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Pentarch Forestry is known throughout the industry as a trusted and established forest manager and international wood marketer. We manage private forest estates to ensure optimal environmentally sustainable forest management practice* by applying: a systematic approach to sustainable forest management that is independently certified to the Australian Forestry Standard for Sustainable Forest Management AS 4708; and “forest to market” solutions that optimise returns to growers.
Our Sustainable Forestry Policy, which is part of our management plan, commits the company to complying with the relevant sustainable forest management standards, the principles of sustainable forestry and relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
Pentarch Forestry has achieved certification to the Australian Forestry Standard (AFS 4708) which is managed by Responsible Wood.
Compliance with forest management system certification is audited by an accredited, independent, third-party certification body to ensure compliance, continuous improvement, and transparency. Surveillance audits occur every nine months, with re-certification audits conducted every three years.
Pentarch Forestry has achieved multi-site chain of custody certification to the PEFC International Standard – Chain of Custody of Forest and Trees Based Products – Requirements (ST 2002) and the Australian Chain of Custody Standard (AS 4707) managed by Responsible Wood Ltd.
Chain of Custody Certification (CoC Policy) provides the opportunity to differentiate forest products harvested from responsibly managed forests in the marketplace and confers an ‘environmentally and socially-responsible’ seal of approval. Chain of custody certification traces certified material through our supply chain; forest management certification (AS/NZS 4708) covers how the forest itself is managed. Pentarch has established a multi-site chain of custody system for forest products across several sites throughout NSW, Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia.
Chain of Custody is the process by which materials are tracked by individual operations as wood is transformed from a tree in the forest to a product provided to a consumer in a wholesale or retail market (i.e. from forest to sawmill to processing facility to marketplace).
Through the achievement of Chain of Custody certification, Pentarch Forestry enhances its ability to demonstrate and promote a healthy, local forest products industry – the connection between a healthy forest ecosystem and certified wood product in the marketplace.
Maintaining a system of continuous improvement within the Chain of Custody certification demonstrates that Pentarch Forestry is committed to implementing and demonstrating ethical business behaviour; reassuring consumers that their purchasing decisions are responsible*.
Third party certification by organisations accredited to the appropriate standard provides the independent verification and assurance that products carrying a certification claim are from professionally managed forests or controlled sources from forests where the risk of a controversial source has been assessed as negligible.
A copy of the Responsible Wood and PEFC CoC certificates can be downloaded here. (RW CoC Certificate and PEFC CoC Certificate)
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*Pentarch sources hardwood from forests certified to AS/NZS 4708 under the Responsible Wood scheme, which is endorsed by PEFC, and our operations are chain of custody certified to AS 4707 (RW/1-31-217). See our certifications page.