Sustainability Home About Decospan Sustainability "We use wood in a sustainable way. That is one of the simplest ways of combating climate change." Trees give oxygen to our planet. Oxygen is the very first basic requirement for life on our planet. This is why it is so important to ensure adequate forest management, making space for new trees at the right time. The mature trees can then be safely used in our materials economy. This also extends the storage of CO2 during the full life of our products. This sustainable vision is central to our policy. We put this vision in practice in the Pure Wood Charter. We request our suppliers to sign and fully comply with this Charter. Decospan is also certified for FSC® (FSC-C095327) and PEFC, organisations committed to responsible forest management. Wood with this label by definition has a legal provenance and its origin is authenticated. Responsible procurement Decospan’s principal raw material is wood veneer. The trees that supply us with wood veneer also serve to store carbon and produce oxygen. Because wood is so important, we ensure we make optimum use of this material at Decospan. We do that by working with wood veneer, i.e. thinly sliced wood. We also do everything we can to guarantee our customers that our wood comes from sustainable forests. The Decospan group gives pride of place to nature in its policy and puts that responsibility into practice with the Pure Wood-charter. We ask our suppliers to sign that charter and comply with it. This is a clear sign to both suppliers and customers that our engagement with nature conservation is an important part of our strategy. 1 2 3 4 "The sustainable use of our basic raw material - wood veneer - gets the highest priority and is embedded in our company philosophy." Sustainable production On average, 30% of the energy we use in our production is solar energy, generated by the solar panels we have installed at all our production sites. The remaining 70% is green energy that we purchase from our energy supplier. We use our waste wood to bring the machinery up to the right temperature. It is also how we heat our business premises in the winter months. We ensure our buildings make optimum use of natural daylight so that we do not have artificial lighting turned on unnecessarily. In addition, Decospan also invested in wind energy. The two wind turbines in the industrial area are a source of sustainable, renewable energy. We aim to manufacture products with the lowest impact on the environment. For instance, we try to minimise emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) while making our products. Decospan also supports the initiative by the sector federation Fedustria to promote the use of wood products. The emphasis in this campaign is on the 'sustainability' of wood as a raw material. The text below gives a very good explanation of the contribution wood makes to the environment in the course of its lifecycle. When combined with sustainable forestry management, this gives wood an excellent future as a raw material. Using a simple calculator you can calculate the CO2 storage of products existing of one wood specie as well as of multiple wood species. It takes also into account the wood(fibers) in different types of panels. Discover the amount of oxygen your project gives on www.houtgeeftzuurstof.be. "Wood is never just wood. Wood is a renewable, versatile raw material that provides our society with oxygen, both literally and metaphorically." Oxygen for the environment Oxygen for the future Oxygen for the forestry Oxygen for the economy Oxygen for creative people Decospan group Industriezone Grensland Lageweg 33, 8930 Menen Belgium T +32 (0)56 52 88 00 F +32 (0)56 52 88 03 info@decospan.com Menu Home Wood solutions Brands Projects Work at Decospan About Decospan Contact Blog Client area Dealers Products Veneer Panels Wall Flooring Brands Par-ky The Twelve Cabbani Shinnoki Nordus Querkus Look'likes Astrata Woodcoustics When our employees grow, Decospan grows with them. This is how we distinguish ourselves from other companies. With the ESF project, Decospan is actively developing a context in which employees proactively work on a sustainable career by regularly considering their employability and working on the conditions for that employability. Copyright © 2021 Decospan - Privacy - Cookies Website by BOA Experience more thanks to cookies We try to provide you as a visitor to our site as pleasant an experience as possible. 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