Sustainability
REFORESTATION
Wood is naturally sustainable. Trees keep growing as long as you keep planting them. Roseburg’s Resource Department is made up of foresters, engineers, biometricians, biologists and technicians. They create harvesting and reforestation plans that protect the land and maximize timber productivity. Our managed forest landscape is both productive and diverse — healthy and full of vigorously-growing trees. In all, our foresters plant over five million new trees each year.
RECYCLING
Roseburg was one of the first companies in the industry to produce particleboard from wood waste that was otherwise incinerated or dumped in landfills. In fact, our board plants are some of the earliest and most recycling plants in America. Our plants in Oregon, Montana, Louisiana and Mississippi process and recycle 1.5 million tons of reclaimed wood waste annually, converting it into panels that sequester carbon.
For years, we've been recycling waste materials into clean energy through our biomass cogeneration plants in Dillard, Oregon. We take wood waste from our own facilities as well as diverted wood waste from local landfills and produce clean energy for our manufacturing plants, administrative offices and nearby communities.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Roseburg has developed an Environmental Management System (EMS) at each of our manufacturing facilities. The approach is simple: make environmental consideration a natural part of everyone’s job. This program is employee-driven, and it calls on people to identify problems, write and use standard operating procedures, and take personal responsibility for environmental aspects of their jobs.
CERTIFIABLY GREEN
Roseburg offers one of the largest and most diverse selections of green building products in North America.
Over 150,000 acres of Roseburg timberland is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, while all of Roseburg’s manufacturing facilities offer products with FSC Chain-of-Custody certification.
Roseburg’s facilities manufacturing UltraBlend particleboard are third party certified to meet requirements of the Eco-Certified Composite (ECC) Sustainability Standard CPA 4-11. The standard requires compliance with the stringent California Air Resources Board (CARB) formaldehyde emissions regulation and to specifically defined environmental criteria in the fiber sourcing and manufacturing process for composite panels. Our panels meet or exceed all five criteria including: Carbon Footprint, Locally Sourced Fiber, Recycled, Recovered or Post-Consumer Fiber Content, Sustainable Use of Wood Fiber and Responsible Wood Sourcing. For more information, refer to the ECC program and our certificates.
