Sponsors include leading British and international wood marketing and promotion organisations and associations, as well
as timber product, suppliers and associated companies.
Not exact matches
Customers include the major shippers in the petroleum, chemical and petrochemical industries,
as well
as those moving fertilizers, minerals,
timber, steel, aggregates, agricultural
products, consumer goods and intermodal.
The Rainforest Alliance worked with the community of Tres Islas, located in the biodiversity capital of the Peruvian Amazon, to develop a sustainable economy that includes non-
timber forest
products like Brazil nuts and palm fruit,
as well
as sustainably harvested
timber.
China, the world's largest importer and consumer of
timber products, has emerged
as a leader in global environmental governance.
«Farmer» shall mean any person, organization, entity, association, partnership or corporation engaged in the raising of crops, or the raising of livestock or livestock
products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law, or the business of agriculture, whether for profit or otherwise, including the cultivation of land, the raising of poultry, fish, or fur - bearing animals, the harvesting of
timber or the practice of horticulture, aquaculture, apiculture or viticulture; «Generally accepted agricultural practices» shall mean those practices which are lawful, customary, reasonable, safe and necessary to the industry
as they pertain to the practices listed in subdivision a of section 3 of this local law.
«Farm operation» means the land and on - farm buildings, equipment, manure processing and handling facilities, and practices which contribute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and livestock
products as a commercial enterprise, including a «commercial horse boarding operation»
as defined in subdivision thirteen of this section, a «
timber operation»
as defined in subdivision fourteen of this section, «compost, mulch or other biomass crops»
as defined in subdivision sixteen of this section and «commercial equine operation»
as defined by subdivision seventeen of this section.
CITES success depends on
products considered, and trade in less well studied groups such
as orchids,
timber or corals are likely to be less well regulated by CITES.
The goal of this activity is to get
as many people
as possible around the world fascinated by plants and enthused about the importance of plant science for agriculture, in sustainably producing food,
as well
as for horticulture, forestry, and all of the non-food
products such
as paper,
timber, chemicals, energy, and pharmaceuticals.
Building with whole
timber —
as opposed to milling it down into «
products» — has lots of advantages, ranging from increased fire resistance (seems paradoxical but true), low embodied energy and carbon sequestration.
One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building
products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such
as Forest Stewardship Council certified
timber, bamboo and other
products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade
products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.
Products such as cross-laminated timber (CLT), nailed - laminated timber (NLT), glued - laminated timber (GLT), laminated strand lumber (LSL), laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and other large - dimensioned structural composite lumber (SCL) products are part of a bigger classification known as «mass timber
Products such
as cross-laminated
timber (CLT), nailed - laminated
timber (NLT), glued - laminated
timber (GLT), laminated strand lumber (LSL), laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and other large - dimensioned structural composite lumber (SCL)
products are part of a bigger classification known as «mass timber
products are part of a bigger classification known
as «mass
timber».
London Design Festival 2014: UK designer Sebastian Cox collaborated with Lorna Singleton — one of only four remaining experts in the UK in a wood working technique known
as swilling — to form a collection of
products from strips of softened green
timber.
Cross Laminated
Timber (CLT)-- prefabricated panels of wood whose strength, dimensional stability, rigidity, and large spans make it a replacement for structural steel or concrete — is currently far from a go - to building material in the U.S.. However, in what is likely an indicator of explosive growth, new
product offerings for North America are arising almost
as quickly
as new projects are constructed with the material.
As an all - wood mass
timber product, DowelLam does not contain any glue (aside from a minute amount of glue used for finger jointing), chemicals, VOCs, or metal nails.
We can supply and fabricate all components of a
timber structure - from mass
timber products such
as CLT and NLT, to steel connectors, cables, and castings, to integrated structural panels complete with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems pre-installed in our shop.
The same goes for premium «green»
products like certified
timber and fair trade coffee — demand is expected to decline
as consumers rein in their spending.
The Australian government estimates that $ 400 million worth of illegal
timber products are sold in the country each year often
as outdoor furniture and wood for decks.
$ 906 billion annual turnover is a risk for publicly listed companies
as a result of deforestation and the impact on
products (
timber, palm oil, soy and cattle)
Siakor and his SDI colleagues are now campaigning against a government plan that would allow
timber from agricultural concessions to be exported
as a legal, sustainably produced
product, thus accelerating the rate of deforestation.
As the world's largest processor of wood
products, China imports both legally and illegally logged
timber, driving deforestation in other countries.
The material has been used in Europe for about two decades — and about eight years in Canada — but the push for more wood in U.S. construction stemmed from an oversupply of the
product in neighboring Canada,
as well
as a desire to bring more jobs to rural areas of the Pacific Northwest, hurt by a dwindling
timber industry, he adds.