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PEFC endorses Indonesian forestry programme
11 December, 2014
PEFC’s endorsement of the Indonesian Forestry Certification Co-operation (IFCC) was marked at an event in Jakarta today.

Snows Timber celebrates 10 years of certification
05 December, 2014
Snows Timber is marking 10 years of dual FSC and PEFC chain of custody certification by presenting a Scots pine sapling to its top 100 customers.

PEFC Italy gets tough on crime
09 October, 2014
PEFC Italy has joined three other organisations to launch a project aimed at preventing criminal organisations infiltrating the EU market.

Stora Enso CLT school opens
11 September, 2014
A new specialist school for 150 2 to 19-year-olds with profound and multiple learning difficulties has been completed using PEFC-certified Austrian spruce and pine cross-laminated timber (CLT) sourced and manufactured by Stora Enso Building and Living.

Lead importers put ipe on hold
18 August, 2014
Following Greenpeace allegations about illegality in the timber industry in Pará, Brazil, Brooks Bros and James Latham plc have taken ipé off sale. Both have also put an FSC-only rule on all imports from Brazil.

Norbord Europe extends its certification
22 July, 2014
Norbord Europe has improved its green credentials by extending the PEFC chain of custody certification to UK sites as well as applying for group FSC certification.

Poland seeks PEFC re-endorsement
21 July, 2014
The Polish Forest Certification Scheme is the latest system to seek PEFC re-endorsement for the first time.

Brazil laundering illegal timber, says Greenpeace
16 May, 2014
Greenpeace is urging Jewson to stop selling ipe decking after revealing what it says is “widespread illegal logging” in Brazil.

Danzer UK welcomes FSC reassociation roadmap
21 April, 2014
Ken Walsh, managing director of Danzer UK, described proposals for a ‘roadmap’ for the reassociation of the international Danzer Group into the Forest Stewardship Council as a “positive and encouraging” step.

Wood Awards in major sponsorship boost
21 March, 2014
The Wood Awards have secured significant new backing, with Arnold Laver, the British Woodworking Federation, and a partnership between the Malaysian Timber Council and PEFC signing up as sponsors.

Half century of forestry recognised
13 March, 2014
Len Yull, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters, former chairman and national secretary of PEFC UK, and former chair of the Forestry & Timber Association, has received Confor’s award for distinguished service to forestry.

Abandoning certification a “retrograde” step, says FSC UK
08 March, 2014
Only one of the three options in Confor’s report on forest management certification would be workable from its perspective, says FSC UK executive director Charles Thwaites.

PEFC endorsement of Chinese certification has global impact
05 March, 2014
PEFC secretary-general Ben Gunneberg said its endorsement of China’s Forest Certification Scheme (CFCS) has implications for the environmental performance of the forest and timber industries worldwide.

New system mooted to replace UK forest certification
26 February, 2014
Abandoning UK forest certification in favour of a new system that could deliver legal and sustainable forest management requirements at a cheaper cost is being mooted in a new report commissioned for Confor.

London CLT apartment block is a PEFC world first
15 January, 2014
A seven-storey apartment block on a flagship site in central London has become the first major housing development worldwide to achieve PEFC Project Certification.

Top builders increase focus on sustainability and timber
11 January, 2014
A new report shows sustainability becoming an increasingly key factor for the UK’s top construction companies, and indicates that they see using timber as one of the key routes for achieving it.

Brazilian Olympics accept PEFC and FSC
06 January, 2014
The organisers of the Rio Olympics are demanding that all timber and wood products used in 2016 Games developments are certified environmentally sound – specifying three certification schemes as acceptable proof of sustainability.