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All our mills in the United States that use logs or wood chips as their raw material are independently certified as meeting the SFI Certified Sourcing Standard. This includes all our primary facilities, which use logs or chips to produce pulp, paper, lumber, plywood and oriented strand board.

All our secondary manufacturing plants also meet the SFI Certified Sourcing Standard. Secondary mills use primary wood products such as lumber and veneer as their raw material. These certified product lines include I-joist, Parallam, Microllam, and Shear Brace.

All our manufacturing facilities have environmental management systems aligned with the ISO 14001 standard.

CHAIN-OF-CUSTODY

Under the SFI/PEFC standard, wood from certified forests used to make products is tracked through each stage of production from the forest to the end product. The chain-of-custody provision allows more precise claims about certified content. Most of our mills in Canada are independently certified as meeting the chain-of-custody requirements of the PEFC and SFI standards and all meet the procurement provisions of the SFI standard. Our Longview liquid packaging and NORPAC paper facilities in Longview, Wash., are independently certified as meeting the SFI procurement and chain-of –custody standards.

Brazil Product certification standard
Posta da Mata, Bahia, Brazil, Hardwood lumber Cerflor, PEFC and FSC Chain of Custody
FSC Controlled Wood
Canada Product certification standard
Drayton Valley, AB, softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
SFI/PEFC Chain of Custody
Edson, AB, Structurwood mill SFI Certified Sourcing
SFI/PEFC Chain of Custody
Grand Prairie, AB, softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
SFI/PEFC Chain of Custody
Grand Prairie, AB, pulp mill SFI Certified Sourcing
SFI/PEFC Chain of Custody
Kenora, ON, engineered lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
SFI/PEFC Chain of Custody
Princeton, BC, softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
SFI/PEFC Chain of Custody
Vancouver, BC, Parallam SFI Certified Sourcing
United States Product certification standard
Arcadia, La., Structurwood (oriented strand board) mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Arlington, Wash., hardwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Boise, ID, Shear Brace, TJO SFI Certified Sourcing
Brainerd, MN, OEM (original equipment manufacturer) SFI Certified Sourcing
FSC Chain of Custody
FSC Controlled Wood
Bruce, Miss., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Buckhannon, W.Va., Microllam® and Parallam® (engineered lumber) mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Centralia, Wash., hardwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Cottage Grove, Ore., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Dierks, Ark., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Dodson, La., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Dorchester, Wis., hardwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Dorchester, Wis., Concentration Yard SFI Certified Sourcing
Elkin, N.C., Structurwood (oriented strand board) mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Emerson, Ark., plywood mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Eugene, Ore., hardwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
SFI/PEFC Chain of Custody
Eugene, Ore., I-joist SFI Certified Sourcing
Foster, Ore., veneer mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Garibaldi, Ore., hardwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Greenville, NC, softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Grayling, Mich., Structurwood (oriented strand board) mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Holden, La., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Idabel, Okla., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Lewiston, Mich., hardwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Longview, Wash., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Longview, Wash., hardwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Longview, Wash., newsprint (NORPAC) SFI Certified Sourcing
SFI Chain of Custody
Longview, Wash., pulp & liquid packaging mill SFI Certified Sourcing
SFI Chain of Custody
McComb, Miss., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Millport, Ala., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Natchitoches, La., I-joist plant SFI Certified Sourcing
New Bern, NC, softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
New Bern, NC, pulp mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Oglethorpe (Flint River), Ga., pulp mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Philadelphia, Miss., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Plymouth, NC, softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Port Wentworth, Ga., pulp mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Raymond, Wash., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Santiam, Ore., softwood lumber mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Sutton, W.Va., Structurwood (oriented strand board) mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Zwolle, La., softwood lumber and plywood mill SFI Certified Sourcing
Uruguay Product Certification Standard
Tacuarembo, Uruguay, plywood mill FSC Chain of Custody
FSC Controlled Wood

WHAT CERTIFICATION OF OUR PROCUREMENT SYSTEMS SAYS ABOUT OUR PRODUCTS

  • We know the areas our wood comes from and the type of supplier. Whether they are certified forests owned by major timberland owners, small family forests, sawmills that supply residual chips, wood dealers or provincial governments in Canada, we can identify the percentage and source of certified content in our products.
  • We use independent auditors. Auditors of the SFI and PEFC standards must be accredited by the American National Standards Institute or the Standards Council of Canada. SFI Inc.’s 18-member multi-stakeholder board of directors comprises three chambers, representing environmental, economic and social interests equally, so it can meet the many needs of forests and communities. Board members include representatives of environmental, conservation, professional and academic groups, independent professional loggers, family forest owners, public officials, labor and the forest products industry. This diversity reflects the variety of interests in the forestry community.. PEFC is a global umbrella organization for the assessment of recognition of national forest certification schemes developed in a multi-stakeholder process. All standards provide for public consultation.
  • The SFI standard, unique among certification systems, requires manufacturers to reach out to family forest owners and educate them about sustainable forestry.
  • We require the use of best management practices by our log suppliers. These practices, developed state by state, specify proper techniques for protecting watersheds and riparian areas.
  • We promote sustainable forestry practices among those owners who have not yet pursued certification. In the United States, nearly half of our fiber comes from family forest owners for whom formal certification is a major hurdle.
  • We encourage the use of professionally trained loggers. In the U.S., 97 percent of our manufacturing facilities’ raw material is harvested and delivered by professionally trained loggers.

Last updated June 10, 2011.