Sustainability
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FOREST MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
As the world’s largest hardwood flooring company, Armstrong has a vested interest in protecting the forests where our raw
materials originate. Our strategy requires that we protect the communities where we extract, process and manufacture our wood
products.
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ARMSTRONG’S RESPONSIBLE FOREST MANAGEMENT POLICY REQUIRES:
- Efficient use of wood and wood products;
- Programs to support our Exotic Wood Purchasing Policy;
- Verification that no species on the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
list are used in any product;
- Training and outreach programs on sustainable forest management practices;
- A transparent program subject to internal auditing and independent verification.
Goal:
Our goal is to support sustainable forest management practices globally, including planting trees to replenish what we harvest.
Accomplishments:
We support sustainable forest management practices globally, including planting trees to replenish what we harvest.
- We partner with Hardwood Forestry Fund on tree planting and forest management activities that promote natural regeneration of hardwoods. Each project has a land
management plan to ensure the highest likelihood of success. In just two years, these efforts will yield over one million
trees in the U.S.
- We continue to work with Tropical Forest Foundation to establish supply chain management systems and education and outreach programs with offshore suppliers.
- Armstrong launched FSC-certified WoodWorks® ceilings, the first ceilings in the industry with the combination of FSC certification, Class A fire rating, no added formaldehyde
and 92% pre-consumer recycled content.
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