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26 September 2024
KFC: Embracing sustainability with PEFC-certified packaging
Packaging
Partnering with PEFC, KFC Austria enhanced packaging sustainability and underscored their commitment to sustainable sourcing. PEFC-certified packaging reduces KFC Austria's environmental footprint, with the PEFC label clearly signalling this commitment to consumers.
8 August 2024
Beyond by BabyLove: pioneering sustainable nappies with PEFC certification
Packaging
Beyond by BabyLove, a premium nappy range by Unicharm, demonstrates its commitment to sustainability by incorporating PEFC-certified materials in their products. But how and why did Beyond by BabyLove include PEFC-certified materials in their nappies?
22 July 2024
Lamipak: leading the charge in sustainable packaging with PEFC certification
Packaging
With a strong focus on sustainability, Lamipak actively incorporates PEFC-certified materials into its packaging, reinforcing its commitment to responsible sourcing and environmental stewardship.
13 October 2023
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital: PEFC-certified timber helps to heal
Construction
PEFC-certified timber stars in a new healthcare project for Alder Hey children's hospital, helping to create a unique space for healing. Alder Hey breaks with the cold, institutional appearance of many hospitals with the sensitive and creative use of timber.
15 September 2023
Modvion Wind Turbine: sustainable wind energy thanks to wood
Construction
Wind power and PEFC-certified timber are coming together in a 105-metre wind turbine tower made of laminated veneer lumber. Wood technology company Modvion are currently installing the tower in Sweden. It will be the tallest of its kind using LVL supplied by the Finnish wood product company Metsä Wood.
11 August 2023
A new home for an old friend
Construction
After serving as a meeting point for PEFC staff and visitors at two World Architecture Festivals, our show stand had reached the end of its first life. Recognising that wood is a valuable natural resource, it was carefully dismantled and found a new home in Portugal.
10 July 2023
Clifford’s Tower: PEFC-certified timber gives new life to an ancient monument
Construction
Clifford’s Tower is the largest surviving structure from the medieval royal castle of York, built in the mid-13th century. It has been radically transformed with a modern timber staircase and engineered timber viewing area, breathing new life into this ancient monument.
5 July 2023
La Serrezuela: a wooden shopping centre gives bullring of the past a new life
Construction
The iconic construction combines a unique shopping experience with cultural and gastronomic delights, is surrounded by history and design – and made of PEFC-certified timber.
22 June 2023
HAUT Amsterdam: PEFC-certified timber stars in the Netherlands’ tallest hybrid wooden building
Construction
With a height of 73 metres, HAUT is the tallest wooden residential building in the Netherlands, and one of the tallest timber-hybrid buildings in the world. Over 2,800 m3 of PEFC-certified timber was used for construction, storing 1,800 tonnes of CO2.
18 May 2023
Strengthening the system through innovation
Annual Review
We work to accelerate the uptake of forest certification globally through the innovation of our standards and requirements. In 2022, a new standard and two guidance documents were in the centre of our work.
20 April 2023
Gulou Bridge Waterfront: Timber Bridge connects the local cultural heritage with rural development
Construction
Hundreds of PEFC-certified wooden elements are bolted together to form the bridge, paying tribute to the traditional construction techniques employed in the rural villages of southern China.
6 April 2023
ABBA Arena: unique attraction with a new approach to timber design
Construction
London’s ABBA Arena is a unique state-of-the-art building with an innovative approach to timber design. The structure of steel and PEFC-certified cross laminated timber (CLT) is fully demountable, demonstrating a sustainable, circular mindset with a view to both the building’s future reuse and carbon capture.
31 March 2023
A renewable, recyclable package that resonates with eco-conscious consumers
Packaging
Companies around the world are choosing fibre-based packaging from sustainably managed forests as alternatives to their traditional, often fossil-based materials. One of them is PEFC-certified paper and packaging manufacturer WestRock.
29 March 2023
EDGE Suedkreuz Berlin: an office building of the future
Construction
Berlin is home to one of the largest modular timber-hybrid constructions in Europe. The seven-storey office complex EDGE Suedkreuz Berlin sets new standards in sustainable construction.
16 February 2023
Växjö Town Hall and Train Station: sustainable, functional, and inviting
Construction
The iconic new railway station and public building won the Highly Commended prize for the 2022 Best Use of Certified Timber Prize, supported by PEFC.
31 December 2022
Engagement with the market
Annual Review
Forest-based products have an important role to play as the world moves away from fossil-based materials. At PEFC, we work with several sectors to increase their use of certified, forest-based materials for the benefit of our planet, whilst also helping industries reach their sustainability targets.
31 December 2022
How PEFC meets best practice
Annual Review
As a bottom-up organization, collaboration, exchange and feedback from outside have always been key for PEFC. We work with a range of actors and partners from around the world, knowing that together we can be more than the sum of our parts. In 2022 we intensified our collaboration at EU level and in the ASEAN region. Assessments and evaluations from third parties help us develop further and become even better.
31 December 2022
Helping actors become ambassadors
Annual Review
We are reaching out and giving the word to the people on the ground, to hear what forests and certification mean to them, making people and companies around the world our ambassadors for sustainability and forest certification.
23 November 2022
Meeting our certified companies – Geuther Vietnam
Furniture & homeware
Hear from Diem Vo, HR and Compliance Manager at GEUTHER Vietnam and learn more about the production of their wooden products, and the considerations behind it.