Environmental and Sustainability

Timbmet’s position as one of the leading suppliers of timber and timber based products in the UK brings with it a great responsibility towards the environment. Timbmet are market leaders in our commitment to the sustainability and legality of our supply base and to responsible business solutions.

We are rigorous in our approach to environmental responsibility and demanding in our expectations of others. Illegal logging and / or poor forest management pose a huge threat to the sustainability of forests, the survival of their eco-systems and the economy of producer countries. These practices, which include over-harvesting, non-payment of taxes, theft or environmental damage present a major problem to the legitimate timber industry by damaging its reputation and depressing prices. Our purchasing and compliance teams assure correct due diligence is carried out on all suppliers new and old to ensure product is received which complies with our rigorous demands.

As a naturally renewable resource, timber is the most environmentally friendly raw material available today.

We are proud that timber and timber based products are at the heart of our business, but are not complacent about the impact of the company’s operations. Only by striving to minimise any environmental impact will we ensure a future that benefits the company, customers, stakeholders and the public.

Packaging

We are registered with an accredited environmental company to discharge our obligations under the Packaging & Waste (Producer Responsibility) Regulations. Our methodologies for complying with the regulations have been audited and approved by the Environment Agency.

We continue to work with suppliers to:

Eliminate unnecessary packaging
Reduce packaging where possible
Re-use packaging for the onward distribution of product
Where packaging must be bought, to specify only recycled product

Waste management & recycling

Great efforts have been made in recent years to reduce the amount of waste we generate during the distribution process. Even so, some waste is an inevitable by-product of our business processes. Focus has therefore turned towards the extent to which our waste is recycled.

We work with a major national waste management company to increase progressively the proportion of waste being sent for recycling.

We ensure that we satisfy the requirements of the Waste (England & Wales) Regulations 2011 and provide suitable waste containers to collect the waste and allow segregation in accordance with the waste management hierarchy prescribes by the Regulations: Prevention, re-use, recycling and disposal. In this context, ‘other recovery’ is delegated to our waste management contractors.

Pollution

We accept our responsibility to protect the quality of land, air and water. Our distribution process does not produce liquid waste likely to create contamination of land or water, however our vehicle emissions will have an impact on the air. We have addressed this by establishing a modern fleet of diesel vehicles for both the sales force and for distribution. We recognise that continuous investment in modern vehicles is the only way to take advantage of developing engine technologies, bringing reductions in both energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Legality and Certification

COMMITTED TO QUALITY & THE ENVIRONMENT

RESPONSIBLE SOURCING

We are committed to procuring products and services that ensure that materials are sourced from legal and well-managed forests, and where possible, have been certified to credible certification standards and/or are from post-consumer recycled materials.

As a cornerstone of that commitment, we pursue a responsible sourcing programme to promote the use and marketing of legal and environmentally responsible forest products.

And to assist our commitment we can offer many products that carry chain of custody certification …

CHAIN OF CUSTODY CERTIFICATION

The Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC-C020677) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC/16-37-345) are organisations that bring people and companies together to find solutions that promote responsible stewardship of the world’s forests.

We hold both FSC® and PEFC chain of custody certification. Many of our products are certified to these globally recognised standards, which guarantees that the wood in the products you buy from us are legally harvested from well-managed forests. Please ask for details.

Our FSC Chain of Custody number is INT-COC-002347, INT-CW-002347.
Download our FSC Certificate*

Our PEFC Chain of Custody number is CATG-PEFC-COC-617
Download our PEFC Certificate

Quality Assurance

All our main processes are controlled through a certified Quality Management System, approved to ISO9001:2015.

This is your guarantee that all the processes created to deliver legal compliance and our first-class customer service are properly documented, professionally implemented, and internally audited. The processes also cover the Construction Products Regulation, the UK Timber Regulation and finance.

Our QMS is certified by CATG as meeting the requirements of the standard.

Our certificate number CATG-ISO-1020.
Download our ISO9001:2015 BMS Certificate