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TROPICAL WOOD FROM SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY
BETTERWOOD " Environment " Origin
Origin of our wood
It's a long way from a seedling in the tropics to a deck, tabletop or chopping board in your home. According to which principles is work done in the forests? How is the further processing and transport carried out? At this point we would like to document the history behind our tropical wood.
Bolivia
Our Garapa wood and our Cumaru substructure come from certified forestry in the Andean country.
Brazil
Our hardwood substructure comes from here. The political situation prompted us to stop imports at times.
Indonesia
The trees for our teak decking boards grow in the old teak forests on the Indonesian island of Java.
Peru
This is where the trees for our Cumaru decking come from. A TV report shows how forestry works.
Vietnam
Our cutting boards, table tops and garden furniture come from Vietnam.
TV report about Betterwood and our forest in Peru
A television team from the Pro-Sieben program “Galileo” visited us in our warehouse near Cologne and in one of our forests in Peru. The result was a report about our company and our special type of forest management.
ZDF report about Betterwood
The ZDF documentary series Plan B aims to tell stories of success and present ideas for solutions to social problems. The report on Betterwood shows that forest management can contribute to the preservation of the tropical forest. ZDF writes in a press release: “Catherine Körting (…) found a way to contribute to the preservation of the rainforest while selling tropical wood.”
Sustainability
Our wood comes from the tropical forests of Asia and South America. Our forestry operations there work according to the high ecological standards of the FSC®: clear-cutting and pesticides are prohibited, biodiversity must be preserved, and only as much wood can be taken from the forest as will grow back in the same period of time.
Fairness
The requirements of the FSC® also apply to working conditions. High safety standards, fair pay well above the national average and extensive social security and health care must be implemented in forests and sawmills. This is also checked by independent controls by the FSC®.
Transport
So that the positive environmental balance of the production does not go up in smoke when the wood is transported from Latin America to our customers, we participate in the voluntary CO2 certificate trade. The CO2 emissions of each transport are determined and offset by a reforestation project in Indonesia, which we implement in cooperation with Fairventures.
The masterpieces of our customers.
We are amazed at what our customers make out of our wood: wooden terraces in the most improbable shapes, raised beds, ship decks, washstands, bedside cabinets, mobile homes. But see for yourself.
To the customer galleryOur decking boards
Our sustainability
Concept
Sustainable forestry
Fair production
Climate neutral shipping
Direct Sales
Projects
Reforestation in Kenya
Reforestation in Indonesia
Reforestation in Brazil
Reforestation in the Amazon region
Coastal protection in Bolivia
Indigenous property rights
Agroforestry in Indonesia
Reforestation in Colombia
Reforestation in the Andes
Reforestation in Bolivia
Origin
Bolivia
Brazil
Indonesia
Peru
Vietnam