What are the Environmental Benefits of Smartpine?
Plantation timber is widely recognised as one of the best building products from an environmental perspective. Plantation timber is a renewable resource, and has significantly less embodied energy than other common building materials. Embodied energy refers to the quantity of energy required to manufacture, and supply to the point of use, a product, material or service. A comparison of the embodied energy in common building materials Please Note: Lower is better Source: Forests, Wood and Australia’s Carbon Balance Smartpine magnifies these benefits, as it increases recovery rates at both the mill and factory. Short lengths of good timber, are given a new lease of life with our advanced manufacturing technology. • Smartpine is manufactured from a sustainable resource: WA plantation grown pine As a business we dont support the use of our native forests for building purposes and we dont import endangered rainforest timber from overseas. We would rather see these fine timbers used for furn