Please feel free to click on the links below to learn more about hardwood flooring:
National Wood Flooring Association:
Created in 1986, the NWFA is an organization that aids in the advancement and promotion of the wood flooring industry, while bringing valuable resources and information to its members. Today, the NWFA boasts over 3,500 members throughout the world. As a member of the NWFA, stewartfloor® has access to a diversified group of men and women who are working together to exchange ideas, advance their skills, and increase their knowledge. Stewartfloor also must adhere to the NWFA’s Standards of Professional Conduct.
Lacey Act:
The Lacey Act, protects our world’s forests, protects buyers who practice due diligence when importing wood from outside the United States, and eliminates the influx of low-cost, low-quality wood flooring produced from illegally harvested wood. The penalties for noncompliance are severe and can include the forfeiture of the material, $500,000 fines, and five years jail time. Stewartfloor practices commitment to our communities and environment by adhering to the regulations of The Lacey Act.
Center for Wood Anatomy Research:
The mission of the Center is to combine state-of-the-art knowledge and techniques in botany and wood anatomy in the search for new approaches and improvements to wood identification and to accumulate and make known information on the anatomical and other characteristics of woods that may affect their utilization potential.
AIMEX – Click here to download
Timber Exporters Association of the State of Para (AIMEX): The Agreement for Legal, Sustainable Timber, signed in Belem last July, has the great challenge of creating a new scenario for forest harvesting in the Amazon region. By this Pact, the companies take on the commitment to increasingly adopt strict practices when buying wood, thus preventing products of suspicious origin or which are non-sustainable from entering the trade chain. On the other hand, the public authority is committed to increasing the supply of timber from sustainable sources, especially through forest concessions. Click the link above to read more about AIMEX.
Brazilian Woods Database:
This database compiled by The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources – IBAMA within the scope of its institutional mission of encouraging the correct techniques of intervention in nature, is designed help divulge Brazilian woods in both domestic and international markets. This database will encourage the commercialization of those species not well known in the market and allow forest management to be carried out with a greater number of species, thereby increasing the economic viability and, hopefully, greater utilization of sustainable forest management.
Do you have a favorite hardwood resource that is not listed here? If so, contact Sean at sean@stewartfloor.com to share your resources with stewartfloor and our visitors.
