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If you are a small company it should be relatively easy, and not as expensive as you might think - it enables you to maintain chain of custody when buying and selling FSC certified timber which is always a bonus when selling to the mills.

 

We are in the process of going FSC accredited and appointing a consultant at the moment,and if you have a good quality management system in place it should be even easier.

 

One thing I learned recently is that if you are selling to a mill, and you are buying timber standing from a FSC certified source, even though the chain of custody is lost when you sell it, due to a recent change in the rules, you can now legitimately sell it as FSC controlled wood as it was grown and produced in a certified stand

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If you are a small company it should be relatively easy, and not as expensive as you might think - it enables you to maintain chain of custody when buying and selling FSC certified timber which is always a bonus when selling to the mills.

 

We are in the process of going FSC accredited and appointing a consultant at the moment,and if you have a good quality management system in place it should be even easier.

 

One thing I learned recently is that if you are selling to a mill, and you are buying timber standing from a FSC certified source, even though the chain of custody is lost when you sell it, due to a recent change in the rules, you can now legitimately sell it as FSC controlled wood as it was grown and produced in a certified stand

 

What do you define as quality management? I have a friend, using horses as his primary extraction, who has supplied two mills, separate for hardwoods/softwoods, who cannot take his timber anymore because he is not FSC certified, he has been told it will cost in the region of £2000. Seems like a money spinner for someone. Thanks for the bit about buying the standing timber from an accredited source, that maybe the loophole he needs.

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What do you define as quality management? I have a friend, using horses as his primary extraction, who has supplied two mills, separate for hardwoods/softwoods, who cannot take his timber anymore because he is not FSC certified, he has been told it will cost in the region of £2000. Seems like a money spinner for someone. Thanks for the bit about buying the standing timber from an accredited source, that maybe the loophole he needs.

 

Yep, I would think that he will need ot look for standing sales from FSC certified stands and then he can sell it as FSC controlled rather than FSC certified.

 

£2000 for FSC accreditation seems extremely expensive - about 1k sounds about right (maximum)

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Yep, I would think that he will need ot look for standing sales from FSC certified stands and then he can sell it as FSC controlled rather than FSC certified.

 

£2000 for FSC accreditation seems extremely expensive - about 1k sounds about right (maximum)

 

Thanks for that, as the timber is being felled from FSC certified stands, my friend is going to follow up first thing in the morning.

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