Record Growth for SFI Program

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) program recorded substantial growth in 2007, including a 750 percent increase in locations with SFI chain-of-custody certification of their ability to track products from certified forests.

“We started 2007 with 21 certificates at 48 locations, and ended it with 102 SFI chain-of-custody certifications at 408 certified locations,” says SFI President and CEO Kathy Abusow. Chain-of-custody certification means a company has a tracking system in place that identifies the amount of certified, uncertified and recycled content in the forest products it buys, uses or sells.