Sentences with phrase «as timber products»

Sponsors include leading British and international wood marketing and promotion organisations and associations, as well as timber product, suppliers and associated companies.

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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 timberProducts 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 timberproducts 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.