Company Vision:
“To be the best in our industry supplying building materials profitably, thereby providing opportunities and security for all of us”

Our Environmental Aim:
To provide services & products to our Customers to the highest sustainable standards by working closely with our suppliers, employees & the community to minimise our impact on the environment

We will endeavour to achieve our aim by setting ourselves the following goals:

• By complying with all relevant environmental legislation, regulation, codes of
  practice and industry guidelines.
• By monitoring the major aspects of our business that impact on the environment and setting targets for improvements
• By reducing our carbon footprint for our existing businesses by 25% on energy use and 15% overall including our vehicle fleet over 10 years, seeking efficiences and implementing new technology to achieve this
• By communicating & publishing our policy and reporting to all stakeholders so that it is understood and implemented, and to establish dialogue with external parties for issues of concern
• By working with our chosen supply partners to synergise common environmental aspirations and auditing their enironmental policy annually
• By working with our local communities to improve the local environment and to encourage staff to participate in environmental projects.

This policy will be reviewd annually to ensure it remains relevant to the environmental needs of the business

Signed

Anne Ridgeon, Chairman.

This enables us to offer you fully certified FSC, PEFC and MTCC stock when you require it and covers softwoods, hardwoods, sheet materials and engineered wood products (including roof trusses and I-beams).

Obtaining a Chain of Custody underlines Ridgeons’ commitment to the environment. The company continues to work with all suppliers with the aim of expanding this portfolio.

What is Chain of Custody?
Chain of Custody is all about protecting the world’s forests from over-exploitation. Trees are important to the environment. The production of most other building materials creates significant atmospheric and water pollution. Growing trees actually counters the effects of pollution by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.

When trees take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, they convert it into carbon, which is locked away for the life of the tree, the life of its use as timber and the life of its use after possible recycling. As long as we continue to grow more trees than we harvest, using timber from well-managed forests is going to help slow the growth of global warming. So wood is increasingly important to government development strategy, and enlightened consumers are increasingly aware of the issues.

CoC is the system which links a harvest log from the forest through its various stages of processing to the point of sale. It ensures that timber bought from legal and sustainable sources passes through suppliers who also hold a CoC, and can then be sold on to customers as guaranteed certified product. Descriptions such as FSC/PEFC etc are marked on all paperwork throughout the timber’s journey through sawmills, processing yards, distribution points and sales outlets.