read more …
Thursday, 01 January 2004
FSC Working Hard to Help you Sell
When I joined the FSC staff a year ago, it was clear that we had an opportunity to improve the marketing of FSC and FSC products. One important lesson for me early on was that FSC certificate holders (companies) are the best-equipped entities for selling FSC-certified products. Therefore FSC-US, and our non-profit partners, should be focused on marketing the FSC message, or, in marketing parlance, the �FSC brand.� For a year now we have been doing exactly that, and it is becoming ever clearer that FSC certification offers marketing advantages for those companies that utilize it. read more …
Thursday, 01 January 2004
International Federation of Building and Wood Workers
Making Life Better For Workers In The Forest read more …
Monday, 01 December 2003
Domtar–WWF Announce Partnership
Agreement Could Mean More than 20 Million Additional FSC-Certified Acres and Product Influx into U.S. Market read more …
Monday, 01 December 2003
Maine WoodNet First Group Chain-of-Custody in U.S.
Officially known as the Maine WoodNet Certified Group (MWNCG), nine participating members of Maine WoodNet were awarded a group chain-of-custody certificate (COC) in June 2002, granted by SmartWood, a program of the Rainforest Alliance. This is the first group COC awarded in the U.S., and only the second in the world. read more …
Monday, 01 December 2003
Ecolabel Study
RESEARCHERS AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY STUDY THE FSC LABEL read more …