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The demand for FSC-certified wood is increasing, particularly from markets like the United States and Europe, forcing local wood processors to source more certified wood. However, this comes with a hefty price tag that increases the pressure on forest growers.

BERLIN — Indonesian officials have slammed the European Union’s proposal of a regulation that they say negates more than a decade of progress by the Southeast Asian country to comply with EU sustainable timber rules. Under a voluntary partnership agreement, or VPA, signed in 2011, Indonesia developed a system, known as the SVLK, to verify […]

Hexpol has brought its natural rubber compounds produced at its Lesina, Czechia, facility to standard for Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification.

See a few examples of sustainable packaging material innovations from HexcelPack and others from ThePackHub’s September Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

The common beech is sourced from central Europe and is located less than 40 km from Crodarom.

The common beech is sourced from central Europe and is located less than 40 km from Crodarom.

Private forests can be certified by one of two organisations who analyse the forest against a specific set of metrics.

Asian companies made their entry in force in the 1990s, in Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. In Southeast Asia, companies intensively and unsustainably logged the dipterocarp forests, the tall, straight-trunked trees so valued by the plywood industry. Implicitly, it was decided that there would be only one harvest, leaving heavily degraded forests. What followed was […]

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In 2018, a devastating storm ripped up thousands of trees in Northern Italy. Then, a bark-beetle plague struck.