Richard Burbidge has announced that all its softwood stairparts have achieved environmental certification to prove the wood comes from legal and sustainable sources.
The company said all its pine stairparts have achieved FSC certification, while hemlock stairparts have gained PEFC certification. The move, the company said, was to fit in with government standards and meet the requirements of housebuilders.
Gary Carter, Burbidge’s strategic development manager, said certification for the softwood stairparts range was phase one in the company’s environmental programme. The next stage will see certification extended to oak and whte primed stairparts.
Hardwood stairparts are due to be FSC certified by the end of 2008, with work currently ongoing with the only FSC certified sapele supplier in central Africa.
Burbidge expects its entire stairparts range to be certified by next December.
