Greenply’s Vadodara unit gets green certification

Vododara: Marking a significant development in the domestic wood panel industry, Greenply Industries’ Medium-Density Fibreboard (MDF) unit at Vadodara has achieved Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Forest Management (FSC-FM) certification, setting an industry milestone as the first MDF facility in India to attain this certification. 

Greenply has also attained the FSC® – FM (Forest Management) Certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC®) for its sustainable plantation unit located in Tizit, Nagaland, in 2021.

FSC is an international organisation that encourages accountable forest management and sustainable practices. The FSC-FM certification provides a set of standards and criteria that cover an array of ecological, communal, and economic aspects of forest management. To achieve FSC-FM certification, forest management actions must undertake a challenging assessment by autonomous certification bodies on compliance with the FSC standards and determine whether the forest management practices are environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable.

The FSC-FM certification tag on a product specifies to customers that the product comes from a sensibly managed forest.
Sanidhya Mittal, Joint Managing Director at Greenply Industries, said, “The FSC-FM certification signifies Greenply’s allegiance to sustainable practices and sensible sourcing of raw materials. It ensures that the material used in the manufacturing process at our MDF plant comes from our responsibly managed plantations. The FSC-FM certification serves as a testimony to Greenply’s commitment to reducing its environmental footprint and contributing to a greener future in the interior infrastructure industry.”
The MDF industry is expected to grow rapidly due to its versatile application.

Led by a sustainability-oriented approach, Greenply has been undertaking extensive plantation activities over the past several decades. Besides environmental protection, the plantation activity helps maintain the financial viability of the ecosystem as it generates employment for the local inhabitants too.

Greenply has planted around 24.85 million saplings till March 31, 2023, covering an area nearly of 31,714 acres of plantation land.

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