The issue of security of supply of good quality hardwoods at an acceptable price for the medium and long term is becoming a serious concern in numerous specialty outdoor or high exposure industries such as marinas, equestrian stabling, truck bodies and outdoor furniture. This is now resulting in inferior or farmed woods being used in applications where they are not ideally suited and where they do not provide the same level of performance as their predecessors. Unfortunately it does not appear that this problem will improve.

• The continued destruction to the Worlds Rain Forests is causing an issue with supply of various hardwoods. Balau is under increasing threat as is Bankarai, Obeike and numerous other species.
  
• The World Wildlife Foundation recently confirmed that more than half of the world’s rainforests have now been destroyed.
  
• A recent documentary by the World Environmental Organisation has confirmed that the remaining rainforest in Indonesia will be gone within four years. It is being aggressively destroyed legally and replaced by palm trees for palm tree oil plantations and illegally by the peoples displaced by this aggressive replanting programme.
  
• In 2005 a number of countries exceeded their sustainable levels of de-forestation quota’s, some as early as July. However in these countries aggressive devastation continued, in many cases with the felled trees being transported illegally through neighbouring countries   
  
• In Brazil within the last two months 500,000 acres of Rainforest were sold to two of the worlds largest timber producers. This will last them approx eighteen months.
  
• The cost of these hardwoods is increasing at an alarming rate in some specialist sectors and this trend is slowly finding its way into the main stream of supply.
  
• This trend does not auger well for the medium to long term supply of these products.
  
• In the USA one of the largest timber importers and producers has recently made a substantial investment in a Wood Polymer Composite manufacturing facility. When one of the biggest wood producers in the world realises that they need to invest in alternate supply solutions it sends out a strong message.
  
• Many of the new timbers which are becoming available are coming from farmed plantations that cannot continue to meet demand. These farmed woods do not offer the quality or longevity of their naturally grown and aged predecessors.
  
  

Earth-wood is manufactured locally and offers the opportunity for security of supply for the short, medium and long term.

Earth-wood is manufactured from a fully sustainable and renewable resource.